FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, Nov. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vitru Limited, or Vitru (Nasdaq: VTRU), introduced at the moment that the 15-day interval from the date of the publication of the resolution by the General Superintendence of CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense – Brazilian antitrust authority) in the Brazilian Official Gazette approving, with none restrictions, the transactions contemplated by the funding settlement with Crescera Growth Capital Master V Fundo de Investimento em Participações Multiestratégia and Crescera Growth Capital V Coinvestimento III Fundo de Investimento em Participações Multiestratégia (“Crescera” and “Investment Agreement”, respectively) has lapsed and, pursuant to the relevant Brazilian laws, CADE’s resolution turned ultimate.
The closing of Crescera’s funding in Vitru is anticipated to happen in the fourth quarter of 2022, topic to customary closing situations. Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, Crescera has agreed to subscribe for 3,636,363 new frequent shares to be issued by Vitru for a complete consideration of R$300 million, equal to US$58.3 million primarily based on the relevant alternate price pursuant to the Investment Agreement, or roughly US$16.02 per frequent share.
As beforehand introduced, Vitru has commenced a rights providing pursuant to which it’s distributing nontransferable subscription rights to every holder of its frequent shares as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 21, 2022 (the “Record Date”). The subscription rights could also be exercised at any time throughout the subscription interval, which commenced on October 24, 2022, and ends at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on November 17, 2022. One subscription proper is being distributed for every six frequent shares held as of the Record Date, with every subscription proper exercisable for one frequent share at an train worth of US$16.02 per full frequent share. Vitru won’t situation any fractional shares upon train of any subscription rights in the rights providing, and shareholders should train subscription rights which might end in the issuance of at the least one entire frequent share to take part in the rights providing.
Crescera additionally has the choice to accumulate further frequent shares not subscribed for by Vitru’s minority shareholders in Vitru’s beforehand introduced rights providing, for as much as a most quantity equal to R$100 million much less the whole quantity obtained by Vitru from subscriptions of recent frequent shares by minority shareholders pursuant to the rights providing.
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About Vitru
Vitru is the main pure distance studying schooling group in the postsecondary distance studying market in Brazil. Through its invested corporations, Vitru supplies an entire pedagogical ecosystem targeted on hybrid distance studying expertise for undergraduates and persevering with schooling college students.
Vitru’s mission is to democratize entry to schooling in Brazil by way of a digital ecosystem and empower each scholar to create their very own profitable story.
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