Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jun 4, 2015
Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements
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Mechelen, Belgium, June 5 th 2015 – Biocartis Group NV (the "Company" or "Biocartis"), an innovative molecular diagnostics company, announces today in accordance with article 14 of the Belgian Act of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major shareholdings in issuers shares of which are admitted to trading on a regulated market and laying down miscellaneous provisions (the "Belgian Act") that it received shareholder notifications from several shareholders listed below.
Pursuant to the aforementioned notifications, the following shareholders hold the following number of shares and voting rights in the Company:
| Shares and voting rights held | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % before exercise of the Over allotment Option(1) (2) |
% after exercise of the Over allotment Option(1) (3) |
|
| Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc.(4) 6,107,518 |
15.60 | 15.10 | |
| Debiopharm Diagnostics S.A.(5) 4,749,707 |
12.13 | 11.74 | |
| RMM S.A. (6) 3,989,058 |
10.19 | 9.86 | |
| Benaruca S.A. (7) 2,542,408 |
6.50 | 6.29 | |
| BIOSPV Limited (7) 539,834 |
1.38 | 1.33 | |
| Total of Benaruca S.A. and BIOSPV Limited (7) | 3,082,242 | 7.87 | 7.62 |
| PMV-TINA Comm.VA (8) 1,840,861 |
4.70 | 4.55 | |
| Participatie-Maatschappij Vlaanderen NV (8) 428,000 |
1.09 | 1.06 | |
| Total of PMV-TINA Comm.VA and Participatie | |||
| Maatschappij Vlaanderen NV (9) 2,268,861 |
5.80 | 5.61 | |
| Topbio1 LP (9) 1,804,644 |
4.61 | 4.46 | |
| Coöperatieve AESCAP Venture I U.A. (10) 1,440,850 |
3.68 | 3.56 | |
| Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd (11) 1,417,346 |
3.62 | 3.50 | |
| Dham NV (12) 1,283,990 |
3.28 | 3.17 |
Notes:
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(1) The "Over-allotment Option" relates to the option that was granted by the Company to KBC Securities NV, acting on behalf of the underwriters appointed by the Company in connection with its initial public offering (the "Offering"), to cover over-allotments in the Offering. The Over-allotment Option was exercised in full and as a result the Company issued 1,304,347 new shares on 19 May 2015.
(2) Based on 39,144,013 outstanding shares before the exercise of the Over-allotment Option.
(3) Based on 40,448,360 outstanding shares after the exercise of the Over-allotment Option.
Copies of the aforementioned notifications are available on the Company's website.
Pursuant to the Belgian Act and the articles of association of the Company, a notification to the Company and the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) is required by all natural and legal persons in each case where the percentage of voting rights attached to the securities held by such persons in the Company reaches, exceeds or falls below the threshold of 3%, 5%, 10%, and every subsequent multiple of 5%, of the total number of voting rights in the Company.
Rudi Pauwels, CEO/Hilde Windels, CFO +32 15 632 600 [email protected]
Amber Bielecka/Jessica Hodgson/Chris Welsh/Laura Thornton +44 (0) 203 709 5701 (London, UK) [email protected]
Biocartis (Euronext Brussels: BCART) is an innovative molecular diagnostics (MDx) company providing next generation diagnostic solutions aimed at improving clinical practice for the benefit of patients, clinicians, payers and industry. The Company's proprietary MDx Idylla™ platform is a fully automated, real-time PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) system that offers accurate, highly reliable molecular information from virtually any biological sample in virtually any setting. Idylla™ addresses the growing demand for personalized medicine by allowing fast and effective treatment selection and treatment progress monitoring.
Biocartis launched the Idylla™ platform commercially in September 2014 together with its first assay to identify BRAF mutations in metastatic melanoma. Biocartis is developing and marketing a rapidly expanding test menu addressing key unmet clinical needs in oncology and infectious diseases. These areas represent respectively the fastest growing and largest segments of the MDx market worldwide.
Further information can be found at: www.biocartis.com
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