Fusion Antibodies - Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights
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Fusion Antibodies PLC
08 March 2021
Fusion Antibodies plc
("Fusion" or the "Company")
Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights
Fusion Antibodies plc (AIM: FAB), specialists in pre-clinical antibody discovery,
engineering and supply for both therapeutic drug and diagnostic applications,
announces that it has made an application to the London Stock Exchange for
the admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") of 48,334 new ordinary shares
of 4p each in the Company ("New Ordinary Shares"). The New Ordinary
Shares are being issued pursuant to the exercise of options by an employee
of the Company. 25,000 of the options were issued under the Company's
historic option scheme with an exercise price of 4p and 23,334 of the options
were issued pursuant to the Company's EMI Employee Share Option Scheme
with an exercise price of 54.5p. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu
in all respects with the Company's existing ordinary shares and Admission is
expected to become effective on 12 March 2021.
Total Voting Rights
On Admission, the issued share capital of the Company will
comprise 25,610,359 ordinary shares of 4 pence each with one voting right
per share ("Ordinary Shares"). The Company does not hold any Ordinary
Shares in treasury. Therefore, from Admission, the total number of Ordinary
Shares and voting rights in the Company will be 25,610,359. From
Admission, the above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as
the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share
capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules.
Enquiries:
Fusion Antibodies plc
Richard Jones, Chief Executive Officer
James Fair, Chief Financial Officer
www.fusionantibodies.com
Via Walbrook PR
Allenby Capital Limited
James Reeve / Asha Chotai (Corporate Finance)
Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking)
Walbrook PR
Anna Dunphy
Paul McManus
Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780
or fusion@walbrookpr.com
Mob: +44 (0)7876 741 001
Mob: +44 (0)7980 541 893
About Fusion Antibodies plc
Fusion is a Belfast based contract research organisation ("CRO") providing a
range of antibody engineering services for the development of antibodies for
both therapeutic drug and diagnostic applications.
The Company's ordinary shares were admitted to trading on AIM on 18
December 2017. Fusion provides a broad range of services in antibody
generation, development, production, characterisation and optimisation.
These services include antigen expression, antibody production, purification
and sequencing, antibody humanisation using Fusion's proprietary
CDRx TM platform and the production of antibody generating stable cell lines
to provide material for use in clinical trials. Since 2012, the Company has
successfully sequenced and expressed over 250 antibodies and successfully
completed over 200 humanisation projects and has an international, bluechip client base, which has included eight of the top 10 global pharmaceutical
companies by revenue.
The Company was established in 2001 as a spin out from Queen's University
Belfast. The Company's mission is to enable pharmaceutical and diagnostic
companies to develop innovative products in a timely and cost-effective
manner for the benefit of the global healthcare industry. Fusion Antibodies
provides a broad range of services in antibody generation, development,
production, characterisation and optimisation.
Fusion Antibodies growth strategy is based on combining the latest
technological advances with cutting edge science to deliver new platforms
that will enable Pharma and Biotech companies get to the clinic faster, with
the optimal drug candidate and ultimately speed up the drug development
process.
The global monoclonal antibody therapeutics market was valued at $135.4
billion in 2018 and is forecast to surpass $212.6 billion in 2022, an increase
at a CAGR of 12.0 per cent. for the period 2018 to 2022. In 2017, seven of the
world's ten top selling drugs were antibody-based therapeutics with the
combined annual sales of these drugs exceeding $63.2 billion.
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