03 July 2008
Notification of the Capital Increase of CPNRF
(Translation)
No. TT/IM 238/2008
2 July 2008
Re: Notification of Additional Resolutions of the Investment Committee in
relation to the
Unitholders' Meeting for consideration of the Capital Increase of CPN
Retail Growth
Property Fund (CPNRF)
To: The President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Enclosures: 1. Capital Increase Report
2. Information Memorandum on Connected Transaction and the
Acquisition
and Disposition of Assets
On 25 June 2008, CPN Retail Growth Property Fund (CPNRF) (the "Fund")
by TMB
Asset Management Company Limited (the "Management Company") has notified the
resolutions
of its Investment Committee pursuant to its letter No. TT/IM 207/2008
determining the closing
date of the unitholders' register book to suspend the transfer of Investment
Units for determining
the right of unitholders to attend the unitholders' meeting or right to pass
resolutions pursuant to
circular resolutions on 10 July 2008 from 12.00 noon onwards until the meeting
is adjourned or
after the resolutions have been passed, and determining the date on which a
unitholders' meeting
will be held or the expected date for receiving resolutions from the
unitholders through circular
notice to unitholders to request for circular resolutions on 29 July 2008.
Furthermore, the
Management Company, by such letter, has notified that the expected amount of
the capital of the
Fund to be increased, the number of additional Investment Units to be issued
and offered for sale
and the value of the Investment Units to be issued and offered for sale will
be notified to the
unitholders after the Investment Committee receives the valuation reports
from the property
valuers and passes the resolutions relating to such matter, as per the details
previously informed.
By this letter, the Management Company would like to notify the
unitholders of the Fund
that on 2 July 2008 the Investment Committee's Meeting No. 4/2551 has passed
resolutions
approving the Fund to increase its capital in the amount not exceeding Baht
11,420,000,000,
from the existing capital of Baht 10,915,000,000 to the new capital of not
exceeding Baht
22,335,000,000, through the issuance and offer for sale of not exceeding
1,270,000,000
additional Investment Units at the unit value as to be determined by the
Investment Committee.
In this regard, the number of additional Investment Units to be issued and
offered for sale shall
not affect the accretion of dividend per unit which the Unitholders will
receive after the
additional investment of the FUND, to be lower than the accretion of dividend
per unit which the
Unitholders will receive from the initial investment in real properties of the
FUND, based on the
forecast for the period of quarter 4/2008 and the projection for year 2009. In
addition, the final
value of the Fund's capital increase and/or the final number of the additional
Investment Units to
be offered for sale at this time may be lower than the value of the Fund's
capital increase and the
number of additional Investment Units to be offered for sale as provided
above. The pricing
method for determining the price of the additional Investment Units offered
for sale shall be a
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bookbuilding process at a range of prices which reflect a value of the real
properties in which the
Fund will invested and will be the price that acceptable to the owner of the
real properties. The
final price of the additional Investment Units, which shall fall within the
price range, will be
fixed by taken into accounts, among other things, the following considerations:
- the prevailing market price of the Fund's Investment Units on the
Stock Exchange of
Thailand (the "SET") during the period when the additional Investment
Units are issued
and offered for sale;
- the value of the real properties provided by independent property
valuers;
- the general market conditions;
- indication of interest received from investors during the bookbuilding
process.
The additional Investment Units allotted in the rights offering and those
allotted to others
investors shall be offered at the same price.
In addition, the pricing method for determining the price of the additional
Investment Units will
determine the net proceeds that the Fund will receive from this capital
increase and will be a
factor for determining the value of the real properties to be invested by the
Fund as well. The
price, which the Fund will be investing in the real properties, will be
determined by the proceeds
which the Fund will receive from its capital increase, deducted by estimated
expenses related to
the capital increase and the additional investment in real properties. The
price of the investment
in these real properties will not be higher than the lowest price obtained
from the valuation report
of the property valuers mentioned above in excess of 20 percent. The
objectives of this capital
increase are to invest in the additional real properties, being the Real
Properties of CentralPlaza
Pinklao Project and the Real Properties of CentralPlaza Chiangmai Airport
Project, and seek
benefits therefrom with the aim to generate income and returns to the Fund and
the unitholders,
as the Management Company anticipates that these additional real properties
investment will
enhance the unitholders' opportunity to receive returns in form of increased
dividend per unit. In
addition, such investment will help decentralizing the Fund's particular
source of income.
The Investment Committee entrusted the Fund Manager to have the power to take
any action
necessary and relevant to the capital increase of the Fund in all respects,
including to determine
the terms and details, negotiate, agree, execute, deliver and/or amend any
other relevant
documents or evidence, appoint any substitute and to do any other acts to
propose the matter to
the unitholders' meeting for consideration.
The Investment Committee resolved to propose to the unitholders to consider
and approve that
the Fund shall offer for sale of the additional Investment Units in 2 portions
according to the
details as set out below.
1st Portion: To allot not less than 50 percent of the total number of the
additional Investment
Units to be issued and offered for sale for the offering for
sale to the existing
unitholders whose names appear in the register of unitholders
(Rights Offering).
The ratio of such offering is calculated from the amount of the
total number of the
Investment Units issued and offered for sale before the capital
increase of the
Fund divided by the amount of the total number of the
Investment Units to be
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issued and offered for sale in the First Portion at the unit price as to be
fixed by
the Investment Committee according to the method to be further specified. The
existing unitholders may declare their intention to buy the new Investment Units
according to their entitlement or more than their entitlement or less than their
entitlement or waive their rights to subscribe for the new Investment Units
offered
for sale at this time.
In the case that the allotment ratio according to the entitlement of the
existing
unitholders results in any of the existing unitholders having the rights to
subscribe
for a fraction of an Investment Unit that cannot be allotted as a full
Investment
Unit, such fraction of the Investment Unit shall be rounded down to the nearest
full number. The Management Company shall then combine the remaining
Investment Units from such allotment with the Investment Units which are not
subscribed for due to the existing unitholders have waived their rights or
have not
made a timely subscription or have not made a full subscription, or for any
reason
whatsoever, and offer them for sale by an allotment in the following orders:
1. In the event that there are a sufficient number of the remaining
Investment
Units under the Rights Offering portion to serve all unitholders
wishing to
subscribe for the additional Investment Units in excess of their
rights, the
remaining Investment Units shall be allotted to all of such unitholders
whishing to subscribe for the additional Investment Units in excess of
their rights pursuant to the number of Investment Units that each of such
unitholders wishes to subscribe for; or
2. In the event that the remaining Investment Units under the Rights
Offering
portion are not sufficient to serve all unitholders wishing to
subscribe for
the additional Investment Units in excess of their rights, the remaining
Investment Units will be allotted to each of unitholders wishing to
subscribe for the additional Investment Units in excess of their rights
on a
pro rata basis to the number of Investment Units to be subscribed by each
of the unitholders in excess of their rights.
3. In the event that there are remaining Investment Units under the Public
Offering portion as specified in the Second Portion, the remaining
Investment Units will be allotted to each of the existing unitholders
wishing to subscribe for the additional Investment Units in excess of
their
rights, but have not been fully allotted.
If there are Investment Units remaining from the offering for sale under 1 or 2
above, the Management Company reserves the right to offer and allot such
remaining Investment Units to specific investors under private placement basis
or
to retail investors under Public Offering basis in the Second Portion
according to
the method as it deems appropriate.
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In this regard, the existing unitholders wishing to subscribe
for the additional
Investment Units in excess of their rights shall state their
intention and pay for the
subscription price of the excess Investment Units together with
the subscription
price of the Investment Units subscribed under the Rights
Offering.
Thus, Central Pattana Public Company Limited, the major
unitholders of the Fund
and the owner of the real properties which will be invested by
the Fund, intended
to maintain the unitholding ratio in the Fund. In this regard,
such unitholding of
Central Pattana Public Company Limited shall not cause Central
Pattana Public
Company Limited and person(s) of the same group to hold the
Investment Units
of the Fund in excess of one-third of the total number of the
Investment Units
issued and sold.
The date of closure of the unitholders' register book and
suspension of transfer of
the Investment Units for the purpose of determining the
existing unitholders'
entitlement to subscribe for the additional Investment Units
issued and offered for
sale will take place after the Office of the Securities and
Exchange Commission
(the "Office of the SEC") approves the capital increase of the
Fund as proposed.
The existing unitholders will be entitled to the rights to
subscribe for additional
Investment Units after the office of the SEC approves the
capital increase of the
Fund. The Management Company will notify the SET of the date of
closure of the
unitholders' register book in due course.
2nd Portion: To allot not more than 50 percent of the total additional
Investment Units under a
private placement basis ("Private Placement") to investors who
are (i) institutional
investors and/or (ii) specific investors who are not the
existing unitholders of the
Fund under the relevant notification of the Office of the SEC
and are not
connected persons under the relevant notification of the Board
of Governors of
the Stock Exchange of Thailand; and/or to retail investors
("Public Offering").
The Management Company will allot the Investment Units under
the private
placement basis according to the demand to purchase the
Investment Units of the
institutional investors or specific investors, and will allot
the Investment Units
under the public offering basis according to small lots first
method, at the unit
price as to be determined by the Investment Committee.
In the case that the demand to purchase the Investment Units of
the subscribers
under private placement basis is overwhelming that the
Management Company is
unable to make a full allotment to all of the subscribers
according to their
subscription amount, the Management Company reserves the right
to allot the
Investment Units to the subscribers under Private Placement
basis according to
the method as the Management Company deems appropriate.
In the event that the remaining Investment Units under the
Public Offering as
specified in the Second Portion, the Management Company will
allot the
remaining Investment Units to the existing unitholders (Rights
Offering) who
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subscribed for the additional Investment Units in excess of
their rights, but have
not been fully allotted in the First Portion.
In any case, there shall not be any allotment made by the
Management Company
that will cause any subscriber or any same group of persons to
be the unitholder
holding the Investment Units of the Fund in excess of one-third
of the total
number of the Investment Units issued and sold.
The Management Company shall file an application with the Stock Exchange of
Thailand for its
approval of the listing of the additional Investment Units of the Fund as
listed securities within
30 days from the date of closing of the offer for sale of the Investment Units.
The Investment Committee entrusted the Fund Manager to have the power to take
any action
necessary and relevant to the offer for sale of such additional Investment
Units in all respects,
including to determine the terms and details, negotiate, agree, execute,
deliver and/or amend any
other relevant documents or evidence, appoint any substitute and to do any
other acts to propose
the matter to the unitholders' meeting for consideration.
The Investment Committee (while the Investment Committee members who have
interests in
making decision to enter into the transaction have been precluded from
attending the meeting and
having voting rights at the meeting in this agenda) appointed Central Pattana
Public Company
Limited, which is the owner of the additional real properties to be invested
by the Fund located
in Central Plaza Pinklao Project and a major unihtolder of the Fund, to be the
property manager
of such additional real properties.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Phiphat Phisunuwongrak
Authorized Signatory
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