4 Dec 2020 17:08
Additional listing and Total Voting Rights
December 4, 2020
LONDON, Silence Therapeutics plc, AIM:SLN and Nasdaq: SLN ("Silence" or "the Company"), a leader in the discovery, development and delivery of novel short interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with significant unmet medical need, today announces that it has issued and allotted 310,000 new ordinary shares of 5p each ("New Ordinary Shares") following the exercise of share options under the Employee Share Option Scheme.
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission is expected to be effective on December 10, 2020. The New Ordinary Shares shall rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company.
The total number of ordinary shares of 5p each in issue, following admission of the New Ordinary Shares, will be 83,306,259. The Company holds no shares in Treasury. 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Enquiries:
Silence Therapeutics plc Gem Hopkins, Head of IR & Corporate Communications
| Tel: +1 (646) 637-3208 |
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Daniel Adams/Gary Clarence
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597 5970 |
European IR Consilium Strategic Communications Mary-Jane Elliott/Chris Welsh/Angela Gray silencetherapeutics@consilium-comms.com
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700 |
US IR Westwicke Partners Peter Vozzo peter.vozzo@westwicke.com
| Tel: +1 (443) 213-0505 |
About Silence Therapeutics plc
Silence Therapeutics is developing a new generation of medicines by harnessing the body's natural mechanism of RNA interference, or RNAi, to inhibit the expression of specific target genes thought to play a role in the pathology of diseases with significant unmet medical need. Silence's proprietary technology can be used to engineer short interfering ribonucleic acids (siRNAs) that bind specifically to and silence, through the RNAi pathway, almost any gene in the human genome to which siRNA can be delivered. Silence's wholly owned product candidates include SLN360 designed to address the high and prevalent unmet medical need in reducing cardiovascular risk in people born with high levels of Lipoprotein(a) and SLN124 to address beta-thalassemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Silence is also developing a C3 targeting programme, SLN500, in partnership with Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals to reduce the expression of the C3 protein for the treatment of complement pathway-mediated diseases. Silence maintains ongoing research and collaborations with AstraZeneca, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Takeda. For more information, please visit: https://www.silence-therapeutics.com/
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