Avacta Group PLC Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights (1042N)
20 September 2023 - 11:00PM
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Avacta Group PLC
20 September 2023
20 September 2023
Avacta Group plc
("Avacta" or the "Group" or the "Company")
Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a life sciences company developing
innovative, targeted oncology drugs and powerful diagnostics, today
announces it has received a notice of conversion for GBP0.85
million of the principal amount of the Company's unsecured
convertible bond (the "Conversion"), as detailed in Avacta's
announcement on 18 October 2022.
As a result of the Conversion, Avacta will issue and allot
715,789 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ("New
Ordinary Shares"). After settlement of the conversion, the
principal remaining under the convertible bond will be reduced by
GBP0.85 million to GBP43.35 million.
Application has been made to AIM for the admission to trading of
the 715,789 New Ordinary Shares resulting from the conversion,
which is expected to occur at or around 8.00 am on 26 September
2023 ("Admission"). The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu
with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.
Following Admission, the Company's enlarged issued share capital
will be 280,082,440. This figure may be used by shareholders in the
Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under
the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules.
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For further information from Avacta Group plc, please
contact:
Avacta Group plc Tel: +44 (0) 1904 21 7070
Alastair Smith, Chief Executive www.avacta.com
Officer
Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer
Michael Vinegrad, Group Communications
Director
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Nomad Tel: +44 (0) 207 710 7600
and Broker) www.stifel.com
Nicholas Moore / Nick Adams / Samira
Essebiyea / Nick Harland / Dhiren
Suares / William Palmer-Brown
Peel Hunt Tel: +44 (0) 207 418 8900
James Steel / Chris Golden / Patrick www.peelhunt.com
Birkholm
ICR Consilium avacta@consilium-comms.com
Mary-Jane Elliott / Jessica Hodgson
/ Sukaina Virji
About Avacta Group plc - https://www.avacta.com
Avacta Group plc is a life sciences company working to improve
people's health and well-being through innovative oncology drugs
and powerful diagnostics. Operating through two divisions,
Diagnostics and Therapeutics, the Group's mission is to provide
professionals and consumers with solutions that improve healthcare,
fitness and well-being.
Avacta's Therapeutics Division, a clinical stage oncology drug
innovator, is building a wholly owned pipeline of novel Affimer(R)
immunotherapies and pre|CISION(TM) tumour targeted chemotherapies.
This approach is designed to address the lack of a durable response
to current cancer immunotherapies experienced by most patients and
reduce the severe systemic toxicities caused by chemotherapies.
There are five programmes in the pipeline as well as several global
research collaborations and licensing partnerships. Avacta's lead
programme, AVA6000, is a pre|CISION(TM) tumour-targeted form of the
established chemotherapy doxorubicin. AVA6000 is in Phase I
clinical trials in patients with locally advanced or metastatic
selected solid tumours.
The Affimer(R) platform is an alternative to antibodies that has
been designed to address many of the drawbacks of antibodies which,
despite their shortcomings, currently dominate the
immuno-diagnostics and immuno-therapeutics markets.
The pre|CISION(TM) tumour targeting platform can be used to
modify a chemotherapy in order to selectively release the active
drug in tumour tissue thereby reducing the systemic exposure that
causes damage to healthy tissues. pre|CISION(TM) modified
chemotherapies are designed to reduce the side effects and improve
the overall safety and therapeutic potential of these powerful
anti-cancer treatments.
Avacta's Diagnostics Division develops and supplies a broad
range of in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) solutions. The Division is
growing rapidly through an M&A strategy to deliver a
global-scale IVD business providing market-leading solutions for
healthcare professionals and consumers to inform treatment and
monitor health and well-being. In October 2022, Avacta acquired
Launch Diagnostics which serves the hospital pathology laboratory
market in the UK and Europe. In May 2023, Avacta acquired Coris
Bioconcept a Belgium-based lateral flow test developer and
manufacturer adding a broad range of marketed professional-use
rapid tests into the Diagnostics Division. Avacta Diagnostic's
research and development centre in Wetherby, UK uses its
proprietary Affimer(R) platform to differentiate immunodiagnostic
products to provide market-leading performance.
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