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Director's Dealing • Nov 25, 2021
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Allergy Therapeutics PLC
25 November 2021
Allergy Therapeutics plc
("Allergy Therapeutics" or the "Group")
Vesting and Granting of Awards under Long Term Incentive Plan
Allergy Therapeutics (AIM: AGY), the fully integrated pharmaceutical company specialising in allergy vaccines, announces that:
Vesting of Award
Performance conditions attaching to provisional awards ("Awards") made pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") for the three years ended 1 November 2021, details of which were announced on 1 November 2018, have been met in part.
Consequently, on 22 November 2021, Allergy Therapeutics granted certain of its director's options ("Options") over the Company's Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence in replacement for the Awards made under the LTIP as follows:
| Director | Percentage of Award Vested | Total number of Ordinary Shares over which Options granted | Exercise Price |
| Manuel Llobet | 89.3% | 803,700 | 0.1 pence |
| Nick Wykeman | 89.3% | 401,850 | 0.1 pence |
In accordance with the rules of the LTIP, 50% of these Options are exercisable immediately and the remaining 50% are subject to a holding period of three years. The exercise period is ten years from date of grant.
Granting of Award
Pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") the following conditional awards of Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each were made to Executive Directors at a nominal cost of 0.1 pence each on 22 November 2021 ("New Awards").
| Executive Director | Number of Conditional shares awarded (New Awards) |
| Manuel Llobet | 900,000 |
| Nick Wykeman | 450,000 |
The New Awards have been granted in accordance with the LTIP rules and vesting is conditional on the satisfaction of performance conditions in respect of earnings growth and share price growth over three years.
Following the above share transactions, the Executive Directors hold the following:
| Director | Unvested LTIP Awards | Options | Interest in Ordinary Shares |
| Manuel Llobet | 2,700,000 | 1,676,200 | 3,325,000 |
| Nick Wykeman | 1,350,000 | 838,100 | 300,000 |
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Manuel Llobet
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Executive Office and PDMR
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
ALLERGY THERAPEUTICS PLC
b)
LEI
LEIR97215202003301009534776
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 instrument, type of instrument
Conditional award of shares and grant of share options under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan
b)
Identification code
GB00B02LCQ05
c)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of conditional Awards
d)
Price(s) and volume(s)
| Awards | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
| Options New Awards |
0.1 pence 0.1 pence |
803,700 900,000 |
e)
Aggregated information
1,703,700
0.1 pence
f)
Date of the transaction
22 November 2021
g)
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Nick Wykeman
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Financial Officer and PDMR
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
ALLERGY THERAPEUTICS PLC
b)
LEI
LEIR97215202003301009534776
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 instrument, type of instrument
Conditional award of shares and grant of share options under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan
b)
Identification code
GB00B02LCQ05
c)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of conditional awards
d)
Price(s) and volume(s)
| Awards | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
| Options New Awards |
0.1 pence 0.1 pence |
401,850 450,000 |
e)
Aggregated information
851,850
0.1 pence
f)
Date of the transaction
22 November 2021
g)
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR").
For further information, please contact:
Allergy Therapeutics
+44 (0) 1903 845 820
Manuel Llobet, Chief Executive Officer
Nick Wykeman, Chief Financial Officer
Panmure Gordon
+44 (0) 20 7886 2500
Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl, Corporate Finance
Rupert Dearden, Corporate Broking
Consilium Strategic Communications
+44 20 3709 5700
Mary-Jane Elliott / David Daley / Davide Salvi
Stern Investor Relations, Inc.
+1 212 362 1200
Christina Tartaglia
Notes for editors:
About Allergy Therapeutics
Allergy Therapeutics is an international specialty pharmaceutical group focussed on the treatment and diagnosis of allergic disorders, including immunotherapy vaccines, that have the potential to cure disease. The Group sells proprietary and third party products from its subsidiaries in nine major European countries and via distribution agreements in an additional ten countries. Its broad pipeline of products in clinical development include vaccines for grass, tree and house dust mite, and peanut allergy vaccine in pre-clinical development. Adjuvant systems to boost performance of vaccines outside allergy are also in development.
Formed in 1999 out of Smith Kline Beecham, Allergy Therapeutics is headquartered in Worthing, UK with more than 11,000m2 of state-of-the-art MHRA-approved manufacturing facilities and laboratories. The Group, which has achieved double digit compound annual growth since formation, employs c.600 employees and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM:AGY). For more information, please see www.allergytherapeutics.com.
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