NOT FOR RELEASE,
PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN
PART, OR INTO OR WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND,
CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA OR JAPAN, OR ANY MEMBER STATE OF THE EEA, OR
ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE, OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON TO WHOM, TO DO
SO MIGHT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OR BREACH OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR
REGULATION. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE COMMUNICATION OF
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR MATERIALS RELATING TO
THE WRAP RETAIL OFFER AS A FINANCIAL PROMOTION IS ONLY BEING MADE
TO, AND MAY ONLY BE ACTED UPON BY, THOSE PERSONS IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM FALLING WITHIN ARTICLE 43 OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND
MARKETS ACT 2000 (FINANCIAL PROMOTION) ORDER 2005, AS AMENDED
(WHICH INCLUDES AN EXISTING MEMBER OF PHYSIOMICS PLC). ANY
INVESTMENT OR INVESTMENT ACTIVITY TO WHICH THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
RELATES IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO SUCH PERSONS AND WILL BE ENGAGED IN
ONLY WITH SUCH PERSONS. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL
PURPOSES ONLY, AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR FORM PART OF ANY OFFER OR
INVITATION TO SELL OR ISSUE, OR ANY SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO
PURCHASE OR SUBSCRIBE FOR, ANY SECURITIES OF PHYSIOMICS
PLC.
13 February 2025
Physiomics plc
("Physiomics" or the "Company")
WRAP Retail Offer for up to £70,000
Physiomics plc (AIM: PYC), a leading mathematical
modelling, data science and biostatistics company supporting the
development of new therapeutics and personalised medicine
solutions, is pleased to announce a retail offer via the
Winterflood Retail Access Platform ("WRAP") to raise up to £70,000
(the "WRAP Retail Offer")
through the issue of new ordinary shares of £0.004 each in the
capital of the Company ("Ordinary
Shares"). Under the WRAP Retail Offer up to 14,000,000
new Ordinary Shares (the "WRAP
Retail Offer Shares") will be made available at a price of
£0.005 per share.
In addition to the WRAP Retail Offer and as announced
at 7.00 a.m. on 13 February 2025, the Company is also proposing a
placing of new Ordinary Shares (the "Placing Shares" and together with the
WRAP Retail Offer Shares, the "New
Ordinary Shares") to raise approximately £500,000 (before
expenses) through a bookbuild process (the "Placing") at a price of £0.005 per
Placing Share (the "Placing
Price"). The Placing Price represents a discount of
approximately 37.5 per cent. to the mid-market closing price of an
Ordinary Share on 12 February 2025 (being the latest practicable
date prior to this announcement). The issue price of the WRAP
Retail Offer Shares is equal to the Placing Price.
A separate announcement has been made regarding the
Placing and its terms and sets out the reasons for the Placing and
use of proceeds. The proceeds of the WRAP Retail Offer will
be utilised in the same way as the proceeds of the Placing.
For the avoidance of doubt, the WRAP Retail Offer is
not part of the Placing. Completion of the WRAP Retail Offer is
conditional, inter alia, upon the completion of the Placing but
completion of the Placing is not conditional on the completion of
the WRAP Retail Offer.
The WRAP Retail Offer and the Placing are conditional
on the New Ordinary Shares being admitted to trading on AIM
("Admission"). It is
anticipated that Admission will become effective and that dealings
in the New Ordinary Shares will commence on AIM, on or around 8.00
a.m. on 18 February 2025.
WRAP Retail
Offer
The Company values its retail shareholder base and
believes that it is appropriate to provide its existing retail
shareholders in the United Kingdom the opportunity to participate
in the WRAP Retail Offer.
Therefore, the Company is making the WRAP Retail Offer
open to eligible investors in the United Kingdom, being existing
shareholders of Physiomics plc, following release of this
announcement and through certain financial intermediaries.
Existing shareholders can contact their broker or
wealth manager to participate in the WRAP Retail Offer.
The WRAP Retail Offer is expected to close at 11.00
a.m. on 17 February 2025. Eligible shareholders should note that
financial intermediaries may have earlier closing times.
Retail brokers wishing to participate in the WRAP
Retail Offer on behalf of existing retail shareholders, should
contact wrap@winterflood.com.
To be eligible to participate in the WRAP Retail
Offer, applicants must be a customer of a participating
intermediary and, as at the date hereof or will be, prior to
placing an order for WRAP Retail Offer Shares, shareholders in the
Company which may include individuals aged 18 years or over,
companies and other bodies corporate, partnerships, trusts,
associations and other unincorporated organisations.
There is a minimum subscription of £100 per investor
under the WRAP Retail Offer. The terms and conditions on which
investors subscribe will be provided by the relevant financial
intermediaries including relevant commission or fee charges.
The Company reserves the right to amend the size of
the retail offer at its discretion. The Company reserves the right
to scale back any order and to reject any application for
subscription under the WRAP Retail Offer without giving any reason
for such rejection.
It is vital to note that once an application for WRAP
Retail Offer Shares has been made and accepted via an intermediary,
it cannot be withdrawn.
The New Ordinary Shares will, when issued, be credited
as fully paid and will rank pari
passu in all respects with existing Ordinary Shares
including the right to receive all dividends and other
distributions declared, made or paid after their date of issue.
It is a term of the WRAP Retail Offer that the total
value of the WRAP Retail Offer Shares available for subscription at
the Placing Price does not exceed £70,000, or such size as agreed by the
Company.
The WRAP Retail Offer is offered in the United Kingdom
under the exemption from the requirement to publish a prospectus in
section 86(1)(e) of FSMA. As such, there is no need for publication
of a prospectus pursuant to the Prospectus Regulation Rules of the
Financial Conduct Authority, or for approval of the same by the
Financial Conduct Authority. The WRAP Retail Offer is not being
made into any jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom.
No offering document, prospectus or admission document
has been or will be prepared or submitted to be approved by the
Financial Conduct Authority (or any other authority) in relation to
the WRAP Retail Offer, and investors' commitments will be made
solely on the basis of the information contained in this
announcement and information that has been published by or on
behalf of the Company prior to the date of this announcement by
notification to a Regulatory Information Service in accordance with
the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules, the Market Abuse Regulation (EU Regulation No.
596/2014) ("MAR") and MAR as it forms part of United Kingdom law by
virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as
amended).
Investors should make their own investigations into
the merits of an investment in the Company. Nothing in this
announcement amounts to a recommendation to invest in the Company
or amounts to investment, taxation or legal advice.
It should be noted that a subscription for WRAP Retail
Offer Shares and investment in the Company carries a number of
risks. Investors should take independent advice from a person
experienced in advising on investment in securities such as the
WRAP Retail Offer Shares if they are in any doubt.
An investment in the Company will place capital at
risk. The value of investments, and any income, can go down as well
as up, so investors could get back less than the amount
invested.
Neither past performance nor any forecasts should be
considered a reliable indicator of future results.
For Further Information
Physiomics
plc
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+44 (0) 1235 841575
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Dr Peter Sargent, CEO
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Hybridan LLP
(Broker)
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+44 (0) 203 764 2341
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Claire Louise Noyce
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Strand Hanson
Limited (NOMAD)
James Dance & James Bellman
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+44 (0) 20 7409
3494
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Winterflood Retail
Access Platform
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WRAP@winterflood.com
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Joe Winkley, Sophia Bechev
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0203 100 0286
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Further information on the Company can be found on its
website at www.physiomics.co.uk
The Company's LEI is 213800A71DSZ6ABMTQ91.
This announcement should be read in its entirety. In
particular, the information in the "Important Notices" section of
the announcement should be read and understood.
Important
Notices
The content of this announcement, which has been
prepared by and is the sole responsibility of the Company.
This announcement and the information contained herein
is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or
indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into or from the United
States (including its territories and possessions, any state of the
United States and the District of Columbia (the "United States" or "US")), Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
Japan, the Republic of South Africa, any member state of the EEA or
any other jurisdiction where to do so might constitute a violation
of the relevant laws or regulations of such jurisdiction.
The WRAP Retail Offer Shares have not been and will
not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "US Securities Act")
or under the applicable state securities laws of the United States
and may not be offered or sold directly or indirectly in or into
the United States. No public offering of the WRAP Retail Offer
Shares is being made in the United States. The WRAP Retail Offer
Shares are being offered and sold outside the United States in
"offshore transactions", as
defined in, and in compliance with, Regulation S under the US
Securities Act ("Regulation
S") to non-US persons (within the meaning of Regulation S).
In addition, the Company has not been, and will not be, registered
under the US Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell
or issue or a solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for WRAP
Retail Offer Shares in the United States, Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, any member state of
the EEA or any other jurisdiction in which such offer or
solicitation is or may be unlawful. No public offer of the
securities referred to herein is being made in any such
jurisdiction.
This announcement is not for publication or
distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States
of America. This announcement is not an offer of securities
for sale into the United States. The securities referred to
herein have not been and will not be registered under the US
Securities Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United
States, except pursuant to an applicable exemption from
registration. No public offering of securities is being made
in the United States.
The distribution of this announcement may be
restricted by law in certain jurisdictions and persons into whose
possession any document or other information referred to herein
comes should inform themselves about and observe any such
restriction. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may
constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.
WRAP is a proprietary technology platform owned and
operated by Winterflood Securities Ltd (registered address at
Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London EC4R 3GA; FRN 141455).
Winterflood Securities Ltd ("Winterflood") is authorised and
regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority,
is acting exclusively for the Company and for no-one else and will
not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this
announcement) as its client in relation to the WRAP Retail Offer
and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for
providing the protections afforded to its clients, nor for
providing advice in connection with the WRAP Retail Offer,
Admission and the other arrangements referred to in this
announcement.
The value of Ordinary Shares and the income from them
is not guaranteed and can fall as well as rise due to stock market
movements. When you sell your investment, you may get back less
than you originally invested. Figures refer to past performance and
past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.
Returns may increase or decrease as a result of currency
fluctuations.
Certain statements in this announcement are
forward-looking statements which are based on the Company's
expectations, intentions and projections regarding its future
performance, anticipated events or trends and other matters that
are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements, which
may use words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "intend",
"estimate", "expect" and words of similar meaning, include all
matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking
statements involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could
cause the actual results of operations, financial condition,
liquidity and dividend policy and the development of the industries
in which the Company's businesses operate to differ materially from
the impression created by the forward-looking statements. These
statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject
to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Given
those risks and uncertainties, prospective investors are cautioned
not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements speak only as at the
date of this announcement and cannot be relied upon as a guide to
future performance. The Company and Winterflood expressly disclaim
any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any
forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect actual
results or any change in the assumptions, conditions or
circumstances on which any such statements are based unless
required to do so by the Financial Conduct Authority, the London
Stock Exchange or applicable law.
The information in this announcement is for background
purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. None of
Winterflood or any of its affiliates, accepts any responsibility or
liability whatsoever for, or makes any representation or warranty,
express or implied, as to this announcement, including the truth,
accuracy or completeness of the information in this announcement
(or whether any information has been omitted from the announcement)
or any other information relating to the Company or associated
companies, whether written, oral or in a visual or electronic form,
and howsoever transmitted or made available or for any loss
howsoever arising from any use of the announcement or its contents
or otherwise arising in connection therewith. Winterflood and its
affiliates, accordingly disclaim all and any liability whether
arising in tort, contract or otherwise which they might otherwise
be found to have in respect of this announcement or its contents or
otherwise arising in connection therewith.
Any indication in this announcement of the price at
which the Ordinary Share have been bought or sold in the past
cannot be relied upon as a guide to future performance. Persons
needing advice should consult an independent financial adviser. No
statement in this announcement is intended to be a profit forecast
and no statement in this announcement should be interpreted to mean
that earnings or target dividend per share of the Company for the
current or future financial years would necessarily match or exceed
the historical published earnings or dividends per share of the
Company.
Neither the content of the Company's website (or any
other website) nor the content of any website accessible from
hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is
incorporated into or forms part of this announcement. The WRAP
Retail Offer Shares to be issued or sold pursuant to the WRAP
Retail Offer will not be admitted to trading on any stock exchange
other than the London Stock Exchange.
It is further noted that the WRAP Retail Offer is only
open to investors in the United Kingdom who fall within Article 43
of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial
Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (which includes an existing
member of the Company).
Strand Hanson Ltd which is authorised and regulated by
the FCA in the United Kingdom, is acting Nominated Adviser to the
Company in connection with the Placing. Strand Hanson Ltd has not
authorised the contents of, or any part of, this announcement, and
no liability whatsoever is accepted by Strand Hanson Ltd for the
accuracy of any information or opinions contained in this
announcement or for the omission of any material information. The
responsibilities of Strand Hanson Ltd as the Company's Nominated
Adviser under the AIM for Companies and the AIM for Nominated
Advisers are owed solely to London Stock Exchange plc and are not
owed to the Company or to any director or shareholder of the
Company or any other person, in respect of its decision to acquire
shares in the capital of the Company in reliance on any part of
this announcement, or otherwise.
Hybridan LLP ("Hybridan") is authorised and regulated
by the FCA in the United Kingdom. Hybridan is acting solely as
broker and bookrunner exclusively for the Company and no one else
in connection with the Placing and the contents of this
Announcement and will not regard any other person (whether or not a
recipient of this Announcement) as its client in relation to the
Placing or the contents of this Announcement nor will it be
responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the
protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in
relation to the contents of this Announcement. Apart from the
responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on
Hybridan by FSMA or the regulatory regime established thereunder,
Hybridan accepts no responsibility whatsoever, and makes no
representation or warranty, express or implied, for the Placing or
the contents of this Announcement including its accuracy,
completeness or verification or for any other statement made or
purported to be made by it, or on behalf of it, the Company or any
other person, in connection with the Company and the contents of
this Announcement, whether as to the past or the future. Hybridan
accordingly disclaims all and any liability whatsoever, whether
arising in tort, contract or otherwise (save as referred to above),
which it might otherwise have in respect of the contents of this
Announcement or any such statement.