24 Apr 2019 16:20
Exercise of Restricted Stock Units
Summit Therapeutics plc (‘Summit’ or the ’Company’)
Exercise of Restricted Stock Units and Total Voting Rights
Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA, US, 24 April 2019 – Summit Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: SMMT, AIM: SUMM) announces the exercise by certain Non-Executive Directors of restricted stock units (‘RSUs’) that entitled the holder to subscribe for an ordinary share of one penny nominal value at a subscription price of one penny per ordinary share. The RSUs were granted under the Company’s 2017 Remuneration Policy and were eligible for exercise for a limited time after completion of a vesting period of one year. Details of the exercise of the RSUs, all of which took place on 23 April 2019, and which have been duly notified to the Company, are summarised below.
| Director | Position | RSU’s Exercised |
| Frank Armstrong | Non-Executive Chairman | 36,585 |
| Valerie Andrews | Non-Executive Director | 17,073 |
| Dave Wurzer | Non-Executive Director | 17,073 |
| Total | 70,731 |
Following the exercise of the RSUs, the shareholdings of all the Non-Executive Directors are as follows:
| Director | Position | Shareholding (ordinary shares) | % of Issued Share Capital |
| Frank Armstrong | Non-Executive Chairman | 158,789* | 0.1% |
| Leopoldo Zambeletti | Non-Executive Director | 15,979 | 0.01% |
| Valerie Andrews | Non-Executive Director | 66,196 | 0.04% |
| Dave Wurzer | Non-Executive Director | 63,196 | 0.04% |
| Total | 304,160 | 0.19% |
* Includes shares held by persons closely associated with the director
The Company also announces the exercise of a further 34,146 RSUs by former Non-Executive Directors of Summit.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of 104,877 ordinary shares to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will become effective and that dealings will commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 30 April 2019.
Total Voting RightsFollowing the exercise of these RSUs, the total number of ordinary shares following admission will be 160,494,758 with each ordinary share carrying the right to one vote. The Company has no shares in Treasury; therefore following admission the total number of voting rights in Summit will be 160,494,758. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify an interest in, or change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
About Summit Therapeutics Summit Therapeutics is a leader in antibiotic innovation. Our new mechanism antibiotics are designed to become the new standards of care for the benefit of patients and create value for payors and healthcare providers. We are currently developing new mechanism antibiotics for infections caused by C. difficile, N. gonorrhoeae and ESKAPE pathogens and are using our proprietary Discuva Platform to expand our pipeline. For more information, visit www.summitplc.com and follow us on Twitter @summitplc.
Contacts
| Summit | ||
| Richard Pye (UK office) | Tel: | +44 (0)1235 443 951 |
| Michelle Avery (US office) | +1 617 225 4455 | |
| Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nominated Adviser) | Tel: | +44 (0)20 7213 0880 |
| Liam Murray / Tony Rawlinson | ||
Notification of Transactions pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
| 1 | Details of the persons discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||||
| a) | Name | Frank ArmstrongValerie AndrewsDave Wurzer | |||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||||
| a) | Position / status | Non-Executive ChairmanNon-Executive DirectorNon-Executive Director | |||
| b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification | |||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||||
| a) | Name | Summit Therapeutics plc | |||
| b) | LEI | 213800NRW8AOMYMTBD89 | |||
| 4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | ||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares of 1 penny each | |||
| Identification code | GB00BN40HZ01 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transactions | Exercise of restricted stock units (RSUs) to subscribe for ordinary shares of one penny nominal value | |||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||
| (i)-(iii) 1p (exercise price) | 36,585 (ii)-(iii) 17,073 | ||||
| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | 70,731 ordinary shares 1 penny (exercise price) | |||
| e) | Date of the transactions | 23 April 2019 | |||
| f) | Place of the transactions | Outside a trading venue | |||
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