Delisting Announcement • Jun 24, 2020
Delisting Announcement
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PRESS RELEASE
Chassieu (France), June 24, 2020 - AMOEBA (FR0011051598 - AMEBA), producer of a biological biocide capable of eliminating the risk in water and human wounds, and of a biocontrol product for plant protection, still in the testing phase, announces that the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting held on June 24, 2020 approved the proposed transfer of the listing of its shares from the Euronext Paris regulated market (compartment C) to the Euronext Growth Paris multilateral trading facility, and grants full powers to the Board of Directors to implement this transfer of listing.
The Board of Directors, which met on 24 June 2020 following the Annual General Meeting, decided to implement this transfer. Amoéba's shares will be listed on Euronext Growth Paris within a minimum period of two months.
This project aims to enable Amoéba to be listed on a more suited market to its size and market capitalization. The transfer to Euronext Growth Paris should also simplify the Company's operations and reduce the costs related to its listing, while enabling it to continue to benefit from the financial markets appeal.
The transfer project was approved by the General Assembly of Amoéba
Subject to the approval of Euronext Paris SA, the company'slisting on Euronext growth Paris will be carried out under an accelerated procedure for the admission to trading of the Company's existing shares, without the issue of new shares.
In compliance with current regulations, Amoéba informs its shareholders of the possible consequences of such a transfer:
• the protection of minority shareholders, in the event of a change of control, will be ensured on Euronext Growth Paris by a mandatory public offer mechanism in the event that the threshold of 50% of the capital or voting rights is crossed, directly or indirectly, alone or in concert;
The Company will publish, within four months of the closing date, an annual report including its annual (and consolidated) financial statements, a management report and the Statutory Auditors reports. The Company will choose, with a view of transparency for its investors and shareholders, to maintain the IFRS standards application. It will also prepare a report on corporate governance (lighter content). Within four months of the end of the first half of the year, it will publish a half-yearly report including its interim financial statements and a management report relating to these financial statements.
Amoéba will continue to provide accurate, precise and truthful information, making public any insider information concerning the Company, in accordance with the European Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) which also applies to companies listed on Euronext Growth Paris.
Regulated information (and in particular insider information) must always be effectively and in full released. The Company will continue to use a professional wire.
The ISIN code of the Amoéba share will remain unchanged: FR0011051598. The mnemonic code AMEBA will become ALMIB as from the admission of the shares on Euronext Growth Paris.
As part of its transfer to Euronext Growth Paris, Amoéba is accompanied by Portzamparc BNP Paribas as Listing Sponsor.
1 This threshold of 95% could soon change or be completed
As this is an unregulated market, the transfer to Euronext Growth Paris could result in a change in the liquidity of the share that differs from the liquidity observed since the start of the Company's listing on the Euronext Paris regulated market. Such transfer could also lead some investors, preferring securities of issuers listed on a regulated market, to sell their Amoéba's shares.
Publication of a press release on the operation project
o Shareholders' Meeting authorizing the transfer of shares on Euronext Growth Paris;
o Board of Directors deciding on the transfer;
o Request to delist the shares from Euronext Paris and request for their admission to Euronext Growth.
o Information relating to the final transfer decision (second press release)
o Notification by Euronext of its decision to admit the shares to Euronext Growth Paris (release of an admission notice by Euronext)
o Publication of a press release by the Company announcing the transfer to Euronext growth Paris and posting of the information document on line.
Listing of Amoéba's ordinary shares on Euronext Growth Paris
Amoéba's ambition is to become a major player in the treatment of bacterial risk in the fields of water, healthcare and plant protection. Our biological solution is an alternative to chemical products widely used today. Amoéba is currently focusing on the market of industrial cooling towers estimated at €1.7Bn (1) on a global chemical biocide market for water treatment, evaluated at €21Bn (2) and on the biocontrol market for plant protection estimated globally at €1.6Bn (4) . In the future, the Company is looking at developing new applications such as chronic wound care, estimated at € 751 million (3) in the USA. Sales of associated products with healthcare, biocides and crop protection are subject to the Company being granted local regulatory market authorizations. The Company is currently in a trial phase for biocidal and plant protection applications and does not market any products.
Created in 2010, based in Chassieu (Lyon, France) with a subsidiary in Canada and in the United States, Amoéba is quoted on the compartment C of Euronext Paris. The Company is a member of the BPIfrance Excellence network and is eligible for the PEA-PME SME equity savings plan setup. More information on www.amoeba-biocide.com.
(1): Amoéba data combined from sources: DRIRE 2013, Eurostat, ARHIA 2013
(2): Sources combined by Amoéba from water treaters, Freedonia, Eurostat et MarketsandMarkets
(3): BCC Research, "Markets for Advanced Wound Management Technologies," Wellesley, MA, 2017
(4): Biopesticides Worldwide Market 2013, CPL, Wallingford, UK
Amoéba Valérie FILIATRE General Manager +33 (0)4 26 69 16 00 [email protected] Investors and Media Relations Grégory BOSSON / Mathieu CALLEUX Agence Calyptus +33(0)1 53 65 37 90 [email protected]
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements concerning AMOEBA which are based on its own assumptions and hypothesis and on information that are available to us. However, AMOEBA gives no assurance that the estimates contained in such forward-looking statements will be verified, which estimates are subject to numerous risks including the risks set forth in the Universal Registration Document of AMOEBA filed with the French Financial Markets Authority (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) on April 30, 2020 under number D20-0416 (a copy of which is available on www.amoeba-biocide.com). The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to risks not yet known to AMOEBA or not currently considered material by AMOEBA. The occurrence of all or part of such risks could cause actual results, financial conditions, performance or achievements of AMOEBA to be materially different from such forward-looking statements.
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