Market Tracker weekly round-up—30 June 2017

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Weekly round-up of the latest corporate announcements, including LR/AIM Rules transaction by Hurricane Energy plc, Smith (DS) plc , AGM notices from Investec plc and Polar Capital Holdings plc, Reorganisations by Solo Oil plc, Secondary offers by Hurricane Energy plc, DS Smith plc, Playtech plc, Animalcare Group plc and a Reverse Takeover by Avingtrans plc.

New deals (and AGMs) announced:

AGMs

Announcement date	Company	Key information
30 June 2017	Investec plc	Investec has announced that its 2017 AGM will be held on 10 August 2017.
27 June 2017	Polar Capital Holdings plc	Polar Capital has announced that its 2017 AGM will be held on 26 July 2017.

LR/AIM Rules transactions

Announcement date	Company	Key information
29 June 2017	Hurricane Energy plc	Hurricane Energy plc has announced a related party transaction under the Listing Rules.
29 June 2017	Smith (DS) plc	Smith has announced a class 1 transaction under the Listing Rules.

Reorganisations

Announcement date	Company	Key information
29 June 2017	Solo Oil plc	Solo Oil announced a proposed share capital reorganisation by way of a consolidation of its existing ordinary shares. Under the proposals, every 20 existing ordinary shares will be consolidated into one new ordinary share of 20 pence each. The board considers that it is in the best interests of the company's long term development as a public quoted company to have a more manageable number of issued ordinary shares and to a level which is more in line with other comparable AIM-traded companies.

Reverse Takeovers

Announcement date	Company	Key information
30 June 2017	Avingtrans plc acquisition of Hayward Tyler Group plc	Avingtrans has announced the proposed acquisition of Hayward Tyler. The acquisition constitutes a reverse takeover for the purposes of the AIM rules and is therefore subject to Avingtrans shareholder approval.

Secondary offers

Announcement date	Issuer	Key information
29 June 2017	Hurricane Energy plc	Hurricane Energy announced a proposed placing of new ordinary shares to raise gross proceeds of a minimum of US$300 million at a price of 32 pence per placing share. The net proceeds of the placing will primarily be used by the company to fund capital expenditure in relation to the EPS development at the company's Lancaster field, West of Shetland. The placing is being conducted through an accelerated bookbuilding process.
29 June 2017	DS Smith plc	DS Smith announced that 62,637,363 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in DS Smith have been placed by Citigroup Global Markets Limited and JP. Morgan Securities plc at a price of 455 pence per placing share, raising total gross proceeds of approximately £285 million. The placing was conducted through an underwritten accelerated bookbuilding process.
26 June 2017	Playtech plc	Playtech announced that Brickington Trading Limited is proposing to sell approximately 32.0 million shares in the company, representing approximately 10.1% of the Company's issued share capital, via an accelerated bookbuild.
23 June 2017	Animalcare Group plc	Animalcare Group announced a proposed placing of approximately 8.6 million new placing shares (representing approximately 40.4% of the existing issued share capital) to raise gross proceeds of not less than £30.0 million. In addition, certain selling shareholders intend to sell up to approximately 0.8 million sale shares in the placing. The net proceeds of the placing receivable by the company will be applied in full to paying a substantial proportion of the cash component of the acquisition consideration of Ecuphar NV. The placing will be conducted through an accelerated bookbuilding process.

The weekly round-up covers all deals announced from 2pm on the Monday of the previous week until 2pm on the Monday of the current week. Any deals announced after this time will be included in the following day's round-up.

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