Dolphin Capital Investors Limited
25 March 2008
25 March 2008
Dolphin Capital Investors Limited
('the Company')
2007 Annual Report and Accounts and Exercise of Warrants
Dolphin Capital Investors Limited today announces the release of its full set of
annual and audited accounts for the year ended 31 December 2007 - these can be
viewed on the Company's website www.dolphinci.com.
Furthermore, the Directors of the Company announce that on 18 March 2008,
pursuant to a warrant deed dated 26 November 2007, Dolphin Capital Partners
Limited, the Company's Investment Manager has exercised its rights to 31,535,149
new common shares of €0.01 each in the capital of the Company and such shares
will be issued and allotted to Dolphin Capital Participations Limited, an
affiliate of the Investment Manager, with effect from 24 March 2008. The new
common shares will rank pari passu with the existing common shares of the
Company.
Application has been made for 31,535,149 common shares to be admitted to trading
on AIM. It is expected that such admission will become effective on 26 March
2008.
Following this exercise the total issued share capital of the Company will be
549,036,141 common shares.
For further information, please contact:
Dolphin Capital Investors
Miltos E. Kambourides miltos@dolphincp.com
Pierre A. Charalambides pierre@dolphincp.com
Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
(Nominated Adviser)
Philip Secrett/Fiona Kindness
Panmure Gordon Tel: +44 (0) 20 7459 3600
(Broker)
Richard Gray/Dominic Morley/Andrew Potts
Financial Dynamics, London Tel: +44 (0) 20 7831 3113
(Public Relations)
Stephanie Highett/Nicole Marino
Notes to Editors
Dolphin Capital Investors
Dolphin, currently the largest real estate investment company listed on AIM,
seeks to provide shareholders with strong capital growth combined with a low
risk profile through investing in early-stage, large-scale, leisure-integrated
residential resorts mainly in south-east Europe in partnership with world
leading designers and operators. Dolphin's shares commenced trading on AIM in
December 2005 raising £70.7 million (€104 million) at an issue price of 68p,
followed by a £202.7 million (€300 million) secondary offering at a price of 93p
per share in October 2006. In June 2007, Dolphin raised an additional £303
million (€450 million) in a follow-on issuance priced at 170p per common share.
Dolphin has to date invested approximately €550 million and committed
approximately €693 million to various projects in Greece, Cyprus, Croatia,
Turkey and the Dominican Republic. Dolphin is also the 85% owner of Aristo
Developers Plc, one of the region's largest and most experienced holiday home
developers.
Dolphin Capital Partners
DCP is an independent investment management business founded in 2004 by Miltos
Kambourides and Pierre Charalambides after leaving Soros Real Estate Partners.
The DCP professionals combine extensive local knowledge and contacts with
expertise gained at some of the world's leading financial institutions. They
specialise in providing capital to rigorously selected real estate developments
mainly in the eastern Mediterranean, typically through joint ventures with local
developers. DCP cooperates with an international and sophisticated network of
operators, designers, master-planners and marketing agents for each of its
developments.
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