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BioPharma Credit plc

Publication of Circular

16 March 2018 

Further to the publication of the Prospectus on 14 March 2018, the Company has today published a circular convening an extraordinary general meeting of Shareholders at 11:00 a.m. on 11 April 2018 (the "Circular") in order to seek the approval of independent Shareholders for certain related parties to be able to participate in the Initial Placing and Offer and/or any subsequent Placing.

As disclosed in the Prospectus and the Circular, the Company has certain related parties pursuant to the Listing Rules (to the extent that the Company voluntarily complies with them) as a result of such party currently being or having been a substantial shareholder of the Company in the past 12 months. These related parties are Invesco Asset Management Limited (as agent for and on behalf of its discretionary manager clients) and its associates, and Prudential plc and its associates (the "Related Parties"). Participation by any of the Related Parties in the Issue will be treated as a related party transaction for the purposes of the Listing Rules (the "Related Party Transactions").

The Directors believe that the approval of the Related Party Transactions will be beneficial to the overall Issue and would be in the interests of all Shareholders. The Circular published today convenes a general meeting of the Shareholders in order to seek the approval of Shareholders (independent of that Related Party and its associates) for each Related Party to be able to participate in the Initial Placing and Offer and/or any subsequent Placing.

Further details are set out in the Circular.

Expected timetable

All references to times in this document are to London times, unless otherwise stated.

A copy of the Circular will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 

Capitalised terms used in this announcement and not otherwise defined will have the meanings given to them in the Circular.

Enquiries: 

BioPharma Credit plc

via Link Company Matters Limited

Company Secretary

+44 (0)1392 477 509

J.P. Morgan Securities plc - Joint Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner

+44 (0)20 7742 4000

William Simmonds

Oliver Kenyon

Anne Ross

Goldman Sachs International - Joint Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner

+44 (0)20 7774 1000

Charlie Lytle

Shomick Bhattacharya

Jennie Holloway

Tom Hartley

Merrill Lynch International - Joint Bookrunner

+44 (0)20 7628 1000

Rob Parker

Daniel Norman

Tom Milner

Buchanan

+44 (0)20 7466 5000 / biopharmacredit@buchanan.uk.com

David Rydell

Mark Court

Jamie Hooper

Henry Wilson

The Company has not been and will not be registered under the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act"), and as such investors will not be entitled to the benefits of the Investment Company Act. The Shares have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold, resold, pledged, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, into or within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, any "U.S. persons" as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act ("US Persons"), except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and in a manner which would not require the Company to register under the Investment Company Act.

Neither the United States Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of the Shares or passed upon or endorsed the adequacy or accuracy of this announcement.

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