REG - Oxford Biomedica PLC - Director Purchase
RNS Number : 0620DOxford Biomedica PLC23 October 2020
Director Purchase
Oxford, UK - 23 October 2020: Oxford Biomedica plc ("Oxford Biomedica" or "the Group") (LSE: OXB), a leading gene and cell therapy group, today announces that Vulpes Life Sciences Fund ("Vulpes"), whose portfolio manager Martin Diggle is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Oxford Biomedica, has purchased 25,000 ordinary shares of 50p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company on 22 October 2020 on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 779.6p per share. Following this purchase Vulpes Testudo/Vulpes Life Sciences Fund holds 10,738,616 ordinary shares representing 13.1% of the Company.
The below notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, gives further detail of the transaction in number of Ordinary Shares.
1.
Details of the person discharging material responsibilities/person closely associated
a.
Name
Vulpes Life Sciences Fund
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
Martin Diggle, Non-Executive Director
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
Oxford Biomedica plc Ordinary Shares of 50p each
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)
£7.80
25,000
e.
Aggregated information
· Aggregated volume
· Price
· Aggregated total
25,000
£7.795807
£194,895.18
f.
Date of the transaction
2020-10-22
g.
Place of the transaction
London Stock exchange, Main List (XLON)
The issued share capital of the Group is 82,223,225 ordinary 50p shares.
-Ends-
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, Beam Therapeutics, 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 3 year master supply and development agreement with AstraZeneca for large-scale manufacturing of the adenoviral based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222. Oxford Biomedica is based across several locations in Oxfordshire, UK and employs more than 580 people. Further information is available at www.oxb.com
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