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ACSL raised about ¥5.17bn selling 4.18 million new shares to non-resident investors at ¥1,237.25 each, and because that price undercut the reference level in its stock-option terms, exercise prices on eight warrant series approved between 2017 and 2026 all move down from September 9.
ACSL priced its European and Asian share offering at ¥1,310 a share for ¥5.12bn in net proceeds, but cut the defense-business allocation to ¥3.12bn from the ¥4.81bn ceiling set in its original filing two days earlier, while the ¥2bn earmarked for North America expansion stayed unchanged.
ACSL priced 4.18 million new shares at ¥1,310, a 9.97% discount to the day's benchmark, to raise an estimated ¥5.12bn net for defense-drone production capacity and a North American expansion running through December 2029.
ACSL's half-year filing shows North American drone sales rising to ¥1.02bn from ¥42.7mn a year earlier as US bans on Chinese-made drones lift its NDAA-compliant SOTEN, even as China's Ministry of Commerce placed the Tokyo firm on a watch list in June that tightens export screening for the dual-use parts it still sources from China.