REG - Oncimmune Hldgs PLC - Result of Placing & Issue of Equity

Oncimmune HoldingsAnnouncement

18/10/2024 15:15

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RNS Number : 8258I  Oncimmune Holdings PLC  18 October 2024

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TERMS NOT OTHERWISE DEFINED HEREIN SHALL HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN
THE COMPANY'S ANNOUNCEMENT RELEASED AT 7:47 A.M. ON 18 OCTOBER 2024.

 

Oncimmune Holdings plc

("Oncimmune" or the "Company")

Result of Placing & Issue of Equity

 

Oncimmune Holdings plc (AIM: ONC.L), a leading autoantibody profiling company
providing research services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry
to enable the delivery of precision medicine is pleased to announce that
further to the Company's announcement released at 7.47 a.m. this morning (the
"Launch Announcement"), the ABB has closed and the Company has conditionally
raised gross proceeds of approximately £2.15 million, through the successful
Placing of 12,000,00 Placing Shares (comprising 5,500,000 Firm Placing Shares
and 6,500,000 Conditional Placing Shares) as well as a Subscription of a
minimum of 2,333,333 new Ordinary Shares at the Issue Price of 15 pence per
Ordinary Share.

In addition to the Placing and Subscription, the Company is providing its
retail shareholder base with the opportunity to subscribe for an aggregate of
up to 2,000,000 Retail Offer Shares at the Issue Price, to raise up to £0.3
million.

The Firm Placing and Firm Subscription are not conditional on the passing of
the Resolutions at the General Meeting though are conditional on First
Admission and upon the Placing Agreement not being terminated prior to First
Admission. It is expected that First Admission will occur, and that dealings
in the Firm Placing Shares and Firm Subscription Shares will become effective
on 23 October 2024.

The Conditional Placing, Conditional Subscription and Retail Offer are
conditional upon, inter alia, the passing of the Resolutions at the General
Meeting, Second Admission and upon the Placing Agreement becoming
unconditional in all respects.  It is expected that Second Admission will
occur, and that dealings in the Conditional Placing Shares, Conditional
Subscription Shares, Conversion Shares and the Retail Offer Shares will become
effective on 11 November 2024.

No part of the Placing or Subscription is conditional on the Retail Offer
proceeding or on any minimum take-up under the Retail Offer.

 

General Meeting and Shareholder Approval

 

In order to obtain the necessary shareholder approval, a General Meeting is to
be held at the offices of Cavendish Financial Plc, 1 Bartholomew Close, London
EC1A 7BL at 11.00 a.m. on 8 November 2024 at which the Resolutions will be
proposed. A Circular containing a notice of General Meeting is expected to be
sent to shareholders on or around 22 October 2024. The shareholder Circular
and notice of General Meeting will be made available on the Company's website
at https://www.oncimmune.com/investors/documents/
(https://www.oncimmune.com/investors/documents/) .

 

Admission, settlement and dealings

 

Application has been made for admission of the 5,500,000 Firm Placing Shares
and 500,000 Firm Subscription Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. First
Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on 23 October 2024. Following
First Admission, the Company will have 80,142,147 Ordinary Shares in issue
carrying voting rights. 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 of their interest in, the
Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

Following closing of the Retail Offer, the Company will make an application
for the Conditional Placing Shares, Conditional Subscription Shares,
Conversion Shares and the Retail Offer Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM
on Second Admission, which is expected to occur on 11 November 2024. A further
announcement will be made in due course.

 

 

 

 

For further information:

 

Oncimmune Holdings plc

contact@oncimmune.com (mailto:contact@oncimmune.com)

 

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Geoff Nash, Callum Davidson, Trisyia Jamaludin (Corporate Finance)

Nigel Birks (Life Science Specialist Sales)

Ondraya Swanson (ECM)

+44 (0) 20 7220 0500

 

Zeus (Joint Broker)

Dominic King, Dan Bate

+44 (0)20 3829 5000

 

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