Polo Resources Limited, an international coal mining and exploration group, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, announced in December 2012 that it had made an offer to certain holders of shares and options of Signet Petroleum Ltd. to acquire their shares in Signet in return for 40 new shares in the capital of the BVI company for each Signet share acquired.
The Board of Directors approved nine unconditional acceptances from Signet shareholders who are collectively interested in 9,203,571 shares of Signet. Also, the company has approved the issue of 368,142,840 Consideration Shares to the Signet Shareholders who accepted the offer.
Polo currently holds an option to subscribe for a for a further 2.225 million shares each at an exercise price of US$1.25 and a two year warrant over 1,428,572 new Signet Shares at an exercise price of US$3.50 per share (or an adjusted price of US$0.50 per share less than the price of any new shares issued by Signet at a price lower than US$3.50. On exercise of the Signet Option and the warrant Polo will be interested in 21,516,665 Signet Shares, comprising 52.9 per cent of the issued shares of Signet.
After the first announcement, the BVI company informed that two further shareholders of Signet Petroleum Ltd have requested that their shares be acquired by Polo on the same terms as the offer to shareholders of Signet and that this request has been approved by the Board of Directors of the company. On completion of the acquisition, Polo Resources Ltd shall hold 17,863,093 Signet Shares thereby resulting in the Company owning 48.21 per cent of Signet’s issued shares.
