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31 July 2015 |
Avacta Group plc
("Avacta" or the "Group")
Result of General Meeting
Avacta Group plc (LSE: AVCT), the global provider of proprietary diagnostic tools, consumables and reagents for life sciences, is pleased to announce that the Resolutions put to shareholders at today's General Meeting in connection with the Placing announced by the Company on 15 July 2015, were duly passed.
Following the passing of the Resolutions at the General Meeting, a total of 1,760,000,000 new Ordinary Share s, have been allotted to existing and new investors, conditional upon the admission of such Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM.
It is expected that settlement will occur, admission to trading on AIM will become effective and dealings will commence in respect of the 1,760,000,000 new Ordinary Shares, at 8.00am on 3 August 2015.
Upon admission, the Placing Shares will be issued, credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.
Following admission of the 1,760,000,000 new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue will be 6,739,649,550 and this figure may be used by shareholders 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 Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Capitalised terms in this announcement have the same meaning as in the circular sent to Shareholders in connection with the Placing on 15 July 2015.
For further information:
Avacta Group plc Alastair Smith, Chief Executive Officer Tim Sykes, Chief Financial Officer | Tel: +44 (0) 844 414 0452 www.avacta.com |
Numis Securities Limited Michael Meade / Freddie Barnfield - Nominated Adviser James Black - Corporate Broking |
Tel: +44 (0) 207 260 1000 www.numiscorp.com |
WG Partners LLP - Joint Broker David Wilson Claes Spång |
Tel: +44 (0) 203 705 9330 www.wgpartners.co.uk |
Media Enquiries FTI Consulting Simon Conway/Natalie Garland-Collins |
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 avacta@fticonsulting.com |
Notes to Editors
Avacta Group plc (www.avacta.com)
Avacta Group plc is a global provider of innovative technologies, consumables and reagents for the life science markets, from drug discovery to diagnostics. Avacta's principal focus is on its proprietary Affimer® technology which is a novel engineered alternative to antibodies that has wide application in Life Sciences for diagnostics, therapeutics and general research and development.
Antibodies dominate markets worth in excess of $50bn despite their shortcomings. Affimers have been designed to address many of these negative performance issues, principally: the time taken to generate new antibodies, the reliance on an animal's immune response, poor specificity in many cases, and batch to batch variability. Affimers are based on a small protein that can be quickly generated to bind with high specificity and affinity to a wide range of protein targets.
Avacta is commercialising the Affimer reagents through custom Affimer services to provide bespoke solutions to customers, via a growing on-line catalogue of Affimer reagents and, in the longer term, by developing Affimers with therapeutic properties for out-licensing.