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RNS Number : 4527T  Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc  21 June 2024

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

21 JUNE 2024

 

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc ("Oxford Nanopore" or "the Company")

 

Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

 

The Company today announces in respect of the period from 1 June to 21 June
2024, the issue of 11,097,812 ordinary shares of £0.0001 each, following:

 

·      the issue of 11,041,901 ordinary shares to satisfy the vesting of
awards under Oxford Nanopore's Long Term Incentive Plan; and

 

·      the exercise of options granted under the Company's share option
plans and issuance of shares under certain of the Company's remuneration
schemes and such ordinary shares were admitted to the Official List of the
Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and to trading on the London Stock
Exchange's main market for listed securities under the Company's block listing
facility. Following this issue, the Company has the ability to admit a further
19,436,423 ordinary shares under its block listing facility.

 

In accordance with the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 5.6.1,
the Company announces that as at 21 June 2024, the Company's issued share
capital consisted of 873,921,325 ordinary shares, one class A limited
anti-takeover ("LAT") share of £1.00, one class B LAT share of £1.00 and one
class C LAT share of £1.00 and the Company will not hold any shares in
treasury. Only the ordinary shares are voting shares and each such ordinary
share carries one vote per ordinary share. Accordingly, the total number of
voting rights in the Company as at 21 June 2024 is 873,921,325. 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance
and Transparency Rules.

 

For further information, please contact:

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc

Investors:          ir@nanoporetech.com (mailto:ir@nanoporetech.com)

Media:              media@nanoporetech.com
(mailto:media@nanoporetech.com)

 

Teneo (communications adviser to the Company)

Tom Murray, Olivia Peters

+44 (0) 20 7353 4200

OxfordNanoporeTechnologies@teneo.com
(mailto:OxfordNanoporeTechnologies@teneo.com)

About Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc:

Oxford Nanopore Technologies' goal is to bring the widest benefits to society
through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company
has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for
real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA.
The technology is used in more than 120 countries to understand the biology of
humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria,

 

viruses and whole environments. Oxford Nanopore Technologies products are
intended for molecular biology applications and are not intended for
diagnostic purposes.

www.nanoporetech.com (http://www.nanoporetech.com)

 

Forward-looking statements

This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. For example,
statements regarding expected revenue growth and profit margins are
forward-looking statements. Phrases such as "aim", "plan", "expect", "intend",
"anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "target", and similar expressions of a
future or forward-looking nature should also be considered forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements address our expected future business
and financial performance and financial condition, and by definition address
matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. Our results could be
affected by macroeconomic conditions, the COVID-19 pandemic, delays in our
receipt of components or our delivery of products to our customers,
suspensions of large projects and/or acceleration of large products or
accelerated adoption of pathogen surveillance. These or other uncertainties
may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those
expressed in our forward-looking statements.

 

 

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