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22 December 2017

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited ("Globalworth" or the "Company")

Business Update, Director Dealings & Total Voting Rights

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited ("Globalworth" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on a number of initiatives completed prior to year-end:

Acquisition of Bucharest Office Development Sites

Following the announcement on 27 November 2017, in which Globalworth provided details of its next phase of potential development projects, the Company can now announce the acquisition of two land plots, both located in the Gara Herastrau/Barbu Vacarescu corridor of Bucharest's new CBD, expected to complete in Q1-2018. The first land plot is located between the Globalworth Plaza and Green Court B assets of the Company, and is the last remaining street facing land plot on Gara Herastrau. The second land plot is located adjacent to the Company's Green Court complex. The aggregate consideration for both land plots is approximately €16m and combined they are anticipated to allow for the development of approximately 40,000 sqm of commercial (predominantly office) space, subject to relevant approvals.

Shareholding in GPRE

Globalworth, via its subsidiary Globalworth Asset Managers SRL ("GAM"), has acquired a further 3.76% shareholding in GPRE from Griffin Netherlands II B.V. and GT Netherlands III B.V., two Dutch entities indirectly controlled by Oaktree Capital Management Group LLC, in an off-market trade funded from existing cash resources at a price of PLN 5.50/share. Following this transaction, GAM's shareholding in GPRE now stands at 71.7%. This investment is in line with the Company's stated investment policy and, when aggregated with the results of the completed Tender Offer announced on 29 November 2017 and the 19 December 2017 announcement, represents a substantial transaction pursuant to the AIM Rules[1].

In respect of these recent business developments and the considerable achievements of 2017, Dimitris Raptis, Deputy CEO and Chief Investment Officer commented: "2017 has been a truly transformational year for Globalworth. We are delighted to have had the support of the international capital markets, having raised nearly €900m of new equity and debt, thus broadening our investor base, equity free float and our international reputation. We are also excited by our strategic entry into Poland and the prospect of positioning GPRE as the reference landlord and investor in the Polish office market. We go into 2018 well placed to achieve our objective of establishing Globalworth as the region's leading office investor and to build on our ambition of being the partner of choice for the wide variety of high-quality tenants in the region."

Issue of Fee Shares

In connection with the €200 million equity fundraising which was announced on 1 December 2016, the Company has now implemented the issue of the second (and final) tranche of 1,000,000 Fee Shares to Growthpoint Properties International Proprietary Limited ("GRT") and 72,963 Fee Shares to certain funds and/or accounts managed by Oak Hill Advisors (Europe), LLP and its affiliates ("Oak Hill"); and the transfer of warrants in respect of, in aggregate, 500,000 Ordinary Shares held by Zorviani Limited (a company beneficially owned by the Company's CEO Ioannis Papalekas) under the Warrant Agreement (as defined below) to GRT. Terms defined above shall have the meanings given to them in the circular dated 1 December 2016.

Transfers, and Exercises, of IPO Warrants

At the time of the Company's IPO, the Warrant Agreements (as defined in the Admission Document) were entered into with the Company's executive directors and several of the non-executive directors which, subject to the meeting of certain thresholds, would entitle them to subscribe for new Ordinary Shares at certain prices ("Ordinary Shares").

In addition to the warrant transfer between Zorviani Limited and GRT noted above, the Company has received notice from Dimitris Raptis, the Company's Deputy CEO and Chief Investment Officer, of the transfer out of 30,000 Warrants; and from Zorviani Limited, the transfer of 3,745,030 Warrants to Zakiono Limited (both of which are companies beneficially owned by the Company's CEO, Mr Papalekas).

The Warrant Agreements contain three thresholds of exercise criteria, the first set of which have now been satisfied, as a result of which the first tranche of warrants have vested. The Company has received notices of exercise from several of the warrant holders in respect of warrants to subscribe for the following number of Ordinary Shares at a price of EUR 5.00 per share:

Having received total subscription funds of EUR 8,775,050 from the warrant holders listed above, the Company has now issued and allotted 1,755,010 Warrant Shares. Following this exercise, a further 50,000 Warrants in respect of the first tranche of warrants are eligible to be exercised under the same terms at the Warrant holders' discretion. As stipulated in the Warrant Agreements, 2,830,020 IPO warrants remain unvested in two further tranches.

Admission to trading on AIM

Following the above issues of Fee Shares and Warrant Shares, application will be made for a total of 2,827,973 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to take place on 2 January 2018.

Total Voting Rights

Following the above share issues, the Company's enlarged issued share capital comprises 132,252,769 ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company, and a further 35,713 ordinary shares held in treasury.

The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 132,252,769, and this is the total number of the voting rights in the Company which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest, or a change in the interest, in the share capital of the Company under Chapter 5 of the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules as reflected in the Company's articles of incorporation.

Significant Shareholdings and Directors' Dealings

Following the above share issues:

· GRT (and its persons closely associated) has an interest in 38,679,286 ordinary shares, equivalent to 29.2 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital;

· Oak Hill Advisors* has an interest in 13,099,680 ordinary shares, equivalent to 9.9 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital;

· Mr Papalekas has an interest in 25,129,187 ordinary shares, equivalent to 19.0 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital;

· Mr Raptis has an interest in 527,834 ordinary shares, equivalent to 0.4 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital;

· Mr Alroy has an interest in 698,814 ordinary shares, equivalent to 0.5 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital.

* Certain funds and/or accounts managed by Oak Hill Advisors

The Notification of Dealing Forms provided in accordance with the requirements of MAR in relation to the transactions listed above are set out below: 

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

For further information visit www.globalworth.com or contact: 

Enquiries

Andrew Cox Tel: +44 20 3026 4027

Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Development

Jefferies (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7029 8000

Stuart Klein

Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7886 2500

Andrew Potts

Milbourne (Public Relations) Tel: +44 7903 802545

Tim Draper

About Globalworth / Note to Editors

Globalworth is an AIM-listed real estate investment company active in Central and Eastern Europe, and has become the leading office investor in the Romanian real estate market. Globalworth acquires, develops and directly manages high-quality office and logistics/light-industrial real estate assets in prime locations, through which it benefits from a strong rental income profile from high quality tenants from around the globe. With approximately 70 professionals managing it, Globalworth's portfolio, as at 30 September 2017, was valued in excess of €1 billion, of which 90% is in income-producing assets and over 80% in the office sector.

Globalworth also owns approximately 72% of Griffin Premium R.E.. N.V. ("GPRE"). GPRE is a pure-play Polish real estate platform listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange that primarily owns high-quality office and mixed-use assets located in Warsaw and across a number of other major Polish cities, notably Wroclaw, Lodz, Krakow, Gdansk and Katowice. Its portfolio comprises six office and three mixed-use (office and retail) properties. For more information on GPRE please refer to http://www.griffin-premium.com/.

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