REG - Silence Therapeutics - Grant of Employee Options

Silence TherapeuticsAnnouncement

27/04/2021 07:05

RNS Number : 6452W
  
Silence Therapeutics PLC
  
27 April 2021
  
 

Grant of Employee Options
27th April 2021
 
LONDON, Silence Therapeutics plc, AIM:SLN and Nasdaq: SLN ("Silence" or "the Company"), a leader in the discovery, development and delivery of novel short interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with significant unmet medical need, today announced that it has granted 160,000 options under the Silence Therapeutics plc 2018 Employee Long Term Incentive Plan to Giles Campion, M.D., Executive Director of the Company. The options will have a strike price of £5.50, the mid-market closing price on AIM on April 22, 2021.
 
The notification below is made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation as it forms part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
 
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them 
 



1.


Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMR) / person closely associated




a)


Name


Giles Campion, M.D.  
 




2.


Reason for the notification




a)


Position / status


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


Silence Therapeutics plc
 




b)


LEI


213800SSURRJBX85SQ91
 




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 nominal value 5 pence each in the capital of Silence Therapeutics plc
 
 
 
ISIN for Silence Therapeutics plc Ordinary Shares:
GB00B9GTXM62
 




b)


Nature of the transaction


Grant of options under the Silence Therapeutics plc 2018 Employee Long Term Incentive Plan




c)


Prices(a) and volume(s)


 



Price


Volume




Nil


160,000



 
 




d)


Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price


 
N/A




e)


Date of the transaction


22 April 2021




f)


Place of the transaction


Outside a trading venue
 



 
 
 
 
Enquiries:
 



Silence Therapeutics plc
 Gem Hopkins, Head of IR & Corporate Communications


Tel:  +1 (646) 637-3208




 
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Daniel Adams/Gary Clarence
 


 
Tel:  +44 (0) 20 7597 5970




European PR
Consilium Strategic Communications
Mary-Jane Elliott/Chris Welsh/Angela Gray
silencetherapeutics@consilium-comms.com 
 


Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700



 
 
About Silence Therapeutics
Silence Therapeutics is developing a new generation of medicines by harnessing the body's natural mechanism of RNA interference, or RNAi, to inhibit the expression of specific target genes thought to play a role in the pathology of diseases with significant unmet medical need. Silence's proprietary mRNAi GOLD™ platform can be used to create siRNAs that precisely target and silence disease-associated genes in the liver, which represents a substantial opportunity. Silence's wholly owned product candidates include SLN360 designed to address the high and prevalent unmet medical need in reducing cardiovascular risk in people born with high levels of lipoprotein(a) and SLN124 designed to address iron loading anemias. Silence also maintains ongoing research and development collaborations with AstraZeneca, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, and Takeda, among others. For more information, please visit https://www.silence-therapeutics.com/.
 

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