Australian Pacific Coal in $100m raise; Tinkler out, Latimore in
What a difference a few days can make. Just 10 days ago, everyone was watching ASX-listed Hunter Valley coal play Australian Pacific Coal for Nathan Tinkler’s comeback after he made a 30¢ a share takeover bid with a handful of backers. Fast forward to this morning and last week’s interloper, Matt Latimore’s M Resources, seems to have stitched a deal with the board.
Evolution nabs Terracom block at 80c a share
Stockbroker Evolution Capital had its hands on nearly 40 million Terracom shares on Monday morning and was seeking buyers at 80¢ a share. The stock, worth about 5 percent of the coal miner, was being sold to institutional investors on behalf of OCP Asia. The trade’s expected to cross prior to the market open. The block had been subject to pitching from a handful of brokers in the past fortnight. The deal was at a 1.5¢ discount from the last close.
Fertiliser chemicals biz Minbos Resources in $20m placement
Listed ammonia and phosphate explorer Minbos Resources was asking investors to chip in for a $20 million share placement, telling them it had already cornerstoned$15 million. The two-tranche placement, of which $14.45 million was under the company’s existing placement capacity, was priced at 11¢ a share, an 18 per cent discount to the last close. It had room for $5 million in oversubscriptions, according to the term sheet. Potential investors were told Minbos had locked in $15 million of cornerstone commitments. Of this, the term sheet said, $10.5 million was from an entity controlled by the chairman of Shanghai Putailai New Energy, the world’s largest battery anode producer.
TerraCom investor clears out in block trade
Listed explorer TerraCom Resources said goodbye to an ex-substantial shareholder in an after-market trade on Thursday. A line of 29.1 million TerraCom shares changed hands at 61¢ a share, the same as Thursday’s closing price. That’s 4 percent of TerraCom’s register or about $17.8 million. Fund manager sources said Evolution Capital handled the trade. Fingers were pointing to Asian investor OCP Group as the seller, given the 29.1 million block of shares matched almost exactly with OCP’s leftover holding in Terracom.
Listed helium explorer Grand Gulf raising $8m
Listed helium explorer Grand Gulf Energy was asking investors for $8 million Thursday morning to spend on its exploration wells in Utah and for working capital. The offer was priced at 4.4¢ a share, a 10.2 percent discount from the last traded price. It included a one-for-three attaching option with an 8¢ strike price and three-year expiry.
