Placing and Open Offer Close

RNS Number : 5830R

Scancell Holdings Plc

09 March 2016

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS RESTRICTED AND IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN, OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND OR SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE SAME WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. 

FURTHER, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR ISSUE OR THE SOLICITATION TO BUY, SUBSCRIBE FOR OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRE ANY ORDINARY SHARES OF SEAL IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH ANY SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT SHOULD BE READ IN ITS ENTIRETY.  IN PARTICULAR, YOU SHOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE "IMPORTANT NOTICES" SECTION AND IN THE APPENDICES.

09 March 2016

Scancell Holdings Plc

Firm Placing Raises £3.4 million

Scancell Holdings plc (LSE:AIM SCLP) ("Scancell" or the "Company"), the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Firm Placing announced earlier today.

The Company has conditionally raised, in aggregate, £3.4 million (before expenses) by way of the placing of 20,000,000 new ordinary shares at the placing price of 17 pence per share. The Placing Price represents a discount of 16 per cent. to the mid-market closing price on 8 March 2016, being the last practicable date prior to the date of this announcement.

The new ordinary shares will be issued credited as fully paid and will be identical to, and rank pari passu in all respects with, the Existing Ordinary Shares following the date of Admission.

A circular to shareholders, including further details of the Open Offer will be despatched to shareholders on or around 11 March 2016 and will also be available on the Company's website, www.scancell.co.uk., at this time.

Director Dealings

All of the Directors of the Company have participated in the Firm Placing, as set out in the table below:

	As at the date of this announcement			Following Admission*
	Ordinary shares	percentage of issued Ordinary Share capital	Firm Placing  Shares	Ordinary shares	percentage of issued Ordinary Share capital
Lindy Durrant #	10,480,920	4.66%	58,823	10,539,743	3.94%
Richard Goodfellow #	6,643,840	2.95%	58,823	6,702,663	2.51%
John Chiplin	Nil	Nil	58,823	58,823	0.02%
Matthew Frohn	Nil	Nil	58,823	58,823	0.02%
Kate Cornish-Bowden	45,000	0.02%	58,823	103,823	0.04%
Sally Adams	Nil	Nil	58,823	58,823	0.02%

# In the table above, the number of Ordinary Shares held by two of the Directors includes their interests in joint ownership shares. Professor Lindy Durrant has an interest in 8,873,960 joint ownership shares and Dr. Richard Goodfellow in 6,443,840 joint ownership shares.

* These numbers and percentages are calculated assuming that the Firm Placing completes and the Offer Shares are fully taken up by Shareholders other than the Directors and that none of the outstanding share options are exercised. It is possible that Directors will take up some or all of their basic and excess entitlements pursuant to the Open Offer and, if this occurs, the Company will make an announcement via a Regulatory Information Service at the appropriate time.

For further information please contact:

Scancell Holdings Plc Dr Richard Goodfellow, Joint CEO Professor Lindy Durrant, Joint CEO	+ 44 (0) 20 3727 1000
Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and placing agent) Robert Naylor/Paul Fincham, Corporate Finance Maisie Atkinson, Sales	[phone]
Lesmoir-Gordon, Boyle & Co. Limited (Sub placing agent) Angus Grierson	[phone]
FTI Consulting Mo Noonan Simon Conway	+ 44 (0) 20 3727 1000

All defined terms used in this announcement are defined, unless otherwise defined here, in the appendix to the Proposed Placing and Open Offer announcement made earlier today.

 

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