29th May 2018 16:10
29 MAY 2018
BioPharma Credit plc
(the "Company")
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
INCLUDING A RECOMMENDED PROPOSAL
FOR THE APPROVAL OF A RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION
Following the publication on 7 March 2018 of its Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2017, the Company announces that it will hold its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") at 11 a.m. on 29 June 2018 at the offices of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EG.
Alongside the ordinary business to be considered at the AGM and as disclosed in the prospectus related to the Company's C Share issue dated 14 March 2018, the Company is seeking shareholders' approval of a related party transaction in respect of the amendment to the Investment Management Agreement.
A copy of the Notice of the AGM is available to view on the Company's website at http://www.bpcruk.com. It has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/NSM.
Copies of the Notice of the AGM, together with a form of proxy for use in connection with the AGM, are being posted or made available to the Company's Shareholders today.
Capitalised terms used in this announcement and not otherwise defined will have the meanings given to them in the Notice of AGM.
Enquiries
BioPharma Credit plc
via Link Company Matters Limited
Company Secretary
+44 (0)1392 477 509
Buchanan
+44 (0)20 7466 5000 / [email protected]
David Rydell
Mark Court
Jamie Hooper
Henry Wilson
Notes to Editors:
BioPharma Credit PLC is London's only listed specialist investor in debt from the life sciences industry and joined the LSE on 27th March 2017. The Company seeks to provide long-term shareholder returns, principally in the form of sustainable income distributions from exposure to the life sciences industry. The Company seeks to achieve this objective primarily through investments in debt assets secured by royalties or other cash flows derived from the sales of approved life sciences products.
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