Evaxion announces plan to implement ADS ratio change
30 December 2024 - 1:00PM
UK Regulatory
Evaxion announces plan to implement ADS ratio change
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 30, 2024 - Evaxion
Biotech A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX) (“Evaxion”), a clinical-stage TechBio
company specializing in developing AI-Immunology™ powered vaccines,
today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American
Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) to its ordinary shares, DKK 1 nominal
value (the “ADS ratio”), from the current one (1) ADS representing
ten (10) ordinary share to a new ADS ratio of one (1) ADS
representing fifty (50) ordinary shares (the “ADS ratio change”).
The ADS ratio change is expected to become effective on or about
January 13, 2025, U.S. Eastern Time (the “effective date”).
For the company's ADS holders, the change in the
ADS ratio will have the same effect as a one-for-five reverse ADS
split and is intended to further support the liquidity in the
company’s ADSs.
On the effective date, registered holders of the
company’s ADSs held in certificated form will be required on a
mandatory basis to surrender their certificated ADSs to The Bank of
New York Mellon, the depositary bank (the “depositary”), for
cancellation and will receive one (1) new ADS in exchange for every
five (5) existing ADSs then-held.
Holders of uncertificated ADSs in the Direct
Registration System (DRS) and the Depository Trust Company (DTC)
will have their ADSs automatically exchanged and need not take any
action. The exchange of every five (5) then-held (existing) ADSs
for one (1) new ADS will occur automatically at the effective date,
with the then-held ADSs being cancelled and new ADSs being issued
by the depositary bank. The company’s ADSs will continue to be
traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol
“EVAX.”
No fractional new ADSs will be issued in
connection with the change in the ADS Ratio. Instead, fractional
entitlements to new ADSs will be aggregated and sold by the
depositary and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the
fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and
expenses) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by the
depositary.
As a result of the ADS ratio change, the ADS
trading price is expected to increase proportionally, although the
company can give no assurance that the ADS trading price after the
ADS ratio change will be proportionally equal to or greater than
the previous’ ADS trading price prior to the change or that the
ratio change will have any effect on the liquidity in the company’s
ADSs.
Contact information
Evaxion Biotech A/S
Mads Kronborg
Vice President, Investor Relations & Communication
+45 53 54 82 96
mak@evaxion.ai
About EVAXION
Evaxion Biotech A/S is a pioneering TechBio company based upon its
AI platform, AI-Immunology™. Evaxion’s proprietary and scalable AI
prediction models harness the power of artificial intelligence to
decode the human immune system and develop novel immunotherapies
for cancer, bacterial diseases, and viral infections. Based upon
AI-Immunology™, Evaxion has developed a clinical-stage oncology
pipeline of novel personalized vaccines and a preclinical
infectious disease pipeline in bacterial and viral diseases with
high unmet medical needs. Evaxion is committed to transforming
patients’ lives by providing innovative and targeted treatment
options. For more information about Evaxion and its groundbreaking
AI-Immunology™ platform and vaccine pipeline, please visit our
website.
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including, but not limited to, risks related to: our financial
condition and need for additional capital; our development work;
cost and success of our product development activities and
preclinical and clinical trials; commercializing any approved
pharmaceutical product developed using our AI platform technology,
including the rate and degree of market acceptance of our product
candidates; our dependence on third parties including for conduct
of clinical testing and product manufacture; our inability to enter
into partnerships; government regulation; protection of our
intellectual property rights; employee matters and managing growth;
our ADSs and ordinary shares, the impact of international
economic, political, legal, compliance, social and business
factors, including inflation, and the effects on our business
from other significant geopolitical and macro-economic
events; and other uncertainties affecting our business
operations and financial condition. For a further discussion
of these risks, please refer to the risk factors included in our
most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and other
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC), which are available
at www.sec.gov. We do not assume any
obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as
required by law.