SkyePharma PLC - Shareholders Call for Extraordinary General Meeting

LONDON, Jan. 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SkyePharma PLC (LSE:SKP) ( NASDAQ: SKYE)  announces that, further to the announcement issued on 20 January 2006, the Company has received notice from certain shareholders calling for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and including a call for resolutions to remove Ian Gowrie-Smith as a director with immediate effect; to appoint Robert Thian as a director in place of Mr. Gowrie-Smith; and to remove any other person other than Robert Thian appointed as a director of the company between the date of requisition of the EGM and the date of the EGM.

The Company is currently considering this notice, and the resolutions therein, and a further announcement will be made in due course.

  For further information please contact:

  SkyePharma PLC
  Michael Ashton, Chief Executive                       [phone]
  Peter Laing, Director of Corporate Communications     [phone]

  Sandra Haughton, US Investor Relations                [phone]

  Buchanan Communications                               [phone]
  Tim Anderson / Mark Court

  About SkyePharma


SkyePharma PLC develops pharmaceutical products benefiting from world-leading drug delivery technologies that provide easier-to-use and more effective drug formulations. There are now eleven approved products incorporating SkyePharma's technologies in the areas of oral, injectable, inhaled and topical delivery, supported by advanced solubilisation capabilities. For more information, visit http://www.skyepharma.com/.

Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements and are made in reliance on the safe harbour provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Although SkyePharma believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will materialize. Because the expectations are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may vary significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements based upon a number of factors, which are described in SkyePharma's 20-F and other documents on file with the SEC. Factors that could cause differences between actual results and those implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release include, without limitation, risks related to the development of new products, risks related to obtaining and maintaining regulatory approval for existing, new or expanded indications of existing and new products, risks related to SkyePharma's ability to manufacture products on a large scale or at all, risks related to SkyePharma's and its marketing partners' ability to market products on a large scale to maintain or expand market share in the face of changes in customer requirements, competition and technological change, risks related to regulatory compliance, the risk of product liability claims, risks related to the ownership and use of intellectual property, and risks related to SkyePharma's ability to manage growth. SkyePharma undertakes no obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release. 

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CONTACT:  Michael Ashton, Chief Executive, [phone], or Peter

Laing, Director of Corporate Communications, [phone], or Sandra

Haughton, US Investor Relations, [phone], all of SkyePharma PLC; or

Tim Anderson, or Mark Court, both of Buchanan Communications,

[phone] 



Web site:  http://www.skyepharma.com/ 

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