Result of Adjourned General Meeting

RNS Number : 3881E

Scancell Holdings Plc

05 November 2020

 

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5 November 2020

Scancell Holdings plc

("Scancell" or the "Company")

Result of Adjourned General Meeting

Result of Open Offer

and

Issue of Ordinary Shares and New Convertible Loan Notes and Total Voting Rights

Scancell Holdings plc (AIM: SCLP), the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, is pleased to announce that further to the Company's announcements on 12 October 2020 and 29 October 2020 in respect of the Capital Raise and adjournment of the General Meeting, respectively, at the adjourned General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

Accordingly, the Company has raised approximately £33.0 million in aggregate (before expenses) through the Capital Raise. This is comprised of £12.1 million (before expenses) through the issue of 93,071,170 Subscription Shares, which were admitted to trading on 14 October 2020 pursuant to the Subscription, approximately £3.0 million (before expenses) through the issue of 23,301,003 Open Offer Shares pursuant to the Open Offer and gross proceeds from the subscription by the Redmile Funds with an aggregate principal amount of £17.9 million pursuant to the issue of the New Convertible Loan Notes. The issue of the Open Offer Shares remains conditional on Second Admission.

As previously announced, the Open Offer, which closed for receipt of applications at 11.00 a.m. on 28 October 2020 in accordance with its terms, was significantly oversubscribed. Qualifying Shareholders who have validly applied for Open Offer Shares will receive their full basic entitlements under the Open Offer. As applications under the Excess Application Facility cannot be satisfied in full, applications for Open Offer Shares under the Excess Application Facility will be scaled back in accordance with the terms set out in the Circular. Following the scale back, 23,301,003 Open Offer Shares in aggregate will be issued pursuant to basic and excess entitlements.

Applications have been made for 23,301,003 Open Offer Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission of the Open Offer Shares to trading on AIM is expected at 8.00 a.m. on 6 November 2020. The Open Offer Shares will rank pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Shares.

Details of the terms of the New Convertible Loan Notes are set out in the Circular and announcement of the Capital Raise on 12 October 2020. The Redemption Date is expected to be 10 November 2022.

Cliff Holloway, Chief Executive Officer of Scancell, said : "We are extremely grateful to our shareholders for their support for this transformational funding round. The £33.0 million raised will allow the Company to broaden its development pipeline and build the resources required to advance multiple clinical programmes in parallel. Our initial focus will be on our lead products Modi-1 and SCIB1, as well as the initial clinical evaluation of our vaccine for COVID-19. We look forward to updating the market with our progress in due course."

Total Voting Rights

Following Second Admission of the Open Offer Shares, the Company will have 815,218,831 Ordinary Shares in issue.  The Company does not currently hold any shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company following Second Admission will be 815,218,831. Shareholders may use this figure 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 issued share capital of the Company, under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meaning as defined in the Capital Raise Announcement released at 7.00 a.m. on 12 October 2020 unless otherwise stated.

For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, the person responsible for arranging for the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Cliff Holloway, Chief Executive Officer.

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For further information, please contact:

Scancell Holdings plc Dr John Chiplin, Executive Chairman Dr Cliff Holloway, CEO		[phone]
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited
Freddy Crossley/Emma Earl (Corporate Finance)		[phone]
Rupert Dearden (Corporate Broking)
FTI Consulting
Simon Conway/Natalie Garland-Collins		[phone]

Important Notice

This Announcement and the information contained in it is restricted and is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in, into or from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Ireland or the Republic of South Africa or any other jurisdiction in which the same would constitute a violation of the relevant laws or regulations of that jurisdiction (each, a "Restricted Jurisdiction").   The securities mentioned herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The New Ordinary Shares and the New Convertible Loan Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. There will be no public offer of securities of the Company in the United States.

This Announcement has been issued by, and is the sole responsibility, of the Company. No representation or warranty express or implied, is or will be made as to, or in relation to, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by Panmure Gordon or by any of its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, advisers or agents as to or in relation to, the accuracy or completeness of this Announcement or any other written or oral information made available to or publicly available to any interested party or its advisers, and any liability therefore is expressly disclaimed. Panmure Gordon has not authorised the contents of, or any part of, this Announcement.

Panmure Gordon, which is authorised by the FCA, is acting exclusively for the Company and no-one else in connection with the Capital Raise and will not regard any other person as a client in relation to the Capital Raise and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Capital Raise or any other matter referred to herein. Its responsibilities as nominated adviser and broker to the Company are owed to the London Stock Exchange and the Company and not to any other person including, without limitation, in respect of any decision to acquire New Ordinary Shares or New Convertible Loan Notes in reliance on any part of this Announcement.

No public offering of New Ordinary Shares or New Convertible Loan Notes is being made in the United Kingdom, any Restricted Jurisdiction or elsewhere. The distribution of this Announcement and the offering of the New Ordinary Shares or New Convertible Loan Notes in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. No action has been taken by the Company or Panmure Gordon that would permit an offering of such New Ordinary Shares or New Convertible Loan Notes or possession or distribution of this Announcement or any other offering or publicity material relating to such New Ordinary Shares or New Convertible Loan Notes in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this Announcement comes are required by the Company and Panmure Gordon to inform themselves about, and to observe, such restrictions.

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There are matters set out within this Announcement that are forward-looking statements. Such statements are only predictions, and actual events or results may differ materially. For a discussion of important factors which could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements, refer to the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the period ended 30 April 2019. Neither the Company nor Panmure Gordon undertake any obligation to update publicly, or revise, forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent legally required. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Announcement. No statement in this Announcement is or is intended to be a profit forecast or profit estimate or to imply that the earnings of the Company for the current or future financial periods will necessarily match or exceed the historical or published earnings of the Company. The price of Ordinary Shares and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the full amount invested on disposal of the Ordinary Shares.

It is expected that the New Ordinary Shares in the Company to be issued pursuant to the Capital Raise will not be admitted to trading on any stock exchange other than to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. It is not expected that any New Convertible Loan Notes will be admitted to trading on any stock exchange. This Announcement is not an offering document, prospectus, prospectus equivalent document or AIM admission document. No offering document, prospectus, prospectus equivalent document or AIM admission document was required in connection with the Capital Raise and no such document has been or will be prepared or submitted to be approved by the FCA or submitted to the London Stock Exchange in relation to the Capital Raise.

Neither the content of the Company's website nor any links on the Company's website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this Announcement.

Notes for Editors

About Scancell
 

Scancell is developing novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer based on its technology platforms, ImmunoBody^®, Moditope^® and AvidiMab^TM, with four products in multiple cancer indications and development of a vaccine for COVID-19.

ImmunoBody^® vaccines target dendritic cells and stimulate both CD4 and CD8 T cells with the ability to identify, target and eliminate cancer cells. These cancer vaccines have the potential to be used as monotherapy or in combination with checkpoint inhibitors and other agents. The Directors believe that this platform has the potential to enhance tumour destruction, prevent disease recurrence and extend survival.

· SCIB1, Scancell's lead product, is being developed for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. In a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, survival with SCIB1 treatment appears superior to historical survival rates, with 14 of 16 resected patients receiving 2-4 mg doses of SCIB1 surviving for more than five years (as reported in February 2018).

· SCIB2 is being developed for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and other solid tumours. Scancell has entered into a clinical development partnership with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) for SCIB2.

DNA vaccine against COVID-19: As research data emerges, it is becoming increasingly clear that the induction of potent and activated T cells may play a critical role in the development of long-term immunity and clearance of virus-infected cells. Initial research is underway and Scancell anticipates initiating a Phase 1 clinical trial known as COVIDITY during 2021.

Moditope^® represents a completely new class of potent and selective immunotherapy agents based on stress-induced post-translational modifications (siPTM). Examples of such modifications are citrullination, an enzyme-based conversion of arginine to citrulline, and homocitrullination (or carbamylation), in which lysine residues are converted to homocitrulline. Expression of peptides containing these modifications have been demonstrated to induce potent CD4 cytotoxic T-cells to eliminate cancer. Previous pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that conjugation of these Moditope^® peptides to Amplivant^® enhances anti-tumour immune responses 10-100 fold and resulted in highly efficient tumour eradication, including protection against tumour recurrence.

· Modi-1 consists of two citrullinated vimentin peptides and one citrullinated enolase peptide each conjugated to Amplivant^®. Vimentin and enolase peptides are highly expressed in triple negative breast, ovarian, head and neck, and renal cancer, as well as many other cancers. The Company continues to progress the Modi-1 Phase 1/2 clinical trial for regulatory submission to start the planned clinical study in the UK in the first half of 2021.

AvidiMab™ has broad potential to increase the avidity or potency of any therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) including those being developed for autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer. Scancell's development pipeline includes mAbs against specific tumour-associated glycans (TaGs) with superior affinity and selectivity profiles, that have now been further engineered using the Company's AvidiMab™ technology; this confers the Scancell anti-TaG mAbs with the ability to directly kill tumour cells. The Company has entered into three non-exclusive research agreements with leading antibody technology companies to evaluate the Company's anti-TaG mAbs including those enhanced with the AvidiMab™ technology.

 

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