Premiere Horizon Alliance Corporation (PHA) announced today that it has issued a Put Option Notice to LDA Capital Limited (LDA) in accordance with the provisions of the Put Option Agreement between PHA and LDA.
PHA disclosed on 21 July 2021 that its Board of Directors approved a Put Option Agreement (POA) with LDA, a global investment group, to provide PHA with up to Two Billion Five Hundred Million Pesos (PhP2,500,000,000) in committed equity capital over the next thirty-six months. In addition, the Board also approved the grant of a Call Option to LDA, which allows the Investor to purchase up to 133 million (133,000,000) common shares of the Company at an exercise price of PhP2.26 per share exercisable any time during the term of the Agreement.
The completion of the equity funding is subject to the subscription of the new shares by LDA, amounting to a maximum of One Hundred Ninety Million (190,000,000) new shares under the Put Option Notice. This is equivalent to 800% of the average daily volume in the last fifteen trading days. Under the Agreement, PHA can put up to 1000% of this average volume. The new shares will be issued at an issue price determined by the Volume Weighted Average Price (WVAP) of the Company’s shares during a period of thirty (30) consecutive trading days, subject to certain adjustments specified in the agreement. Consequently, PHA transferred One Hundred Ninety Million (190,000,000) listed shares to LDA as Collateral Shares for the Put Option Notice transaction. In addition, Twenty Million (20,000,000) shares were transferred to an Options Shares Securities Account of LDA to satisfy PHA’s obligations to sell options shares and to secure the payment of any portion of the commitment fee. The security shares were provided by the group of Mr. Marvin C. Dela Cruz and Mr. Augusto Antonio C. Serafica, Jr. on behalf of PHA.
PHA is well positioned and is within the cusp of achieving a positive head start in growing values for its countryside projects given the expected economic recovery in the Philippines and Asia in 2022. Furthermore, it was earlier announced that PHA will be included in the services index of the Philippine Stock Exchange effective 16 August 2021.
LDA’s investment in Premiere Horizon is a vote of confidence to the growth prospects of both PHA and the Philippines. PHA is one of the growth companies that LDA is funding to grow the fintech partnership with SPT including the highly competitive business of Digital Banking. The funds will also be used for the expansion of its project in real estate through its subsidiaries West Palawan Premiere and Goshen Land Capital, as well as new investments in mining given the positive growth prospects of basic metal commodities.
Some of LDA’s similar investments yielded great results of increase in shareholder values in companies like BrainChip, a leading provider of ultra-low power high performance AI technology in Australia which has seen its share price grow from AUD 0.175 to AUD 0.54 since it signed up the agreement with LDA. Another company is BBX Minerals Limited, a mineral exploration and technology company listed also on the Australian Securities Exchange which has seen its share price grow from AUD 0.135 to AUD 0.23 since the funding was announced. |