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Synairgen plc
("Synairgen" or the "Company")
Result of General Meeting
and
Total Voting Rights
Southampton, UK - 2 November 2020: Synairgen plc (LSE: SNG), the respiratory drug discovery and development company, announces that, at the General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions proposed were duly passed by shareholders on a poll.
Accordingly, the Company has raised total gross proceeds of approximately £87 million from the Fundraising and has allotted 34,809,726 New Ordinary Shares, conditional only on Admission becoming effective. Admission of the 34,809,726 New Ordinary Shares is expected at 8.00 a.m. on or around 4 November 2020.
Following Admission, the Company's issued ordinary share capital will comprise 199,914,402 Ordinary Shares, none of which are held in treasury. The above figure of 199,914,402 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 voting rights of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
A summary of the votes received for the General Meeting will be made available on the Company's website at https://www.synairgen.com/investors/rule-26-info/.
Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as defined in the announcement of the Fundraising made by the Company on 14 October 2020.
Enquiries:
Synairgen plc +44 (0) 23 8051 2800
Richard Marsden (Chief Executive Officer)
John Ward (Finance Director)
finnCap - Nominated Adviser and Joint Bookrunner +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Geoff Nash / James Thompson / Charlie Beeson (Corporate Finance)
Alice Lane / Sunila de Silva (ECM)
Numis - Joint Bookrunner +44 (0) 20 7260 1000
James Black / Freddie Barnfield / Duncan Monteith
Consilium Strategic Communications - Financial Media and Investor +44 (0) 20 3709 5700
Relations Adviser
Mary-Jane Elliott / Sue Stuart / Olivia Manser
About Synairgen
Synairgen is a respiratory drug discovery and development company founded by University of Southampton Professors Sir Stephen Holgate, Donna Davies and Ratko Djukanovic. The business, focused primarily on lung viral defence in asthma, COPD and COVID-19, uses its differentiating human biology BioBank platform and world-renowned international academic KOL network to discover and develop novel therapies for respiratory disease. Synairgen is quoted on AIM (LSE: SNG). For more information about Synairgen, please see www.synairgen.com
This announcement is not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America. This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale into the United States. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an applicable exemption from registration. No public offering of securities is being made in the United States.