Exercise of Share Options

RNS Number : 8274H

hVIVO plc

20 November 2018

 

HVIVO PLC

("hVIVO" or the "Company")

 

Exercise of Share Options

London, UK, 20 November 2018: hVIVO plc (AIM: HVO), an industry leading clinical development services business pioneering human disease models based upon viral and allergen challenge, announces that, following the exercise of employee share options, application has been made to AIM for the admission of 12,098 new ordinary shares of 5.0p each (the "New Ordinary Shares").

Admission to trading on AIM of the New Ordinary Shares ("Admission"), which will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing shares in issue, is expected to occur on 23 November 2018.

Following Admission, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 80,593,592 and 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

hVIVO plc
Trevor Phillips (Executive Chairman)	[phone]
Fleur Wood (Director, Investor Relations)
Numis Securities Limited	[phone]
Michael Meade / Freddie Barnfield (Nominated Adviser)
James Black / Michael Burke (Corporate Broking)
FTI Consulting
Simon Conway / Victoria Foster Mitchell	[phone]

Notes to Editors:

hVIVO plc ("hVIVO") is pioneering a human-based clinical trial platform to accelerate drug and vaccine development in respiratory and infectious diseases. Leveraging human disease models in flu, RSV, HRV and respiratory indications, the hVIVO platform captures disease in motion, illuminating the entire disease life cycle from healthy to sick and back to health. Based in the UK, market leader hVIVO has conducted more than 50 clinical studies and inoculated over 2500 volunteers.

 

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