Director Dealing and Issue of Equity

e-Therapeutics plc

09 January 2024

 

e-therapeutics plc

("e-therapeutics" or the "Company")

Director Dealing and Issue of Equity

London, UK, 9 January 2024 - e-therapeutics plc (AIM: ETX; OTCQX; ETXPF), a company integrating computational power and biological data to discover life-transforming RNAi medicines, today announces that on 9 January 2024, Professor Trevor Jones (Non-Executive Chairman of the Company) subscribed for a total of 91,325 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") at a price of 8.28 pence per share. The subscription monies paid for the New Ordinary Shares represent 50% of Professor Jones' Non-Executive Director fees net of tax paid during the period from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2023 in accordance with the agreement entered into with Professor Jones, previously announced on 5 October 2016, by which Professor Jones agreed, with effect from 1 October 2016, to invest 50% of his annual Non-Executive Director fees net of tax in new e-therapeutics' ordinary shares. Such new shares are issued to Professor Jones on the first business day after 31 December and 30 June in each year. The subscription price to be paid is the average of the closing mid-market price for the five business days prior to the date of issue. 

Application has been made to AIM for the admission of the New Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission") and Admission is expected to occur at 8:00 a.m. on or around 15 January 2024. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing ordinary shares in issue.

Following Admission, Professor Jones will be interested in a total of 1,293,896 ordinary shares of 0.1p in the Company, representing approximately 0.22% of the Company's issued share capital.

Following Admission, the total number of ordinary shares in the Company with voting rights in issue will be 583,935,487. This figure may be used by shareholders 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further details:

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Trevor Jones
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Non-Executive Chairman
b)	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	e-therapeutics plc
b)	LEI	21380049RHSSJXWKYT18
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 0.1 pence ISIN: GB00B2823H99
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	91,325 ordinary shares at a price of 8.28 pence per share
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	91,325 ordinary shares 8.28 pence per share Aggregated value: £7,561.71
e)	Date of the transaction	9 January 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

Enquiries:

e-therapeutics plc
Ali Mortazavi, CEO Timothy Bretherton, CFO	Tel: [phone] www.etherapeutics.co.uk
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP	Tel: [phone]
Nominated Adviser and Broker
Matthew Johnson/Harry Davies-Ball (Corporate Finance)
Vadim Alexandre/Rob Rees (Corporate Broking)

About e-therapeutics plc

e-therapeutics plc ("ETX") integrates computational power and biology information to discover life-transforming RNAi medicines. The Company's technology uses computation to capture and model human biology, identify novel targets, and develop RNAi medicines against those targets that can be rapidly progressed to the clinic. 

ETX's proprietary HepNet™ platform enables the generation and analysis of biological network models, providing a novel and mechanistic approach to drug discovery. This approach explicitly considers the true complexity of biology to make more reliable predictions from large complex data sets and ETX's proprietary hepatocyte knowledgebase - the world's most comprehensive and integrated hepatocyte-centric data resource.  The Company generates, prioritises, and tests millions of hypotheses in silico to identify better therapeutic targets with higher confidence.

GalOmic™, ETX's proprietary RNAi platform, enables targeted delivery to hepatocytes in the liver and the specific silencing of novel disease-associated genes, identified by HepNet™. The focus on hepatocytes offers the opportunity to tackle a wide variety of diseases.  The liver is a highly metabolically active organ which performs a key role in many biological processes and vital functions crucial for human health. ETX's GalOmic™ constructs have demonstrated compelling in vivo performance in terms of depth of gene silencing and duration of action.

The Company is progressing a pipeline of first-in-class RNAi candidates across a variety of therapeutic areas with high unmet need, including preclinical programs in cardiometabolic and metabolic diseases, haemophilia, and other undisclosed indications. ETX has also partnered with biopharma companies such as Novo Nordisk, Galapagos NV and iTeos Therapeutics using its computational network biology approach across a diverse range of drug discovery projects.

The Company is based in London, UK and listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM"), with ticker symbol ETX.

 

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