Director/PDMR/PCA Shareholding & TR1

Diaceutics PLC

02 April 2024

 

 Director / PDMR / PCA Shareholding & TR-1 Notification

Belfast and London, 2 April 2024 - Diaceutics PLC (AIM: DXRX), a leading technology and solutions provider to the pharma and biotech industry, announces that on 28 March 2024, Peter Keeling, co-founder and Executive Director of Diaceutics, and Delia Keeling (Peter Keeling's spouse and a PCA), cumulatively sold 1,500,000 ordinary shares of £0.002 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 102 pence per Ordinary Share. As a result of the sale, Peter and Delia Keeling's combined shareholding in Diaceutics is 15,752,049 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 18.60% of the Company's issued share capital.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("MAR"), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR. The person responsible for making this announcement on behalf of the Company is Nick Roberts, Chief Financial Officer.

Enquiries: 

Diaceutics PLC
Ryan Keeling, Chief Executive Officer   Nick Roberts, Chief Financial Officer	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Nomad & Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Ben Maddison
Nick Harland
Kate Hanshaw
Alma Strategic Communications	Tel: [phone]
Caroline Forde, Kinvara Verdon, Kieran Breheny	[e-mail]

About Diaceutics

At Diaceutics we believe that every patient should get the opportunity to receive the right test and the right therapy to positively impact their disease outcome.

We provide the world's leading pharma and biotech companies with an end-to-end commercialisation solution for precision medicines through data analytics, scientific and advisory services enabled by our platform DXRX - The Diagnostics Network ®.

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.	Name	Peter Keeling
2	Reason for notification
a.	Position/Status	Executive Director
b.	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Diaceutics PLC
b.	LEI	213800VEWQBB39ZB8J81
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 Identification Code	Ordinary shares of £0.002 each ISIN:  GB00BJQTGV64
b.	Nature of the transaction	Sale
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			£1.02	750,000
d.	Date of the transaction	28 March 2024
e.	Place of the transaction	AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange

Notification of a Transaction pursuant to Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014
1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a.	Name	Delia Keeling
2	Reason for notification
a.	Position/Status	PCA
b.	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Diaceutics PLC
b.	LEI	213800VEWQBB39ZB8J81
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 Identification Code	Ordinary shares of £0.002 each ISIN:  GB00BJQTGV64
b.	Nature of the transaction	Sale
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			£1.02	750,000
d.	Date of the transaction	28 March 2024
e.	Place of the transaction	AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange

TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS
1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached ii:			Diaceutics PLC ORD GBP0.002
1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer  (please mark with an "X" if appropriate)
Non-UK issuer
2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an "X")
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights						X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify) iii:
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation iv
Name			Peter & Delia Keeling
City and country of registered office (if applicable)			NA
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) v
Name
City and country of registered office (if applicable)
5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached vi:			28 March, 2024
6. Date on which issuer notified:			28 March, 2024
7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation
	% of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8. A)	% of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)		Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B)	Total number of voting rights held in issuer (8.A + 8.B) vii
Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached	18.60%			18.60%
Position of previous notification (if applicable)	20.37%			20.37%

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached viii
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares ISIN code (if possible)		Number of voting rights ix					% of voting rights
		Direct (DTR5.1)		Indirect  (DTR5.2.1)			Direct (DTR5.1)		Indirect (DTR5.2.1)
GB00BJQTGV64				15,752,049					18.60%
SUBTOTAL 8. A		15,752,049
B 1: Financial Instruments according to DTR5.3.1R (1) (a)
Type of financial instrument		Expiration date x	Exercise/ Conversion Period xi			Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.			% of voting rights
			SUBTOTAL 8. B 1
B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to DTR5.3.1R (1) (b)
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date x		Exercise/ Conversion Period xi		Physical or cash Settlement xii			Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
					SUBTOTAL 8.B.2

9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please mark the applicable box with an "X")
Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer xiii
Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity (please add additional rows as necessary) xiv
Name xv	% of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold
10. In case of proxy voting, please identify:
Name of the proxy holder
The number and % of voting rights held
The date until which the voting rights will be held
11. Additional information xvi

Place of completion	AIM Stock Exchange, London
Date of completion	28, March 2024

 

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