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FRO - Completion of an equity issue of NOK 1,071 million
Frontline Ltd. (the "Company" or "Frontline") has today successfully
completed a private placement of a total of three million new shares
to a subscription price of NOK 357 per share. Gross proceeds from the
equity issue amounted to NOK 1,071 million (equivalent to approx. USD
210 million).
The share capital of Frontline Ltd. following this issue amounts to
USD 194,646,255 represented by 77,858,502 ordinary shares of USD 2.5
par value. Each ordinary share in Frontline Ltd. has one vote in the
company's Shareholders Meeting.
The net proceeds from the private placement will be used to finance
the acquisition of the five double hull suezmax tankers and as
settlement for the delivery of shares in Overseas Shipholding Group
Inc. currently covered by forward contracts.
Hemen Holding Limited, a company indirectly controlled by Frontline's
chairman John Fredriksen, guaranteed the subscription of 2.3 million
shares and was allocated a total of 225,000 shares. No compensation
was received for the underwriting. Hemen Holding Limited will after
this control a total of 26,304,053 shares constituting 33.8 percent
of the issued share capital in the company.
The share issue was lead managed by Carnegie ASA, with Fearnley Fonds
ASA, DnB NOR Markets and Dahlman Rose & Co LLC as co-lead managers.
Frontline Ltd.
June 26, 2008
Hamilton, Bermuda
For further enquiries:
Inger M. Klemp: Chief Financial Officer, Frontline Management AS,
+47 23 11 40 00
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements. These
statements are based upon various assumptions, many of which are
based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including Frontline
management's examination of historical operating trends. Although
Frontline believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made,
because assumptions are inherently subject to significant
uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to
predict and are beyond its control, Frontline cannot give assurance
that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or
intentions.
Important factors that, in the Company's view, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those discussed in this press
release include the strength of world economies and currencies,
general market conditions including fluctuations in charter hire
rates and vessel values, changes in demand in the tanker market as a
result of changes in OPEC's petroleum production levels and world
wide oil consumption and storage, changes in the Company's operating
expenses including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs,
changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by
regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future
litigation, general domestic and international political conditions,
potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political
events, and other important factors described from time to time in
the reports filed by the Company with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission.
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