Find information about transferring or selling your Molten Ventures VCT shares below.

If you would like to transfer your shares please fill out the Stock Transfer Form and return it together with your share certificate to our Registrar, City Partnership (UK) Limited. If you have any questions please contact City Partnership by email or call 01484 240 910. Please note Stamp Duty may apply.

If you would like to sell your shares please instruct your stockbroker to contact the VCTs broker Panmure Liberum Ltd (by telephoning 020 7886 2716 or 0208 7886 2717) who acts as the Company’s corporate broker, and maintains a list of potential sellers to be contacted when the next buyback is undertaken by the Company. The VCT does not buy back shares directly from investors but has a buyback policy through the London Stock Exchange. 

You may have a share certificate in a prior name of the VCT (please see the list below). The Registrars inform us that at the present time (July 2025) all share certificates in previous names remain valid and therefore would be honoured for a sale or transfer of shares.

A precis of the buyback policy is as follows:
The Company has from time to time bought back its Ordinary Shares for cancellation. The Board will agree the price at which such buybacks are undertaken which will not be more than 95.0% of the last published NAV for the Ordinary Shares although the Board may decide to buy back shares at their discretion at a larger discount subject to VCT regulations, liquidity and the Listing Rules.

Please note that the VCT has issued shares under the prior name of the VCT being:

1. Downing Street VCT plc from 26 August 1997 to 20 October 1997;
2. Elderstreet Downing VCT plc from 20 October 1997 to 26 January 2005;
3. Elderstreet VCT plc from 26 January 2005 to 7 December 2017;
4. Elderstreet Draper Esprit VCT plc from 7 December 2017 to 10 January 2019;
5. Draper Esprit VCT plc from 10 January 2019 to 4 February 2022; and
6. Molten Ventures VCT plc from 4 February 2022 to date.