24th Sep 2019 12:30
ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE BY THE AIM APPLICANT PRIOR TO ADMISSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 2 OF THE AIM RULES FOR COMPANIES ("AIM RULES") | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMPANY NAME: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amryt Pharma plc
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COMPANY REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS AND IF DIFFERENT, COMPANY TRADING ADDRESS (INCLUDING POSTCODES) : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered office address: Dept 920a, 196 High Road, Wood Green, London N22 8HH, United Kingdom
Principal trading address: 90 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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COUNTRY OF INCORPORATION: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
England and Wales
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COMPANY WEBSITE ADDRESS CONTAINING ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY AIM RULE 26: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
www.amrytpharma.com
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COMPANY BUSINESS (INCLUDING MAIN COUNTRY OF OPERATION) OR, IN THE CASE OF AN INVESTING COMPANY, DETAILS OF ITS INVESTING POLICY). IF THE ADMISSION IS SOUGHT AS A RESULT OF A REVERSE TAKE-OVER UNDER RULE 14, THIS SHOULD BE STATED: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amryt Pharma plc ("Existing Amryt") is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering innovative new treatments to help improve the lives of patients with rare or orphan diseases. Existing Amryt is the marketing authorisation holder and has an exclusive licence to sell lomitapide across the European Economic Area, Middle East and North Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, Israel, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the non-EU Balkan states.
Lomitapide (under the brand LOJUXTA®) is an approved treatment for adult patients with the rare cholesterol disorder - Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolaemia ("HoFH"). This disorder impairs the body's ability to remove low density lipoprotein ("LDL") cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) from the blood. Existing Amryt has also been developing its lead development candidate, AP101, a potential treatment for Epidermolysis Bullosa ("EB"), a rare genetic skin disorder affecting young children and adults for which there is currently no treatment. AP101 is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials. In March 2018, Existing Amryt in-licenced a pre-clinical gene-therapy platform technology, AP103, which offers a potential treatment for patients with recessive dystrophic EB, a subset of EB, and is also potentially relevant to other genetic disorders.
Existing Amryt's shares are admitted to trading on AIM and the Euronext Growth Market operated by Euronext Dublin.
Existing Amryt has entered into agreements to acquire the entire issued share capital of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Aegerion"), further details of which are included in the admission document published by Existing Amryt on 27 August 2019 (the "Transaction").
The Transaction constitutes a reverse takeover under Rule 14 of the AIM Rules for Companies ("AIM Rules"). The Transaction is conditional upon, inter alia, Existing Amryt receiving shareholder approval for the Transaction including the waiver of obligations under Rule 9 of the Takeover Code, and certain other conditions being satisfied, including the completion of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process ("Chapter 11") by Aegerion in the USA and a scheme of arrangement becoming effective pursuant to which a new holding company for the Existing Amryt group, as enlarged by the Transaction, will be put in place. The new holding company is currently registered as Amryt Pharma Holdings Limited ("New Amryt"). New Amryt will be re-registered as a public limited company prior to admission of its ordinary shares of 6 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") to trading on AIM ("Admission") and renamed to Amryt Pharma plc, exchanging its name with Existing Amryt prior to Admission.
Aegerion is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing new standards of care for individuals living with rare and orphan diseases. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aegerion maintains operations in the United States, Europe and certain countries in Latin America. Aegerion has two commercial products, metreleptin and lomitapide.
Metreleptin, a recombinant analog of human leptin, is marketed in the US under the brand name MYALEPT® and as MYALEPTA® in the EU. MYALEPT® is approved in the US as an adjunct to diet as replacement therapy to treat the complications of leptin deficiency in patients with congenital or acquired generalised lipodystrophy ("GL"). MYALEPTA® is approved in the EU as a treatment for leptin deficiency in patients with congenital or acquired GL in adults and children two years of age and above and familial or acquired partial lipodystrophy in adults and children 12 or over for whom standard treatments have failed to achieve adequate metabolic control.
Lomitapide is marketed in the US by Aegerion under the brand name JUXTAPID® as an adjunct to a low-fat diet and other lipid-lowering treatments, including low-density lipoprotein to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, apolipoprotein B and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in adult patients with HoFH and in the EU under the brand name LOJUXTA®, for the treatment of adult patients with HoFH. JUXTAPID® is also approved in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Japan and a limited number of other countries. LOJUXTA® is licenced to Existing Amryt for sale in the territories noted above.
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DETAILS OF SECURITIES TO BE ADMITTED INCLUDING ANY RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRANSFER OF THE SECURITIES (i.e. where known, number and type of shares, nominal value and issue price to which it seeks admission and the number and type to be held as treasury shares): | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
157,718,438 Ordinary Shares
No Ordinary Shares are to be held in treasury.
No restriction as to the transfer of the securities.
On Admission, 1,036,054 Ordinary Shares will be issued to an escrow account to be held in reserve to satisfy any disputed Aegerion Chapter 11 claims that are ultimately allowed under the plan of reorganisation, pursuant to the claims reconciliation process in the Chapter 11. Should there be no such allowed claims, these Ordinary Shares will be allotted to Aegerion creditors with allowed claims in proportion to their allowed claim amounts against Aegerion.
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CAPITAL TO BE RAISED ON ADMISSION (AND/OR SECONDARY OFFERING) AND ANTICIPATED MARKET CAPITALISATION ON ADMISSION: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital to be raised on Admission: $60 million (approximately £48 million) before expenses
Anticipated market capitalisation on Admission: $282 million (approximately £227 million)
Note: Sterling amounts are calculated using exchange rate of £1: $1.2485. The market capitalisation on Admission is based on the issue price of the capital to be raised on Admission, being $1.79 (£1.44) per new Ordinary Share at the exchange rate stated above.
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PERCENTAGE OF AIM SECURITIES NOT IN PUBLIC HANDS AT ADMISSION: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31.25 per cent.
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DETAILS OF ANY OTHER EXCHANGE OR TRADING PLATFORM TO WHICH THE AIM SECURITIES (OR OTHER SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY) ARE OR WILL BE ADMITTED OR TRADED: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Company's Ordinary Shares are also expected to be admitted to trading on the Euronext Growth Market operated by Euronext Dublin.
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FULL NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND PROPOSED DIRECTORS (underlining the first name by which each is known or including any other name by which each is known): | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current Directors Harry Thomas Stratford - Non-executive Chairman Joseph Amrit Wiley - Chief Executive Officer Rory Peter Nealon - Chief Financial Officer Anthony James Culverwell - Non-executive Director Ray Thomas Stafford - Non-executive Director Markus Ziener - Non-executive Director
Proposed Directors on admission Ray Thomas Stafford - Non-executive Chairman Joseph Amrit Wiley - Chief Executive Officer George Paul Hampton Jr - Non-executive Director Alain Henri Munoz - Non-executive Director Donald Kenneth Stern - Non-executive Director Patrick Volkert Jozef Joihannes Vink - Non-executive Director Stephen Thomas Wills - Non-executive Director
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FULL NAMES AND HOLDINGS OF SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDERS EXPRESSED AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL, BEFORE AND AFTER ADMISSION (underlining the first name by which each is known or including any other name by which each is known): | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 Figures are stated insofar as Amryt Pharma plc is aware as at 23 September 2019 based on the total voting rights on that date 2 Figures are stated insofar as Amryt Pharma plc is aware as at 23 September 2019 based on the total voting rights on Admission 3 Funds managed by Highbridge Capital Management, LLC also elected to receive 12,111,625 warrants rather than Ordinary Shares in respect of the receipt of consideration for the Transaction and in respect of their participation in the fundraise on Admission 4 Funds managed by UBS O'Connor, LLC also elected to receive 1,865,097 warrants rather than Ordinary Shares in respect of the receipt of consideration for the Transaction and in respect of their participation in the fundraise on Admission
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NAMES OF ALL PERSONS TO BE DISCLOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULE 2, PARAGRAPH (H) OF THE AIM RULES: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
None
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(i) ANTICIPATED ACCOUNTING REFERENCE DATE (ii) DATE TO WHICH THE MAIN FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN THE ADMISSION DOCUMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED (this may be represented by unaudited interim financial information) (iii) DATES BY WHICH IT MUST PUBLISH ITS FIRST THREE REPORTS PURSUANT TO AIM RULES 18 AND 19: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(i) 31 December (ii) 31 December 2018 (iii) 30 September 2019, in respect of Existing Amryt's half yearly report to 30 June 2019 30 June 2020, in respect of New Amryt's annual report to 31 December 2019 30 September 2020, in respect of New Amryt's half yearly report to 30 June 2020
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EXPECTED ADMISSION DATE: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 September 2019
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NAME AND ADDRESS OF NOMINATED ADVISER: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shore Capital and Corporate Limited Cassini House 57 St James's Street London SW1A 1LD United Kingdom
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NAME AND ADDRESS OF BROKER: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited Cassini House 57 St James's Street London SW1A 1LD United Kingdom
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited 150 Cheapside London EC2V 6ET United Kingdom
J & E Davy Davy House 49 Dawson Street Dublin 2 Ireland
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OTHER THAN IN THE CASE OF A QUOTED APPLICANT, DETAILS OF WHERE (POSTAL OR INTERNET ADDRESS) THE ADMISSION DOCUMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM, WITH A STATEMENT THAT THIS WILL CONTAIN FULL DETAILS ABOUT THE APPLICANT AND THE ADMISSION OF ITS SECURITIES: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Admission Document, which contains full details about the Company and the admission of its Ordinary Shares, is available to view on the Company's website: www.amrytpharma.com
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THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODE THE APPLICANT HAS DECIDED TO APPLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
QCA Corporate Governance Code
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DATE OF NOTIFICATION: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 September 2019
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