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Acquisition of DENIS
AFROCENTRIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number: 1988/000570/06)
JSE Code: ACT
ISIN: ZAE000078416
(“AfroCentric” or “the Company”)
ACQUISITION OF DENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS HOLDINGS PROPRIETARY LIMITED
(“DENIS”) BY AFROCENTRIC FROM EOH ABANTU PROPRIETARY LIMITED (“THE SELLER”)
1. INTRODUCTION
AfroCentric shareholders (“Shareholders”) are advised that AfroCentric and its subsidiary,
AfroCentric Healthcare (RF) Proprietary Limited (the “Purchaser”), have entered into a share
sale agreement (the “Agreement”) with the Seller to acquire all of the shares in Denis at a
purchase consideration of R170 million on the terms and conditions set out below (the
“Acquisition”).
2. RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND TO THE ACQUISITION
Afrocentric is invested in a number of healthcare services segments in both the public and
private healthcare markets in South Africa, with expanding operations and related applications
in wholesale pharmaceutical supply, national chronic medication distribution and disease
management in addition to its medical scheme administration and managed care services
division, Medscheme, with its complementary co-ordinating business units.
Denis provides healthcare technology capabilities that offers dental benefit and dental claims
risk management solutions and has the following subsidiaries, (collectively “Denis Group”):
2.1 Dental Information Systems Proprietary Limited;
2.2 Dental Insurance Administrators Proprietary Limited, which has dental benefit
management agreements with certain medical schemes (collectively “Insurance
Agreements”);
2.3 Denis Underwriting Managers Proprietary Limited; and
2.4 Riverbend Trade and Invest 38 Proprietary Limited, which owns the following
properties:
- Section Number 12 in the scheme known as The Forum, Montague Gardens
Milnerton Municipality, Cape Town, Western Cape; and
- Portion 1 of Erf 4172, Garsfontein Extension 3 Township, Registration Division JR,
Province of Gauteng.
The Acquisition is consistent with AfroCentric’s growth objectives in the health sector.
3. THE ACQUISITION
3.1 Effective date of the Acquisition
The Acquisition will become effective on the completion date, which will be subject to the date
of fulfilment of the conditions precedent detailed in paragraph 3.4 herein, but shall not be later
than 31 May 2020, unless the parties so agree (the “Completion Date”).
3.2 The Seller:
The seller of the Denis Group is EOH Abantu Proprietary Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary
of EOH Holdings Limited, a company listed on the stock exchange operated by JSE Limited
(“EOH”).
3.3 The Consideration
The purchase consideration is the amount of R170 million cash which will be payable as
follows:
3.3.1 The amount of R153.5 million shall be paid in cash to the Seller on the Completion Date; and
3.3.2 The amount of R16.5 million (the "Escrow Amount") shall be paid into escrow on the
Completion Date to be paid to the Seller after expiry of a period of 18 months from the
Completion Date, subject to any claims that may be lodged by the Purchaser against the Seller
in terms of the Agreement.
3.4 Conditions precedent
The Acquisition is subject to, inter alia, fulfilment or waiver, on or before 30 April 2020, of the
following outstanding conditions precedent:
• regulatory approvals of the Acquisition including by, and to the extent that such
approval may be required, the competition authorities;
• the consent of the counterparties to certain Insurance Agreements for the Acquisition;
• key employees of the Denis Group entering into employment contracts with the
Purchaser;
• full and final settlement of the intra-group loan funding between the Denis Group and
EOH and its subsidiaries as well as the full and final release of the Denis Group from
all obligations that each of them may have pursuant to such EOH intra-group loan
funding;
• the entry into an interim services agreement between EOH Abantu and Denis
regulating the provision of certain shared services (including, inter alia, payroll and IT
services) by EOH Abantu to the Denis Group for a transitional period of 12 months;
and
• the entry into an escrow agreement between EOH Abantu, AfroCentric and an escrow
agent governing the terms and conditions upon which the escrow agent shall hold the
Escrow Amount.
3.5 Warranties and indemnities
The Seller has given the Purchaser certain warranties and indemnities that are usual in
transactions of this nature. In terms of the Agreement payment of the purchase consideration
by the Purchaser in terms of paragraph 3.3 above is guaranteed by AfroCentric.
4. PROFITS AND NET ASSET VALUE ATTRIBUTABLE TO DENIS
The post-tax profit attributable to the business of the Denis Group, as extracted from the most
recent financial results of the Seller for the year ended 31 July 2019, was R34 816 301. The
value of the consolidated net assets attributable to the Denis Group as at 31 July 2019 was
R145 424 209.
5. CATEGORISATION
The Acquisition constitutes a Category II transaction in terms of the JSE Limited Listings
Requirements and does not require shareholder approval.
Johannesburg
13 December 2019
Sponsor
Sasfin Capital (a member of the Sasfin Group)
Legal Advisor
Glyn Marais Incorporated
Date: 13-12-2019 09:00:00
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