REG - e-Therapeutics plc - Director Dealing and Issue of Equity

E-TherapeuticsAnnouncement

07/01/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 6936X  e-Therapeutics plc  07 January 2022

E-THERAPEUTICS PLC

 

("e-therapeutics" or the "Company")

 

DIRECTOR DEALING AND ISSUE OF EQUITY

 

Oxford, UK, 7 January 2022 - e-therapeutics plc (AIM: ETX), the drug
discovery company, announces that on 6 January 2022, Professor Trevor Jones
(Non-Executive Chairman of the Company) subscribed for a total of 17,471 new
ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") at a
price of 43.28 pence per share. The subscription monies paid for the New
Ordinary Shares represent 50% of Professor Jones' Non-Executive Director fees
net of tax paid during the period from 1 July 2021 to 31 December 2021 in
accordance with the agreement entered into with Professor Jones, previously
announced on 5 October 2016, by which Professor Jones agreed, with effect from
1 October 2016, to invest 50% of his annual Non-Executive Director fees net of
tax in new e-therapeutics' ordinary shares. Such new shares are issued to
Professor Jones on the first business day after 31 December and 30 June in
each year. The subscription price to be paid is the average of the closing
mid-market price for the five business days prior to the date of issue.

 

Following Admission, Professor Jones will be interested in a total of
1,079,478 ordinary shares of 0.1p in the Company, representing approximately
0.21% of the Company's issued share capital.

 

Application has been made to AIM for the admission of the New Ordinary Shares
to trading on AIM ("Admission") and Admission is expected to occur at 8:00
a.m. on or around 13 January 2022. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari
passu in all respects with the Company's existing ordinary shares in issue.

 

Following Admission, the total number of ordinary shares in the Company with
voting rights in issue will be 514,571,069. This figure may be used by
shareholders 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 Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU
Market Abuse Regulation, provides further details:

 

 1   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely
     associated
 a)  Name                                                         Trevor Jones
 2   Reason for the notification
 a)  Position/status                                              Non-Executive Chairman
 b)  Initial notification/ Amendment                              Initial notification
 3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
     platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a)  Name                                                         e-therapeutics plc
 b)  LEI                                                          21380049RHSSJXWKYT18
 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
 a)  Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument  Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence

     Identification code

                                                                  ISIN: GB00B2823H99
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    Purchase of shares
 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       17,471 ordinary shares at a price of 43.28 pence per share
 d)  Aggregated information                                       17,471 ordinary shares

     - Aggregated volume                                          43.28 pence per share

     - Price                                                      Aggregated value: £7,561.45

 e)  Date of the transaction                                      6 January 2022

 f)  Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 e-therapeutics plc
 Ali Mortazavi, CEO                                 Tel: +44 (0)1993 883 125

 Laura Roca-Alonso, CBO                             www.etherapeutics.co.uk (http://www.etherapeutics.co.uk)

 SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP
 Nominated Adviser and Broker                       Tel: +44(0)20 3470 0470
 Matthew Johnson/Caroline Rowe (Corporate Finance)
 Vadim Alexandre/Rob Rees (Corporate Broking)

 

 

About e-therapeutics plc

 

e-therapeutics plc is an Oxford, UK-based company integrating computational
power and biology to accelerate the discovery of life-transforming medicines.
The Company has developed and validated a powerful, disease and modality
agnostic computational approach to drug discovery, leveraging its
industry-leading expertise in network biology to fully capture and interrogate
human disease complexity.

 

The Company's multi-disciplinary team builds computational models of
biological functions to transform the search for new medicines, interventions,
mechanisms and genetic support. Its biology-led in silico laboratory enables
rapid hypothesis generation and phenotypic screening of millions of compounds
leading to 100-1000x higher hit rates in the wet lab and successful mode of
action elucidation. Novel targets can also be identified, prioritised and
assessed. Harnessing internal target gene discoveries, e-therapeutics is
currently building an in-house pipeline of RNAi based medicines, using its
proprietary GalNAc-siRNA technology.

 

e-therapeutics has deployed and validated its disease-agnostic computational
drug discovery platform both in house and with partners, including Novo
Nordisk, Galapagos NV and a US-based, top 5 pharmaceutical company.

 

 

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