Exercise of Over-allotment Option

RNS Number : 2544J

Uniphar PLC

16 August 2019

 

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16 August 2019

UNIPHAR PLC

Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

Uniphar plc (the "Company") today announces that, in connection with its Placing and Admission (the "Offering"), J&E Davy, as stabilisation manager, has given notice to exercise the over-allotment option granted by Uniphar plc in respect of 3,818,004 Ordinary Shares in the Company (the "Over-allotment Shares") amounting to €4.39 million of further gross proceeds payable to the Company resulting in total gross proceeds of €139 million from the Placing.

Application has been made for 3,818,004 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on Euronext Growth, a market operated by Euronext Dublin and AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. It is expected that such admission will occur at 8.00 a.m. (Dublin time) on 21 August 2019.

Following the exercise of the Over-allotment Option and issue of the 3,818,004 Over-allotment Shares, the total issued share capital of the Company will be 273,015,254 Ordinary Shares.

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For further details contact:

Uniphar                                                                                    Brian O'Shaughnessy Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Development	[phone] [e-mail]
Davy (Joint Broker, Nominated Adviser and Euronext Growth Adviser)           Fergal Meegan Barry Murphy Tom Tynan	[phone]
RBC Capital Markets (Joint Broker)                                                                   Darrell Uden Jonathan Hardy Thomas Debrosse	[phone]
Q4 PR (Public Relations Adviser to Uniphar)                                       Iarla Mongey	[phone] or [phone]

About Uniphar plc

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Uniphar plc is a diversified healthcare services business servicing the requirements of more than 200 multinational pharmaceutical and medical technology manufacturers across three divisions - Commercial & Clinical, Product Access, and Supply Chain & Retail. With a workforce of more than 2,000, the Group is active in Ireland, the UK, the Benelux and the US.

In Commercial & Clinical, the Group provides sales, marketing and distribution solutions to pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers on an outsourced basis.

In Product Access, the Group is growing two distinct service offerings: 1) sourcing and supplying unlicensed medicines to meet the needs of pharmacy customers (On-Demand Access); and 2) managing the release of speciality medicines for pharmaceutical manufacturers to specifically approved patient populations (Exclusive Access).

Supply Chain & Retail is an Irish only business for the Group, with Uniphar being an established market leader in Ireland with c.50% of the wholesale market servicing retail pharmacy, supported by a network of 235 owned and franchised pharmacies.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

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This announcement is an advertisement and not a prospectus or admission document, and investors should not purchase or subscribe for any securities referred to in this announcement except on the basis of information in the Admission Document published by the Company in connection with the Offering. The Admission Document is available on the Company's website, www.uniphar.ie, subject to certain access restrictions. 

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