Result of Placing

RNS Number : 1029S

Ergomed plc

28 September 2017

 

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Ergomed plc

Result of Placing

London, UK - 28 September 2017: Ergomed plc (AIM: ERGO) ("Ergomed" or the "Company"), a specialised pharmaceutical services and drug development company, is pleased to announce the result of the placing announced earlier today (the "Placing").

A total of 1,757,576 new ordinary shares in the Company of 1p each (the "Placing Shares") have been conditionally placed at a price of 165p per Placing Share (the "Placing Price"), raising proceeds of £2.9m (before expenses) to part-fund the acquisition of PSR Group BV.

The Placing Shares to be issued represent approximately 4.3% of the Company's existing issued ordinary share capital. The Placing Price represents a discount of approximately 4.1% to the Company's last 30 trading days volume weighted average price.

Numis Securities Limited ("Numis") and N+1 Singer Advisory LLP ("N+1 Singer") have acted as joint bookrunners in respect of the Placing. Other than where defined, capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the announcement released by the Company this morning at 7.00 a.m.

Director participation

The participation of Directors of Ergomed who have taken up Placing Shares at the Placing Price is as follows:

Director	Interest in Ordinary Shares	Aggregate value of Ordinary Shares to be acquired (£)	Number of Ordinary Shares to be acquired	Interest in Ordinary Shares following the Placing	Resulting holding of Ordinary Shares as % of enlarged issued share capital
Peter George	231,250	74,250.00	45,000	276,250	0.65%

Admission

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is currently expected that settlement of all of the Placing Shares and Admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 2 October 2017. The Placing is conditional upon, inter alia, Admission becoming effective and the Placing Agreement becoming unconditional and not being terminated in accordance with its terms.

Total voting rights

Following Admission the number of ordinary shares of 1 penny each in the capital of the Company in issue and number of voting rights will be 42,680,813.  The above figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether 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.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Peter George
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chairman
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Ergomed Plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800BVS8I9VMC1AP84
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 1 pence each  GB00BN7ZCY67
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		165p	45,000
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total	45,000 165p £74,250.00
f)	Date of the transaction	28 September 2017
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

Enquiries:

Ergomed plc		Tel: [phone]
Dan Weng (Chief Executive Officer)
Stephen Stamp (Chief Financial Officer)
Numis Securities Limited		Tel: [phone]
Michael Meade / Freddie Barnfield (Nominated Adviser)
James Black (Joint Broker)
N+1 Singer		Tel: [phone]
Alex Price (Joint Broker) Michael Taylor
Consilium Strategic Communications - for UK enquiries		Tel: [phone]
Chris Gardner / Mary-Jane Elliott Ivar Milligan / Philippa Gardner	[e-mail]
MC Services - for Continental European enquiries		Tel: [phone]
Anne Hennecke

About Ergomed

Ergomed provides specialist services to the pharmaceutical industry and develops drugs both wholly-owned and through partnerships. Ergomed's fast-growing, profitable service offering spans all phases of clinical development and post-approval pharmacovigilance and medical information. Drawing on more than 20 years of expertise in drug development, Ergomed is also building a growing portfolio of drug development partnerships and programmes, including wholly-owned proprietary products for the treatment of surgical bleeding. For further information, visit: http://ergomedplc.com

About PSR

PSR, established in 1998, is a full service specialist orphan drug CRO and recognised as a leading expert in the rare disease niche. PSR specialises in running complex orphan drug development programs requiring innovative regulatory and clinical approaches as well as pricing and reimbursement strategies. Besides outsourced project solutions, PSR provides insourced staffing solutions (orphan drug teams), temporary & permanent staffing, interim management solutions as well as training / coaching career programs.

PSR's dedication to the rare disease landscape is exemplified by an extensive track record of orphan drug projects in a wide range of therapeutic areas, its continued efforts to achieve true patient centricity and its societal commitments by participation in fundraising  activities and public-private partnerships. For further information, visit:    http://www.psr-group.com.

This announcement contains inside information which is disclosed in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.

Each of Numis Securities Limited and Nplus1 Singer Advisory LLP, both of which are regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting for the Company and no one else in connection with the Placing, and will not be responsible to any person other than the Company for providing the regulatory and legal protections afforded to their respective clients nor for providing advice in relation to the contents of this Announcement or any matter, transaction or arrangement referred to in it.

This Announcement includes statements, estimates, opinions and projections with respect to anticipated future performance of the Company or future events ("forward-looking statements") which reflect various assumptions concerning anticipated results or events which may or may not prove to be correct. These forward looking statements can be identified by the use of forward looking terminology, including the terms "anticipates", "target", "believes", "estimates", "expects", "intends", "may", "plans", "projects", "should" or "will", or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology or by discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, goals, future events or intentions. Such forward-looking statements reflect current expectations based on the current business plan and various other assumptions and involve significant risks and uncertainties and should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such results will be achieved. As a result, prospective investors should not rely on such forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. No representation or warranty is given as to the completeness or accuracy of the forward-looking statements contained in this Announcement. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of such statements and, except as required by the FCA, the London Stock Exchange or applicable law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. 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 per share of the Company for the current or future financial years would necessarily match or exceed the historical published earnings per share of the Company.  The price of 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 Placing Shares.

The distribution of this Announcement and the offering of the Placing Shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. No action has been taken by the Company or the Bookrunners that would permit an offering of the Placing Shares or possession or distribution of this Announcement or any other offering or publicity material relating to the Placing Shares in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this Announcement comes are required by the Company and the Bookrunners to inform themselves about, and to observe, such restrictions.

The Placing Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing will not be admitted to trading on any stock exchange other than the London Stock Exchange.

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

 

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