Result of Retail Offer and Total Voting Rights

Scancell Holdings Plc

09 December 2024

 

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9 December 2024

Scancell Holdings plc

("Scancell" or the "Company")

Result of Significantly Oversubscribed Retail Offer and Total Voting Rights

Scancell Holdings plc (AIM: SCLP), the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, is pleased to confirm, further to the announcements made on 4 December 2024, the result of its significantly oversubscribed Retail Offer and Capital Raise at the Issue Price of 10.5 pence per share. The Company announces that it has, conditional on Admission, raised aggregate gross proceeds of approximately £1 million pursuant to the Retail Offer. This is in addition to the previously announced oversubscribed Placing and Subscription which had significant participation from both existing and new healthcare specialist investors. Accordingly, the Company will issue a total of 9,523,809 new Ordinary Shares at the Issue Price pursuant to the Retail Offer.

In total, the Placing, Subscription and the Retail Offer have raised gross proceeds of approximately £11.3 million in aggregate for the Company.

Admission and Total Voting Rights

Application has been made for the Placing Shares, the Subscription Shares and the Retail Offer Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to become effective on or around 10 December 2024.

Upon Admission, the Company's issued ordinary share capital will consist of 1,036,781,403 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, from Admission the total number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company will be 1,036,781,403. With effect from Admission, this figure may be used by Shareholders in the Company 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Retail Offer will be issued free of all liens, charges and encumbrances and will, on Admission, rank pari passu in all respects with the new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing, the Subscription and the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.

For the purposes of UK MAR, the person responsible for arranging for the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Sath Nirmalanathan, Chief Financial Officer.

Terms used but not defined in this announcement have the same meaning as set out in the Company's announcement released at 5:59 pm on 4 December 2024.

Scancell Holdings plc [phone] Phil L'Huillier, CEO Professor Lindy Durrant, CSO Dr Jean-Michel Cosséry, Non-Executive Chairman Panmure Liberum Limited (Joint Bookrunner, Joint Broker and Nominated Advisor) [phone] Emma Earl, Will Goode, Mark Rogers (Corporate Finance) Rupert Dearden (Corporate Broking) WG Partners LLP (Joint Bookrunner and Joint Broker) David Wilson, Claes Spang, Satheesh Nadarajah, Erland Sternby [phone] ICR Healthcare Mary-Jane Elliott, Angela Gray, Lindsey Neville [phone] [e-mail] Winterflood Retail Access Platform [e-mail] Joe Winkley, Sophia Bechev 0203 100 0286

Further information on the Company can be found on its website at www.scancell.co.uk.

The Company's LEI is 2138008RXEG856SNP666.

This announcement should be read in its entirety. In particular, the information in the "Important Notices" section of the announcement should be read and understood.

Important Notices

The content of this announcement, which has been prepared by and is the sole responsibility of the Company.

This announcement and the information contained herein is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into or from the United States (including its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia (the "United States" or "US")), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, any member state of the EEA or any other jurisdiction where to do so might constitute a violation of the relevant laws or regulations of such jurisdiction.

The Retail Offer Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act") or under the applicable state securities laws of the United States and may not be offered or sold directly or indirectly in or into the United States. No public offering of the Retail Offer Shares is being made in the United States. The Retail Offer Shares are being offered and sold outside the United States in "offshore transactions", as defined in, and in compliance with, Regulation S under the US Securities Act ("Regulation S") to non-US persons (within the meaning of Regulation S).

This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or issue or a solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for Retail Offer Shares in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, any member state of the EEA or any other jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is or may be unlawful. No public offer of the securities referred to herein is being made in any such jurisdiction.

The distribution of this announcement may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions and persons into whose possession any document or other information referred to herein comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restriction. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

WRAP is a proprietary technology platform owned and operated by Winterflood Securities Ltd (registered address at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London EC4R 3GA; FRN 141455). Winterflood Securities Ltd ("Winterflood") is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting exclusively for the Company and for no-one else and will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this announcement) as its client in relation to the Retail Offer and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients, nor for providing advice in connection with the Retail Offer, Admission and the other arrangements referred to in this announcement.

The value of Ordinary Shares and the income from them is not guaranteed and can fall as well as rise due to stock market movements. When you sell your investment, you may get back less than you originally invested. Figures refer to past performance and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Returns may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations.

Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements which are based on the Company's expectations, intentions and projections regarding its future performance, anticipated events or trends and other matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements, which may use words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "expect" and words of similar meaning, include all matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause the actual results of operations, financial condition, liquidity and dividend policy and the development of the industries in which the Company's businesses operate to differ materially from the impression created by the forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Given those risks and uncertainties, prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements speak only as at the date of this announcement and cannot be relied upon as a guide to future performance. The Company and Winterflood expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect actual results or any change in the assumptions, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based unless required to do so by the Financial Conduct Authority, London Stock Exchange plc or applicable law.

The information in this announcement is for background purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. None of Winterflood or any of its affiliates, accepts any responsibility or liability whatsoever for, or makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to this announcement, including the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information in this announcement (or whether any information has been omitted from the announcement) or any other information relating to the Company or associated companies, whether written, oral or in a visual or electronic form, and howsoever transmitted or made available or for any loss howsoever arising from any use of the announcement or its contents or otherwise arising in connection therewith. Winterflood and its affiliates, accordingly disclaim all and any liability whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise which they might otherwise be found to have in respect of this announcement or its contents or otherwise arising in connection therewith.

Any indication in this announcement of the price at which the Ordinary Shares have been bought or sold in the past cannot be relied upon as a guide to future performance. Persons needing advice should consult an independent financial adviser. No statement in this announcement is intended to be a profit forecast and no statement in this announcement should be interpreted to mean that earnings or target dividend per share of the Company for the current or future financial years would necessarily match or exceed the historical published earnings or dividends per share of the Company.

Neither the content of the Company's website (or any other website) nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into or forms part of this announcement. The Retail Offer Shares to be issued or sold pursuant to the Retail Offer will not be admitted to trading on any stock exchange other than London Stock Exchange plc.

It is further noted that the Retail Offer is only open to investors in the United Kingdom who fall within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (which includes an existing member of the Company).

Panmure Liberum Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom, is acting as Nominated Adviser, joint bookrunner and joint broker to the Company in connection with the Placing. Panmure Liberum Limited has not authorised the contents of, or any part of, this announcement, and no liability whatsoever is accepted by Panmure Liberum Limited for the accuracy of any information or opinions contained in this announcement or for the omission of any material information. The responsibilities of Panmure Liberum Limited as the Company's Nominated Adviser under the AIM Rules for Companies and the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers are owed solely to London Stock Exchange plc and are not owed to the Company or to any director or shareholder of the Company or any other person, in respect of its decision to acquire shares in the capital of the Company in reliance on any part of this announcement, or otherwise.

WG Partners LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom, is acting as joint bookrunner and joint broker to the Company in connection with the Placing. WG Partners LLP has not authorised the contents of, or any part of, this announcement, and no liability whatsoever is accepted by WG Partners LLP for the accuracy of any information or opinions contained in this announcement or for the omission of any material information. 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 WG Partners LLP or by any of its affiliates 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 therefor is expressly disclaimed.

 

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