19
December 2024
Oakley Capital Investments
Limited
North Sails: conversion of
preferred equity into ordinary equity
In response to positive trading momentum and strategic
acquisitions by leading action sports business North Sails,
Oakley Capital Investments Limited1 ("OCI") announces that the OCI Board has approved the
conversion of $107 million of its preferred
equity position in the business into ordinary equity,
allowing OCI to better participate in future
returns. The Board
consider the terms of the conversion to be attractive, with the
transaction effective 18 December 2024.
Following the conversion, OCI
continues to hold $77 million in preferred equity, which will
attract a coupon of 5% from 1 January 2025, and provides a pathway
to liquidity. A warrant over 5% of North Sails' ordinary equity,
due to originally mature on 30 June 2025 if the preference shares
remained, has been prorated down to 2%, reflecting the equity
conversion, and will now mature on 30 June 2026. OCI retains a
further $68 million indirect position in North Sails via its
investment in Oakley Capital Fund II.
North Sails continues to perform
well, supported by healthy order volumes, strengthening gross
margins and significant trading momentum from the America's
Cup. During the year, North Sails
completed the strategic acquisitions of
Quantum Sails and Doyle Sails, two world-leading designers and
manufacturers of high-performance sailing products.
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For
further information please contact:
Oakley Capital Limited
+44 20 7766 6900
Steven Tredget
Greenbrook Communications
Limited
+44 20 7952 2000
Rob White / Michael
Russell
Deutsche Numis (Financial Adviser
& Broker)
+44 20 7260 1000
Nathan Brown / Matt Goss
Notes:
LEI Number:
213800KW6MZUK12CQ815
1 About Oakley Capital
Investments Limited ("OCI")
OCI is a Specialist Fund Segment
("SFS") traded investment vehicle that aims to provide shareholders
with consistent long-term capital growth in excess of the FTSE
All-Share Index by providing liquid access to private equity
returns through investment in the Oakley Funds.
A video introduction to OCI is
available at https://oakleycapitalinvestments.com/videos/.
The contents of the OCI website are not
incorporated into, and do not form part of, this
announcement.
The
Oakley Funds
Oakley Capital Private Equity II,
Oakley Capital Private Equity III, Oakley Capital IV, Oakley
Capital V, Oakley Capital Origin Fund and Oakley Capital Origin II,
are unlisted lower-mid to mid-market private equity funds that aim
to provide investors with significant long-term capital
appreciation. The investment strategy of the Funds is to focus on
buy-out opportunities in industries with the potential for growth,
consolidation and performance improvement. The Oakley family of
funds also includes Oakley PROfounders Fund III and Oakley Touring
Venture Fund, which are venture capital funds focused on
investments in entrepreneur-led, disruptive, technology led
companies.
Oakley Capital, the Investment Adviser
Founded in 2002, Oakley Capital
Limited has demonstrated the repeated ability to source attractive
growth assets at attractive prices. To do this it relies on its
sector and regional expertise, its ability to tackle transaction
complexity and its deal generating entrepreneur network.
For more information on the Oakley
Fund strategies in which OCI invests, please click
here.
Important information
Specialist Fund Segment securities
are not admitted to the Official List of the Financial Conduct
Authority. Therefore, the Company has not been required to satisfy
the eligibility criteria for admission to listing on the Official
List and is not required to comply with the Financial Conduct
Authority's Listing Rules.
The Specialist Fund Segment is
intended for institutional, professional, professionally advised
and knowledgeable investors who understand, or who have been
advised of, the potential risk from investing in companies admitted
to the Specialist Fund Segment.
This announcement may include
"forward-looking statements". These forward-looking statements are
statements regarding the Company's objectives, intentions, beliefs
or current expectations with respect to, amongst other things, the
Company's financial position, business strategy, results of
operations, liquidity, prospects and growth. Forward-looking
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relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not
occur in the future. Accordingly the Company's actual future
financial results, operational performance and achievements may
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statements. Given these uncertainties, prospective investors are
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