Defenx plc Notification of Interest re Exit Opportunity (4677Y)

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RNS Number : 4677Y

Defenx plc

02 January 2020

2 January 2020

Defenx PLC

("Defenx", the "Company" or the "Group")

Notification of Interest re Exit Opportunity

Defenx PLC (AIM: DFX), the cyber-security software group, announces that, further to BV Tech's announcement on 4 December 2019 of the Exit Opportunity to Minority Shareholders, the Company has been notified by BV Tech that it acquired a further 138,353 Ordinary Shares on 31 December 2019 at 3 pence per share, being the purchase price pursuant to the Exit Opportunity.

Following the purchase of such Ordinary Shares, BV Tech is now interested in 30,842,192 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 79.68 per cent. of the existing issued Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company.

Following the approval of the Resolutions at the Company's General Meeting on 20 December 2019, the last day of dealings in Defenx's Ordinary Shares will be 6 January 2020, and at 7.00 a.m. on 7 January 2020, the admission to trading on AIM of Defenx's Ordinary Shares will be cancelled.

The Company notes that the Exit Opportunity, as announced by BV Tech on 4 December 2019, will remain open until 1:00 p.m. (London time) on 6 January 2020.

Further details of the Cancellation are set out in the Circular posted to shareholders and available on the Company's website at https://investors.defenx.com.

Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meaning as those used in the Company's announcement of 4 December 2019.

Enquiries

 
Defenx PLC 
 Anthony Reeves - Interim Executive Chairman             020 3198 9414 
 
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated and Financial Adviser 
 to the Company) 
 Richard Tulloch / Stuart Faulkner / James Bellman       020 7409 3494 
 
WH Ireland (Broker to the Company) 
 Adrian Hadden / James Sinclair-Ford 
 Melvyn Brown (Sales & Trading)                          020 7220 1666 
 
IFC Advisory (Financial PR and IR) 
 Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring / Florence Chandler       020 3934 6630 
 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.

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