Issue of shares and TVR

RNS Number : 6078L

Renalytix PLC

13 September 2021

 

Renalytix plc

("Renalytix" or the "Company")  

Issue of shares under the 2020 employee share purchase plan and Total Voting Rights

NEW YORK and SALT LAKE CITY, September 13 2021 - Renalytix Plc (NASDAQ: RNLX) (LSE: RENX) announces that under the Company's Employee Share Purchase Plan ("the ESPP"), new 10,920 ordinary shares of £0.0025 each in the capital of the Company ("the Ordinary Shares") have been issued to settle the purchase of 5,460 American Depositary Shares, each representing two Ordinary Shares ("ADSs") by employees who participated in the ESPP.  Further details in relation to the ESPP were contained in the Company's announcement of 2 September 2020.

An application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that admission of the 10,920 new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM will become effective on, or around, 17 September 2021 ("Admission").

Total voting rights

Following Admission, the Company will have 72,240,706 Ordinary Shares in issue with each share carrying the right to one vote. The Company has no Ordinary Shares held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company following Admission will therefore be 72,240,706.

For further information, please contact:  

Renalytix plc		www.renalytix.com
James McCullough, CEO		Via Walbrook PR
Stifel (Nominated Adviser, Joint Broker)		Tel: [phone]
Alex Price / Nicholas Moore
Investec Bank plc (Joint Broker)		Tel: [phone]
Gary Clarence / Daniel Adams
Walbrook PR Limited	Tel: [phone]  or  [e-mail]
Paul McManus / Lianne Cawthorne		Mob: [phone]

About KidneyIntelX

KidneyIntelX is a first-of-kind solution that enables early-stage diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression risk assessment by combining diverse data inputs, including validated blood-based biomarkers, inherited genetics, and personalized patient data from electronic health record systems, and employs a proprietary algorithm to generate a unique patient risk score. This patient risk score enables prediction of progressive kidney function decline in chronic kidney disease, allowing physicians and healthcare systems to optimize the allocation of treatments and clinical resources to patients at highest risk.

About Renalytix

Renalytix (LSE: RENX) (NASDAQ: RNLX) is the global founder and leader in the new field of bioprognosis^TM for kidney health. The company has engineered a new solution that successfully enables early-stage chronic kidney disease, progression risk assessment. The Company's lead product, KidneyIntelX, has been granted Breakthrough Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is designed to help make significant improvements in kidney disease prognosis, transplant management, clinical care, patient stratification for drug clinical trials, and drug target discovery (visit www.kidneyintelx.com ). For more information, visit www.renalytix.com .

Forward Looking Statements

Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Examples of these forward-looking statements include statements concerning: the commercial prospects of KidneyIntelX, including whether KidneyIntelX will be successfully adopted by physicians and distributed and marketed, the rate of testing with KidneyIntelX in health care systems, expectations and timing of announcement of real-world testing evidence, the potential for KidneyIntelX to be approved for additional indications, our expectations regarding reimbursement decisions and the ability of KidneyIntelX to curtail costs of chronic and end-stage kidney disease, optimize care delivery and improve patient outcomes. Words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "seeks," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We may not actually achieve the plans and objectives disclosed in the forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: that KidneyIntelX is based on novel artificial intelligence technologies that are rapidly evolving and potential acceptance, utility and clinical practice remains uncertain; we have only recently commercially launched KidneyIntelX; and risks relating to the impact on our business of the COVID-19 pandemic or similar public health crises. These and other risks are described more fully in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the "Risk Factors" section of our annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on October 28, 2020, and other filings we make with the SEC from time to time. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

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