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12 January 2023
Futura Medical plc
("Futura" or the "Company")
Remuneration of Non-Executive Directors, Grant of Options and Total Voting Rights
Futura Medical plc (AIM: FUM), a pharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of innovative products based on its proprietary, transdermal DermaSys® drug delivery technology and currently focused on sexual health and pain, announces the issue of 87,430 new ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") in respect of the 2022 remuneration of its Non-Executive Directors and a grant of 4,444,942 options over Ordinary Shares ("Options") to employees and Directors.
Remuneration of Non-Executive Directors
In accordance with the terms of their service agreements, the Non-Executive Directors receive 25-30 per cent of their remuneration in the form of Ordinary Shares. For 2022, these were issued at 36.36 pence per share, being the average closing mid-market price of the last 10 trading days of 2021 (as announced via RNS on 13 January 2022).
The 87,430 new Ordinary Shares shall rank pari passu with the existing issued Ordinary Shares of the Company and have been issued as follows:
Director | Number of Ordinary Shares issued for 2022 remuneration | Total number of ordinary shares held | Percentage of the Company's resulting issued share capital |
John Clarke | 44,560 | 795,100 | 0.28% |
Jeff Needham | 16,344 | 16,344 | 0.01% |
Andrew Unitt | 26,526 | 26,526 | 0.01% |
The shares element of the Non-Executive Directors' remuneration for 2023 will be awarded at 51.50 pence per Ordinary Share, being the average closing mid-market price of the last 10 trading days of 2022. The Non-Executive Directors will receive these shares in January 2024.
Grant of Options
The Company has granted a total of 4,444,942 Options of which 1,985,626 have been awarded to Directors as detailed below.
All Options have been granted under existing schemes and vest equally over 3 years to January 2025 with 25% of the Options granted with immediate vesting. The main condition is that the individual remains an employee or Director at the time of vesting.
Director | Number of Options granted | Exercise price | Total number of Options held following grant |
James Barder | 540,716 | 0.2p | 2,085,716 |
Angela Hildreth | 472,340 | 0.2p | 1,508,340 |
John Clarke | 463,343 | 0.2p | 463,343 |
Ken James | 509,227 | 0.2p | 1,945,227 |
Total Voting Rights
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange and it is anticipated that trading of the new Ordinary Shares will commence on AIM at 8:00am on 17 January 2023.
Immediately following the above issue, the Company will have 288,133,957 ordinary shares in issue, each carrying one voting right. Since the Company currently holds no shares in treasury, the total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 288,133,957 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Further details are contained within the notifications below, made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014. Full details of the Non-Executive Directors' remuneration will be included in the Company's Annual Report & Accounts.
ENDS
For further information please contact:
Futura Medical plc
James Barder, Chief Executive
Angela Hildreth, Finance Director and COO
Email: investor.relations@futuramedical.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 685 670
www.futuramedical.com
Nominated Adviser and Sole Broker:
Liberum
Phil Walker/ Richard Lindley/ Ben Cryer/ Kane Collings
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100 2000
For media enquiries please contact:
Optimum Strategic Communications
Mary Clark/ Eva Haas/ Hollie Vile/ Zoe Bolt
Email: futuramedical@optimumcomms.com
Tel: +44 (0) 203 882 9621
About Futura Medical plc
Futura Medical plc (AIM: FUM), is a pharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of innovative products based on its proprietary, transdermal DermaSys® technology. Each DermaSys® formulation is separately patented and specifically tailored for the selected indication and application, as well as being optimised for clinical efficacy, safety, administration and patient convenience. The products are developed for the prescription and consumer healthcare markets as appropriate. Current therapeutic areas are sexual health, including erectile dysfunction, and pain relief. Development and commercialisation strategies are designed to maximise product differentiation and value creation whilst minimising risk.
MED3000 is Futura's topical gel formulation that is a breakthrough treatment for erectile dysfunction ("ED") through a unique evaporative mode of action. Futura has previously conducted a Phase 3 study using MED3000 in ED, referred to as "FM57". This was a 1,000 patient, dose-ranging, multi-centre, randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled, home use, parallel group study delivering highly statistically significant results compared to pre-treatment baseline, using measures IIEF-EF, SEP2 and SEP3 (internationally accepted clinical trial endpoints in ED) with over 60% of patients experiencing a clinically meaningful improvement in their ED.
MED3000 is CE marked in Europe and CA marked in the UK as a clinically proven topical treatment for adult men with erectile dysfunction under the brand Eroxon™ with a key claim of "Helps you get an erection within 10 minutes".
Futura is based in Guildford, Surrey, and its shares trade on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.futuramedical.com
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