TIDMNWR

RNS Number : 4687G

New World Resources Plc

08 August 2016

 
 TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES(i) 
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 1. Identity of the issuer or                                   New World Resources Plc 
  the underlying issuer                                          ("NWR") 
  of existing shares to which 
  voting rights are 
  attached: (ii) 
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 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate 
  box or boxes): 
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 An acquisition or disposal of voting rights 
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 An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial 
  instruments which may result in the acquisition 
  of shares already issued to which voting rights 
  are attached 
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 An acquisition or disposal of instruments with 
  similar economic effect to qualifying financial 
  instruments 
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 An event changing the breakdown of voting rights 
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 Other (please                                              Conversion of EUR 6,751,036 Convertible       X 
  specify):                                                 Notes due 2020 into 105,261,829 
                                                            NWR A Ordinary Shares 
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 3. Full name of person(s)                                    Ashmore Investment Management 
  subject to the                                               Limited 
  notification obligation: 
  (iii)                                                        Ashmore Investment Advisors 
                                                               Limited 
 
                                                               Ashmore SICAV in respect of 
                                                               Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets 
                                                               Corporate Debt Fund 
 
                                                               Ashmore Emerging Markets Corporate 
                                                               High Yield Fund Limited 
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 4. Full name of shareholder(s) 
  (if different from 3.):(iv)                                   ARIA Co Pty Ltd, as trustee 
                                                                for the ARIA Alternative Assets 
                                                                Trust 
 
                                                                Ashmore Emerging Markets Corporate 
                                                                High Yield Fund Limited 
 
                                                                Ashmore Emerging Markets Distressed 
                                                                Debt Fund Limited 
 
                                                                Ashmore Funds, a Massachusetts 
                                                                Business Trust, on behalf 
                                                                of Ashmore Emerging Markets 
                                                                Corporate Debt Fund 
 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV in respect of 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets 
                                                                Debt Fund 
 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV in respect of 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets 
                                                                High Yield Corporate Debt 
                                                                Fund 
 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV in respect of 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets 
                                                                Corporate Debt Fund 
 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV in respect of 
                                                                Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets 
                                                                Total Return Fund 
 
                                                                City National Rochdale Fixed 
                                                                Income Opportunities Fund 
 
                                                                Northrop Grumman Pension Master 
                                                                Trust 
 
                                                                Eli Lilly & Company as named 
                                                                fiduciary of the Lilly Retirement 
                                                                Plan Master Trust 
 
                                                                Ashmore Emerging Markets Debt 
                                                                Fund 
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 5. Date of the transaction                                   5 August 2016 
  and date on 
  which the threshold is 
  crossed or 
  reached: (v) 
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 6. Date on which issuer                                      5 August 2016 
  notified: 
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 7. Threshold(s) that is/are                                  The aggregate percentage of 
  crossed or                                                   voting rights held has decreased 
  reached: (vi, vii)                                           from 26.0% to 25.0% and therefore 
                                                               a threshold of more than 1% 
                                                               has been crossed (see 13. 
                                                               Additional information below). 
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8. Notified details: 
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A: Voting rights attached to shares (viii, ix) 
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Class/type    Situation previous                  Resulting situation after the 
 of            to the triggering                   triggering transaction 
 shares        transaction 
 
 if possible 
 using 
 the ISIN 
 CODE 
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              Number            Number            Number         Number of voting              % of voting 
               of                of                of shares      rights                        rights (x) 
               Shares            Voting 
                                 Rights 
------------  ----------------  ----------------  -------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------- 
                                                  Direct         Direct         Indirect       Direct       Indirect 
                                                                  (xi)           (xii) 
------------      ------------    ------------    -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
A ORD 
EUR0.0004 
GB00B42CTW68 
              ----------------  ----------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
Ashmore 
SICAV 
in respect 
of Ashmore 
SICAV 
Emerging 
Markets 
Corporate 
Debt Fund 
(managed 
by Ashmore 
Investment 
Management 
Limited)      609,194,311       609,194,311       609,194,311    609,194,311                   12.4% 
              ----------------  ----------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
Other 
shareholders 
managed by 
Ashmore 
Investment 
Management 
Limited       301,176,021       301,176,021       301,176,021    301,176,021                   6.1% 
              ----------------  ----------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
Ashmore 
Emerging 
Markets 
Corporate 
High Yield 
Fund Limited 
(managed 
by Ashmore 
Investment 
Advisors 
Limited)      194,705,120       194,705,120       194,705,120    194,705,120                   4.0% 
              ----------------  ----------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
Other 
shareholders 
managed by 
Ashmore 
Investment 
Advisors 
Limited       123,434,611       123,434,611       123,434,611    123,434,611                   2.5% 
              ----------------  ----------------  -------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ---------- 
 
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments 
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Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
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Type of           Expiration      Exercise/                        Number of voting                % of voting 
financial          date            Conversion                       rights that                     rights 
instrument         (xiii)          Period (xiv)                     may be 
                                                                    acquired if 
                                                                    the 
                                                                    instrument 
                                                                    is 
                                                                    exercised/ 
                                                                    converted. 
----------------  --------------  -------------------------------  ------------------------------  ------------------- 
 
 
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect 
 to Qualifying Financial Instruments (xv, xvi) 
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Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
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Type of         Exercise        Expiration      Exercise/        Number of voting                % of voting 
financial        price          date            Conversion        rights instrument               rights (xix, 
instrument                      (xvii)          period            refers to                       xx) 
                                                (xviii) 
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                                                                                                 Nominal      Delta 
--------------  --------------  --------------  ---------------  ------------------------------  -----------  -------- 
 
Various funds and accounts managed or advised by Ashmore 
 Investment Management Limited and Ashmore Investment 
 Advisors Limited (the "Ashmore Funds") hold EUR6,3712,732 
 in aggregate principal amount of the EUR150,000,000 
 4.00 per cent./8.00 per cent. Mandatory Convertible 
 Notes due 2020 (the "Notes") issued by New World Resources 
 N.V. (the "Issuer"). The Notes convert into new or existing 
 ordinary shares in NWR ("Parent Ordinary Shares"). As 
 the Issuer, rather than the Ashmore Funds, has the sole 
 right to determine whether to deliver new or existing 
 Parent Ordinary Shares on conversion of Notes, details 
 of the number of Parent Ordinary Shares underlying the 
 Notes held by the Ashmore Funds are not included in 
 this notice. 
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Total (A+B+C) 
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Number of voting rights                             Percentage of voting rights 
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1,228,510,063                                       24.9% 
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 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the 
  voting rights and/or the 
  financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: 
  (xxi) 
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 Ashmore Investment Management Limited acts as investment 
  manager with full investment discretion and effective 
  voting control of the following entities, which hold 
  A Ordinary Shares in the issuer: 
   *    Aria Co Pty Ltd as trustee for Aria Alternative 
        Assets Trust 
 
 
   *    Ashmore SICAV in respect of Ashmore SICAV Emerging 
        Markets Debt Fund 
 
 
   *    Ashmore SICAV in respect of Ashmore SICAV Emerging 
        Markets Corporate Debt Fund 
 
 
   *    Ashmore SICAV in respect of Ashmore SICAV Emerging 
        Markets High Yield Corporate Debt Fund 
 
 
   *    Ashmore SICAV in respect of Ashmore SICAV Emerging 
        Markets Total Return Fund 
 
 
   *    City National Rochdale Fixed Income Opportunities 
        Fund 
 
 
   *    Eli Lilly & Company as named fiduciary of the Lilly 
        Retirement Plan Master Trust 
 
 
   *    Northrop Grumman Pension Master Trust 
 
 
 
  Ashmore Investment Advisors Limited acts as investment 
  manager with full investment discretion and effective 
  voting control of the following entities, which hold 
  A Ordinary Shares in the issuer: 
   *    Ashmore Emerging Markets Corporate High Yield Fund 
        Limited 
 
 
   *    Ashmore Emerging Markets Distressed Debt Fund Limited 
 
 
   *    Ashmore Funds, a Massachusetts Business Trust, on 
        behalf of Ashmore Emerging Markets Corporate Debt 
        Fund 
 
 
   *    Ashmore Emerging Markets Debt Fund 
 
 
 
  Aside from the holdings of A Ordinary Shares by Ashmore 
  SICAV in respect of Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Corporate 
  Debt Fund and Ashmore Emerging Markets Corporate High 
  Yield Fund Limited, none of these funds holds, individually, 
  3% or more of the voting rights of the issuer through 
  their holding of A Ordinary Shares. 
 
 Proxy Voting: 
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 10. Name of the proxy holder:                              N/A 
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 11. Number of voting rights proxy                          N/A 
  holder will cease to hold: 
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 12. Date on which proxy holder will                        N/A 
  cease to hold voting rights: 
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                                                            The voting rights percentages 
  13. Additional information:                                listed in section 8 have 
                                                             been calculated on the basis 
                                                             of 4,924,745,390 A Ordinary 
                                                             Shares in issue, being, we 
                                                             understand, the enlarged 
                                                             total voting rights as at 
                                                             the date of the transaction 
                                                             following the conversion 
                                                             of EUR 6,751,036 Convertible 
                                                             Notes due 2020 into 105,261,829 
                                                             A Ordinary Shares and other 
                                                             market conversions. 
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 14. Contact name:                                          Charlotte Henderson 
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 15. Contact telephone number:                              +44 20 3077 6271 
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