REG - Oxford Biomedica PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding
RNS Number : 6123XOxford Biomedica PLC13 August 2018
PDMR Dealings / Market Share Sale
Oxford, UK - 13 August 2018: Oxford BioMedica plc ("Oxford BioMedica" or "the Group") (LSE: OXB), a leading gene and cell therapy group, today announces that Kyriacos Mitrophanous, Chief Scientific Officer, exercised 13,395 options at 50p ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company on 09 August 2018 and sold all the resulting shares at 904.416p. Following this transaction Kyriacos Mitrophanous holds 164,332 options in the Company.
375 options were exercised at 101.5p and all the resulting shares were sold at 904.416p by Kyriacos Mitrophanous wife (Pippa Radcliffe) and are therefore considered a beneficial holding of Kyriacos Mitrophanous.
The issued share capital of the Company is 65,752,788 ordinary shares of 50 pence each.
The below notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, gives further detail of the number of Ordinary Shares purchased.
1.
Details of the person discharging material responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Kyriacos Mitrophanous
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
Chief Scientific Officer
b.
Initial notification /amendment
Initial notification
3.
Details of the issuer, emission allowance, market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Oxford BioMedica plc
b.
Legal Entity Identifier
213800S1GVQNXQ15K851
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 identification code
Ordinary Shares of 50p each
ISIN: GB00BDFBVT43
b.
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of Options
c.
Currency
GBP - British Pound
d.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£0.50
13,395
e.
Aggregated information
· Aggregated volume
· Price
· Aggregated total
13,395
£0.50
£6,697.5
f.
Date of the transaction
2018-08-13
g.
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)
1.
Details of the person discharging material responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Kyriacos Mitrophanous
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
Chief Scientific Officer
b.
Initial notification /amendment
Initial notification
3.
Details of the issuer, emission allowance, market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Oxford BioMedica plc
b.
Legal Entity Identifier
213800S1GVQNXQ15K851
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 identification code
Ordinary Shares of 50p each
ISIN: GB00BDFBVT43
b.
Nature of the transaction
Disposal
c.
Currency
GBP - British Pound
d.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£9.04416
13,395
e.
Aggregated information
· Aggregated volume
· Price
· Aggregated total
13,395
£9.04416
£121,146.52
f.
Date of the transaction
2018-08-13
g.
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)
1.
Details of the person discharging material responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Pippa Radcliffe
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
Person closely associated with Kyriacos Mitrophanous, Chief Scientific Officer
b.
Initial notification /amendment
Initial notification
3.
Details of the issuer, emission allowance, market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Oxford BioMedica plc
b.
Legal Entity Identifier
213800S1GVQNXQ15K851
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 identification code
Ordinary shares of 50p each
ISIN: GB00BDFBVT43
b.
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of ordinary shares
c.
Currency
GBP - British Pound
d.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£1.015
375
e.
Aggregated information
· Aggregated volume
· Price
· Aggregated total
375
£101.5
£380.63
f.
Date of the transaction
2018-08-13
g.
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)
1.
Details of the person discharging material responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Pippa Radcliffe
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
Person closely associated with Kyriacos Mitrophanous, Chief Scientific Officer
b.
Initial notification /amendment
Initial notification
3.
Details of the issuer, emission allowance, market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.
Name
Oxford BioMedica plc
b.
Legal Entity Identifier
213800S1GVQNXQ15K851
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 identification code
Disposal
b.
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of ordinary shares
c.
Currency
GBP - British Pound
d.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£9.04416
375
e.
Aggregated information
· Aggregated volume
· Price
· Aggregated total
375
£9.04416
£3,391.5
f.
Date of the transaction
2018-08-13
g.
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)
-Ends-
For further information, please contact:
Oxford BioMedica plc:
John Dawson, Chief Executive Officer
Stuart Paynter, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1865 783 000
Financial and corporate communications enquiries:
Consilium Strategic Communications
Mary-Jane Elliott/Matthew Neal/Olivia Manser/Laura Thornton
Tel: +44 (0)20 3709 5700
Notes for editors
About Oxford BioMedica
Oxford BioMedica (LSE:OXB) is a leading 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 and CNS disorders. The Group has also entered into a number of partnerships, including with Novartis, Bioverativ, Sanofi, GSK, Orchard Therapeutics, GC LabCell and Immune Design, through which it has long-term economic interests in other potential gene and cell therapy products. Oxford BioMedica is based across several locations in Oxfordshire, UK and employs more than 320 people. Further information is available at www.oxfordbiomedica.co.uk.
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