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Arecor Therapeutics PLC

08 November 2022

Arecor Therapeutics plc

("Arecor", the "Company" or the "Group")

Exercise of rollover options, PDMR dealing and Total Voting Rights

Cambridge, UK, 8 November 2022: Arecor Therapeutics plc (AIM: AREC), the biopharmaceutical group advancing today's therapies to enable healthier lives , announces that it has issued and allotted 131,433 new Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each in the share capital of the Company following an exercise of options on 7 November 2022 at an exercise price of 1 pence per Ordinary Share. The options exercised were part of the rollover of share options previously granted under the historic Arecor Limited EMI Share Option Plan 2018 ("Option Rollover"). Details of the Option Rollover are set out in the Company's Admission Document.

Included in the exercise of options were options over 109,958 ordinary shares held by Directors/PDMRs of the Company as detailed in the table below:

 
 Director/ PDMR       Position               Existing            Number of          Resultant           Rollover 
                                             interest in         Options over       interest in         options 
                                             Ordinary Shares     Ordinary           Ordinary Shares     remaining 
                                                                 Shares                                 after exercise 
                                                                 exercised 
 David Gerring        VP, Development        151,292             3,334              154,626             0 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
                      Chief Executive 
 Sarah Howell          Officer               847,072             20,666             867,738             0 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
                      Chief Scientific 
 Jan Jezek             Officer               404,474             3,334              407,808             0 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
                      VP, Clinical & 
                       Regulatory 
 Fiona Lawrence        Affairs               70,334              1,666              72,000              0 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
                      Chief Financial 
 Susan Lowther         Officer               139,849             62,000             201,849             0 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
 James                VP, Business 
  MacDonald-Clink      Development           25,000              18,958             43,958              16,042 
                     -------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------  ----------------- 
 

Admission

Following the above transactions, application has been made for the 131,433 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and dealings are expected to commence on, or around, 11 November 2022. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following Admission will be 30,618,183 accordingly, the figure of 30,618,183 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 and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Arecor Therapeutics plc                   www.arecor.com 
 Dr Sarah Howell, Chief Executive          Tel: +44 (0) 1223 426060 
  Officer                                   Email: info@arecor.com 
 
 Susan Lowther, Chief Financial Officer    Tel: +44 (0) 1223 426060 
                                            Email: info@arecor.com 
 
 Mo Noonan, Communications                 Tel: +44 (0) 7876 444977 
                                            Email: mo.noonan@arecor.com 
 
 
   Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited               Tel: +44 (0) 20 7886 2500 
   (NOMAD and Broker) 
   Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl (Corporate 
   Finance) 
   Rupert Dearden (Corporate Broking) 
 
 
   Consilium Strategic Communications 
 Chris Gardner, David Daley, Angela        Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700 
  Gray                                      Email: arecor@consilium-comms.com 
 

Notes to Editors

About Arecor

Arecor Therapeutics plc is a globally focused biopharmaceutical company transforming patient care by bringing innovative medicines to market through the enhancement of existing therapeutic products. By applying our innovative proprietary formulation technology platform, Arestat(TM), we are developing an internal portfolio of proprietary products in diabetes and other indications, as well as working with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to deliver enhanced formulations of their therapeutic products. The Arestat (TM) platform is supported by an extensive patent portfolio.

For further details please see our website, www.arecor.com

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
      Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
       closely associated 
 a)   Name:                                   a) David Gerring 
                                               b) Sarah Howell 
                                               c) Jan Jezek 
                                               d) Fiona Lawrence 
                                               e) Susan Lowther 
                                               f) James MacDonald-Clink 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 2.   Reason for the notification 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status:                              a) VP, Development 
                                                     b) Chief Executive Officer 
                                                     c) Chief Scientific Officer 
                                                     d) VP, Clinical & Regulatory 
                                                     Affairs 
                                                     e) Chief Financial Officer 
                                                     f) VP, Business Development 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification/Amendment:    Initial notification 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 3.   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name:                              Arecor Therapeutics plc 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI:                               98450093D12I3A8DDD58 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 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       Ordinary shares of 1 pence 
       instrument, type of instrument:    each 
       Identification code:               GB00BMWLM973 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of the transaction:         Exercise of options over ordinary 
                                          shares 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s):              Price(s)     Volume(s) 
                                            a) GBP0.01   a) 3,334 
                                                        ---------- 
                                            b) GBP0.01   b) 20,666 
                                                        ---------- 
                                            c) GBP0.01   c) 3,334 
                                                        ---------- 
                                            d) GBP0.01   d) 1,666 
                                                        ---------- 
                                            e) GBP0.01   e) 62,000 
                                                        ---------- 
                                            f) GBP0.01   f) 18,958 
                                                        ---------- 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated information: 
        *    Aggregated volume:            109,958 
                                           GBP0.01 
 
        *    Price: 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the transaction:           07 November 2022 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of the transaction:          London Stock Exchange, AIM 
                                          Market (XLON) 
     ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 

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