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BK ONE LIMITED - Announcement regarding the granting of a call option Notice of preference shareholders meeting Renewal of cautionary

Release Date: 05/11/2014 14:58
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Announcement regarding the granting of a call option
Notice of preference shareholders meeting Renewal of cautionary

BK One Limited
Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa
Registration Number: 2011/008103/06
Preference Share Code: BK1P
ISIN: ZAE000161352
“BK One” or “the Company”


Announcement regarding the granting of a call option
Notice of preference shareholders’ meeting
Renewal of cautionary announcement

1     Introduction

      BK One preference shareholders (“Shareholders”) are referred to the cautionary
      announcements published on 28 August 2014 and 10 October 214 and are advised that
      BK One has entered into a call option agreement in terms of which the Company has
      granted a call option to Pure Ocean Aquaculture Limited (“the Acquirer”) (“the Call Option”)
      to acquire the Company’s entire right, interest and title in the claims and shares held in
      Pure Ocean Aquaculture Proprietary Limited (“POA”) and claims held in Pure Ocean East
      London Proprietary Limited (“POEL”) (“the Subject Matter”).

2     Rationale for the Call Option

      As disclosed in the Annual Financials for year ended 28 February 2014, the ability for the
      company to continue as a going-concern is dependent on the procurement of adequate
      funding for working capital. Possible sources of working capital were to:

          -   sell part or whole of its respective investments; and / or

          -   recover short-term receivables from its underlying assets; and / or

          -   issue additional shares; and / or

          -   or a combination of the above.

      The directors are of the view that the out-and-out sale of the whole or part of the
      Company’s respective investments did not present, at the present time, a realistic
      alternative.

      In order to recover short-term receivables from the underlying assets, the underlying
      assets would need to be fully funded. Various methods to procure funding for the
      underlying assets were considered and the most favourable option was the Call Option as
      it was linked to providing working capital and trade finance funding for the Pure Ocean
      Group, the effect of which will stabilise them into the future while simultaneously securing
      the possibility of a liquidity event for the Company through the Call Option.

      Shareholders are also referred to the preference shareholders’ meeting held on 30
      September 2014 in terms of which the authorisation of the subscription for and allotment of
      800 authorised but unissued ordinary shares in the ordinary share capital of the Company
      was granted. The subscription for the aforementioned ordinary shares is subject to certain
      conditions precedent still to be fulfilled, however it is anticipated that these conditions will
      be fulfilled shortly. The combination of the Call Option and subscription for ordinary shares
      will in the opinion of the directors adequately provide for the working capital requirements
      of the Company for the following year.

3   Terms of the Call Option

    The terms of the Call Option are as follows:

    3.1     BK One has granted the Acquirer the Call Option for a period of two years to
            purchase the Subject Matter;

    3.2     in the event that the Acquirer exercises the Call Option, it shall issue convertible
            loan notes (“CLs”) to BK One in payment for the Subject Matter (“the Purchase
            Consideration”);

    3.3     the Acquirer shall procure a listing of itself as soon as possible after the exercise of
            the Call Option;

    3.4     the outstanding CLs shall bear interest at a rate of 2% per annum, compounded
            annually until such time as either:

            - the market capital of the Acquirer reaches US$100 million (“the Conversion
              Event”); or

            - the second anniversary of the date on which the CLs were issued by the
              Company (“the Long Stop Date”);

            whichever is the earlier (“the Conversion Date”); and

    3.5     the Company shall be entitled, at its discretion, at the Conversion Event to serve a
            conversion notice to the Acquirer to convert all CLs held by the Company into fully
            paid ordinary shares in the Acquirer at the conversion price on the Conversion Date.

4   Purchase consideration of the Call Option

    On exercise of the Call Option, the Acquirer will issue CLs in the amount of
    US$14 577 898.05 as follows:

    Subject Matter component                                               Purchase consideration
                                                                                               US$
    Loan claims in POA                                                                9 479 608.56
    Loan claims in POEL                                                               3 968 246.00
    Share equity of 131 655 050 shares in POA                                         1 130 043.49
    Total                                                                            14 577 898.05


5   Notice of preference shareholders’ meeting

    A general meeting of Shareholders of BK One will be held at 9h00 on Wednesday, 26 November 2014
    at Boundary Terraces, 3 Floor, Mill House, 1 Mariendahl Road,Newlands, Cape Town to transact the
    business as stated in the notice posted to Shareholders on 4 November 2014.
                                                                                           
    The date on which Shareholders must be recorded as such in the register maintained by
    the transfer secretaries of the Company for purposes of being entitled to attend and vote at
    the preference shareholders’ meeting as determined in terms of the Companies Act, No 71
    of 2008, is Friday, 21 November 2014.

6    Renewal of cautionary announcement

     BK One continues to be in negotiations in relation to its underlying assets, which if
     successfully concluded may have a material effect on the price of the Company’s
     securities. Shareholders are consequently advised to continue to exercise caution when
     dealing in the Company’s securities until a further announcement is made.

Cape Town

5 November 2014

Investment bank and Sponsor

Nedbank Capital

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