Fusion Antibodies PLC Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights (3627Z)

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RNS Number : 3627Z

Fusion Antibodies PLC

21 May 2021

21 May 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, has been notified of the exercise of options over ordinary shares of 4p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") by a director and certain employees of the Company.

Richard Buick, Chief Technical Officer, has exercised 125,000 options at an exercise price of 4p per option. Following this exercise, Mr Buick will hold 611,250 Ordinary Shares, equivalent to 2.37% of the Company's issued share capital as enlarged by today's option exercises.

A further 43,334 options have been exercised by certain employees of the Company at an exercise price of 54.5p.

The options with an exercise price of 4p were issued under the Company's historic option scheme and those with a 54.5p exercise price were issued pursuant to the Company's EMI Employee Share Option Scheme.

Application for admission to trading and total voting rights

The 168,334 new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing ordinary shares. Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"), which is expected to become effective on 27 May 2021.

On Admission, the issued share capital of the Company will comprise 25,818,278 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 25,818,278. 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.

The following notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, gives further details.

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                        Richard Buick 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status             Chief Technical Officer 
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 b)   Initial notification        Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)   Name                        Fusion Antibodies plc 
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 b)   LEI                         213800KBAYRC9VOQ9V39 
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 4    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
       (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
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 a)   Description of the          Options over ordinary shares of 4p 
       financial instrument,       each in Fusion Antibodies plc 
       type of instrument          Identification code (ISIN) for Fusion 
       Identification code         Antibodies plc ordinary shares: GB00BDQZGK16 
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 b)   Nature of the transaction   Exercise of options 
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 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)        Price(s)     Volume(s) 
                                     4p 
                                      exercise 
                                      price       125,000 
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 d)   Aggregated information      N/A 
       - Aggregated volume 
       - Price 
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 e)   Date of the transaction     20 May 2021 
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 f)   Place of the transaction    Outside a trading venue 
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Enquiries:

 
 Fusion Antibodies plc                                                   www.fusionantibodies.com 
 Richard Jones, Chief Executive Officer                                           Via Walbrook PR 
  James Fair, Chief Financial Officer 
 
 Allenby Capital Limited                                                      Tel: [phone] 
                                                                                             5656 
 James Reeve (Corporate Finance) 
  Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking) 
 
 Walbrook PR                                  Tel: [phone] or [e-mail] 
 Anna Dunphy                                                                 Mob: [phone] 
                                                                                              001 
 Paul McManus                                                                Mob: [phone] 
                                                                                              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, blue-chip 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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