CHENNAI, India, June 28, 2024 — Sify Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: Sify) (the “Company”), a leading integrated information communications technology (or ICT) Solutions and Services provider in India, today announced that its recent rights offering was over-subscribed.
The subscription period for the equity share rights expired at 6:00 p.m. (Chennai, India time) on June 21, 2024. The subscription period for the American Depositary Share (“ADS”) rights expired at 2:15 p.m. New York Time on June 21, 2024. Subscription rights that were not exercised prior to the end of the subscription period have expired. Any excess subscription payments received which remain with the Company or Citibank, N.A., acting as ADS Rights Agent, will be returned to the applicable holders.
The Company expects to issue an aggregate of 190,268,698 equity shares and 59,730,265 ADSs (each representing one equity share) pursuant to the exercise of subscription rights during the rights offering, raising gross proceeds of approximately $30 million before any expenses of the rights offering. Following the issuance of the new equity shares and ADSs, the Company will have 433,331,423 equity shares outstanding, including equity shares represented by ADSs (and which includes the 13,262,908 ADSs to be issued as part of the over-subscription right). The net proceeds of the rights offering are expected to be used for expansion of the business for developing Network Centric Services, Data Center services, Digital Services and for general corporate purposes.
The 13,262,908 ADSs to be issued as part of the over-subscription right were allocated on a pro-rata basis among rights holders who exercised their over-subscription rights based on the number of additional equity shares or ADSs each rights holder subscribed for pursuant to its over-subscription right.
Delivery of the new equity shares subscribed for in the rights offering is expected to be made on or about July 5, 2024. Delivery of the new ADSs subscribed for in the rights offering is expected to be made on or about July 9, 2024.
Other Important Information
A prospectus relating to the rights offering was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 3, 2024 and is available on the website of the SEC at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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SOURCE Sify Technologies Ltd.
