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Destiny Pharma plc
("Destiny" or the "Company")
Result of General Meeting
and
Total Voting Rights
Brighton, United Kingdom - 28 March 2022 - Destiny Pharma plc (AIM:DEST) a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines to prevent life threatening infections, 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 6.45 million from the Fundraising and has allotted a total of 12,909,007 New Shares. Admission of the 12,909,007 New Shares, comprised of the Placing Shares, the Subscription Shares and the Open Offer Shares, is expected to occur on 29 March 2022.
Following Admission on 29 March 2022, the Company's issued ordinary share capital will comprise 73,307,105 Ordinary Shares, none of which are held in treasury. The above figure of 73,307,0105 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 www.destinypharma.com.
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 8 March 2022.
Enquiries:
For further information, please contact:
Destiny Pharma plc
Neil Clark, CEO
Shaun Claydon, CFO
+44 (0)1273 704 440
Optimum Strategic Communications
Mary Clark / Hollie Vile / Manel Mateus
+44 (0) 208 078 4357
DestinyPharma@optimumcomms.com
finnCap Ltd (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Geoff Nash / Kate Bannatyne / George Dollemore, Corporate Finance
Alice Lane / Nigel Birks / Harriet Ward, ECM
+44 (0)20 7220 0500
MC Services AG (Joint Broker)
Anne Hennecke / Andreas Burckhardt
+49-211-529252-12
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Neil Clark |
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Chief Executive Officer |
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Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Destiny Pharma plc |
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LEI |
213800O9WH9Z38EHAC95 |
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Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") |
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DEST GB00BDHSP575 |
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Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Aggregated information: Aggregated volume Price |
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Date of the transaction |
28 March 2022 |
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London Stock Exchange, AIM Market |
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Shaun Claydon |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Destiny Pharma plc |
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213800O9WH9Z38EHAC95 |
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Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") |
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DEST GB00BDHSP575 |
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Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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28 March 2022 |
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London Stock Exchange, AIM Market |
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Nick Rodgers |
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Chairman |
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Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
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Destiny Pharma plc |
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213800O9WH9Z38EHAC95 |
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Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument |
Ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") |
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DEST GB00BDHSP575 |
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Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Aggregated information: Aggregated volume Price |
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28 March 2022 |
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Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM Market |
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Debra Barker |
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Non-Executive Director |
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Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
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Destiny Pharma plc |
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213800O9WH9Z38EHAC95 |
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Ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") |
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DEST GB00BDHSP575 |
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Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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Aggregated information: Aggregated volume Price |
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Date of the transaction |
28 March 2022 |
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Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM Market |