REG - hVIVO PLC - Exercise of Options

hVIVOAnnouncement

11/11/2022 07:16

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RNS Number : 0655G  hVIVO PLC  11 November 2022

hVIVO plc

("hVIVO" or the "Company")

 

Exercise of Options

 

hVIVO plc (AIM: HVO) (formerly Open Orphan plc), a rapidly growing specialist
contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in testing infectious
and respiratory disease products using human challenge clinical trials,
confirms that it has issued 118,457 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in
the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), pursuant to the exercise of
share options by two former employees of the Company. It is expected that the
admission of the Ordinary Shares will occur on 17 November 2022.

 

Following admission, the Company will have 671,047,771 Ordinary Shares in
issue. This figure of 671,047,771 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 of their interest in, the
Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

 hVIVO plc                                       +44 (0) 20 7756 1300
 Yamin 'Mo' Khan, Chief Executive Officer

 Stephen Pinkerton, Chief Financial Officer

 Liberum Capital (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)                       +44 (0) 20 3100 2000
 Ben Cryer, Edward Mansfield, Phil Walker, Will King

 finnCap plc (Joint Broker)                                                +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
 Geoff Nash, Charlie Beeson, Nigel Birks, Harriet Ward (ECM)

 Davy (Euronext Growth Adviser and Joint Broker)                           +353 (0) 1 679 6363
 Anthony Farrell, Niall Gilchrist

 Walbrook PR (Financial PR & IR)                 +44 (0) 20 7933 8780 or hvivo@walbrookpr.com

 Stephanie Cuthbert / Phillip Marriage /         +44 (0) 7796 794 663 / +44 (0) 7867 984 082 /

Louis Ashe-Jepson
+44 (0) 7747 515 393

 

Notes to Editors

 

hVIVO plc (ticker: HVO) (formerly Open Orphan plc) is a rapidly growing
specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and the world leader in
testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines and therapeutics using
human challenge clinical trials. The Group provides end-to-end early clinical
development services to its large, established and growing repeat client base,
which includes four of the top 10 largest global biopharma companies.

 

The Group's fast-growing services business includes a unique portfolio of 10+
human challenge models to test a broad range of infectious and respiratory
disease products, world class challenge agent manufacturing, specialist drug
development and clinical consultancy services via its Venn Life Sciences
brand, and a lab offering via its hLAB brand, which includes virology,
immunology biomarker and molecular testing. The Group offers additional
clinical field trial services such as patient recruitment and clinical trial
site services.

 

hVIVO runs challenge studies in London from its Whitechapel quarantine
clinic, its state-of-the-art QMB clinic with its highly specialised on-site
virology and immunology laboratory, and its clinic in Plumbers Row. To recruit
volunteers / patients for its studies, the Company leverages its unique
clinical trial recruitment capacity via its FluCamp
(https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flucamp.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7CCarol.Dalton%40openorphan.com%7Cfb9f1a50aaa9492d81ed08da875cca71%7C131abc777e104bbd90170559abc5d601%7C1%7C0%7C637971129881295595%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fQdtQTHu9Bo70yRgWcZW5liNTXPYiWl9YayUA01E%2FlA%3D&reserved=0)
 volunteer screening facilities in London and Manchester.

 

 

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