REG - Oxford Biomedica PLC - Block listing Application

Oxford BioMedicaAnnouncement

25/08/2020 16:50

RNS Number : 1344X
  
Oxford Biomedica PLC
  
25 August 2020
  
 

 
 
 
Oxford Biomedica 
Block listing Application
 
Oxford, UK - 25 August 2020: Oxford Biomedica plc ("OXB" or "the Group") (LSE: OXB), announces that applications have been made to the Financial Conduct Authority and the London Stock Exchange for admission to (i) the Premium segment of the Official List and (ii) to trading on the London Stock Exchange for a block listing of 300,000 ordinary shares of 50 pence each (the "Ordinary Shares").
 
The Ordinary Shares are being reserved under a block listing and will be issued from time to time pursuant to the following schemes:
 
·      OXB Employee Share Option Scheme (ESOS) (200,000 Ordinary Shares); and
·      OXB Deferred Bonus Plan (DBP) Share Option Scheme (100,000 Ordinary Shares).
 
It is expected that admission of the Ordinary Shares will become effective on 01 September 2020. The Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Group's existing ordinary shares in issue.
 
 
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For further information, please contact:


 




 
Oxford Biomedica plc:
Natalie Walter, Company Secretary


 
Tel: +44 (0)1865 783 000



 
 
About Oxford Biomedica
 
Oxford Biomedica (LSE:OXB) is a leading, fully integrated, gene and cell therapy group focused on developing life changing treatments for serious diseases. Oxford Biomedica and its subsidiaries (the "Group") have built a sector leading lentiviral vector delivery platform (LentiVector®), which the Group leverages to develop in vivo and ex vivo products both in-house and with partners. The Group has created a valuable proprietary portfolio of gene and cell therapy product candidates in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, CNS disorders, liver diseases and respiratory disease. The Group has also entered into a number of partnerships, including with Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Axovant Gene Therapies, Orchard Therapeutics, Santen, Boehringer Ingelheim, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium and Imperial Innovations, through which it has long-term economic interests in other potential gene and cell therapy products. Additionally, the group has signed a Clinical and Commercial Supply Agreement with AstraZeneca for manufacture of the adeno based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222. Oxford Biomedica is based across several locations in Oxfordshire, UK and employs more than 550 people. Further information is available at www.oxb.com.
 
 
 

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