BPCP Biopharma Credit Plc

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BioPharma Credit PLC

01 November 2023

1 November 2023

BIOPHARMA CREDIT PLC

UPDATE ON INVESTMENT

BioPharma Credit PLC (LSE: BPCR) notes the filing of a Form 6-K made on 1 November 2023 by LumiraDx Limited ("LumiraDx") which discloses an amendment to the loan agreement entered into with BioPharma Credit PLC, BPCR Limited Partnership, and BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP, which is copied below in part for

convenience and can be found in its entirety at:   LumiraDx Form 6-K Report : 

" EXPLANATORY NOTE

On October 31, 2023, LumiraDx Investment Limited, one of the subsidiaries of LumiraDx Limited (the "Company"), entered into a fifteenth amendment to that certain Loan Agreement, dated March 23, 2021 (as amended from time to time, the "Loan Agreement"), with BioPharma Credit Investments V (Master) LP and BPCR Limited Partnership, as lenders, and BioPharma Credit PLC, as collateral agent (the "Fifteenth Amendment").

Pursuant to the Fifteenth Amendment, among other things, (i) the minimum liquidity covenant in the Loan Agreement is waived until November 20, 2023, provided that the consolidated liquidity of the Company and its subsidiaries during this waiver period (and tested on a weekly basis) must be at least $5 million, (ii) the minimum net sales covenant for the trailing twelve-month period ended September 30, 2023 will be tested on November 20, 2023, and (iii) the lenders have agreed to provide, subject to the terms of the Loan Agreement as amended by the Fifteenth Amendment, additional term loans to the Company, in an aggregate amount of up to $8 million (the "New Term Loans"). The New Term Loans will be subject to an interest rate of SOFR plus 8.0% per annum, payable in quarterly installments. All amounts outstanding under the Loan Agreement, including the New Term Loans, will mature on March 29, 2024.

The foregoing description of the Fifteenth Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Fifteenth Amendment which is attached to this Form 6-K as Exhibit 4.1, and incorporated herein by reference.

This report on Form 6-K, including Exhibit 4.1 hereto, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Company's registration statements on Form S-8 (File No. 333-259874, File No. 333-264611 and File No. 333-271538), and the registration statements on Form F-3 (File No. 333-264609 and File No. 333-271624), and to be a part thereof from the date on which this report is filed, to the extent not superseded by documents or reports subsequently furnished ."

Pharmakon Advisors, LP will continue to provide updates in due course.

Enquiries

Buchanan

David Rydell / Mark Court / Jamie Hooper / Henry Wilson

+44 (0) 20 7466 5000

biopharmacredit@buchanan.uk.com

Notes to Editors

BioPharma Credit PLC is London's only specialist debt investor to the life sciences industry and joined the LSE in March 2017. BioPharma Credit PLC seeks to provide long-term shareholder returns, principally in the form of sustainable income distributions from exposure to the life sciences industry. BioPharma Credit PLC seeks to achieve this objective primarily through investments in debt assets secured by royalties or other cash flows derived from the sales of approved life sciences products.

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