Pearl Asian Mining Industries (PAIM) Issues Clarification on 90% Buyback of Its Common Shares and Conversion of Debentures to Common Stock; Also Announces a Visit by USA Shareholder to the 'Operation Cagayan De Oro' Gold Minesite
Business Wire - July 12, 2006 3:35 PM ET
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Pearl Asian Mining Industries, Inc. (OTC: PAIM) announced that it is close to completing the buyback of approximately 27,000,000,000 or 90% of its issued and outstanding common shares using a convertible debenture (CD). PAIM has transferred to DTCC CD notes with a face value of approximately US$27,000,000.00 which DTCC received approximately June 21, 2006. However, PAIM has not received any of the 27,000,000,000 common shares subject of the buyback.
DTCC should be in the process of sending to PAIM 90% of the common and outstanding shares in exchange for the CDs. Although PAIM has set the buyback/exchange date for June 15, 2006, some confusion has occurred as the brokerages seem to have not been sufficiently informed by their clearing houses via DTCC to segregate 90% of all common shares held. As a result, some brokerages have erroneously included in the buyback shares purchased after the buyback/exchange date of June 15, 2006. In view of this, PAIM is advising all shareholders to check their accounts and immediately bring to their brokers' attention any discrepancies or errors.
Any shares bought and sold in the market now should only be the remaining 10%, although some of DTCC's participants, i.e. brokers, have failed to notify their clients, which has resulted in many shareholders selling shares short, which they thought were still available from the 90%. Pearl Asian advises shareholders who may have unintentionally sold short on PAIM shares to immediately contact their brokers to work out a way to cover their positions. These shares sold short will be fully known once the first report after the new NASD SHO Regulation, which includes Pink Sheet stocks and took effect July 3, is released within the month. The remaining 10% of common shares in shareholders' accounts should be available for trading at any time.
To reiterate, the buyback rate is that for every common share surrendered, Pearl Asian will pay $0.001, the par value of the common shares in the form of convertible debentures, when held to the maturity of five years. The CD is to be paid on the fifth year without interest. The debentures can be converted back to common shares at a fixed rate of $0.01 per share at any time on or before maturity, upon surrender of the original CD note to the company or its transfer agent. Shareholders' accounts should indicate the value of the CD, with the proviso that said value will mature after five years.
We expect the CD to begin trading OTC on the Yellow Sheets in the near future and there should be no restrictions on selling or trading CDs after the exchange is completed.
In an unrelated development, Pearl Asian announced the availability of photos involving the visit of a shareholder to the Binasan Minesite. Visit the website at www.PearlAsianMining.com for updates and photos on Operation Cagayan de Oro including the visiting shareholder
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