Fees in Shares and Total Voting Rights Released: 04/08/2010 04 August 2010, London, UK, and Cambridge, MA: Cancer drug developer Antisoma plc (LSE: ASM; USOTC: ATSMY) today announces that three Non-Executive Directors of Antisoma have taken all or part of their fees for the month ended 31 July 2010 in ordinary shares pursuant to resolutions of the Board of Directors dated 14 September 2004 and subsequently.
The new ordinary shares were issued at a price of 5.3 pence per share, this being the mid-market closing price on the last trading day of the month (30 July 2010). The relevant Directors have agreed not to dispose of the shares allotted for a minimum period of one year.
The allotment and total holdings following this allotment are shown below.
+-----------------------+---------+-------------+- |Director |Allotted |Total holding|Percentage of issued ordinary | | |02 Aug 10| |shares | | | | | | +-----------------------+---------+-------------+- |Barry Price |35,377 |1,018,173 |0.16% | +-----------------------+---------+-------------+- |Birgit Stattin-Norinder|14,544 |90,124 |0.01% | +-----------------------+---------+-------------+- |Michael Lewis |55,031 |503,012 |0.08% | +-----------------------+---------+-------------+-
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange and the UK Listing Authority for the admission of the new ordinary shares of 1p each. The total number of ordinary shares in the Company in issue and admitted to the Official List following the above allotments will be 630,073,950.
The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares.
Enquiries: Alison Saville, Senior Marketing and Communications Executive Antisoma plc +44 (0)20 3249 2100
Background on Antisoma
Antisoma is a London Stock Exchange-listed biopharmaceutical company that develops novel products for the treatment of cancer. The Company has operations in the UK and the US. Please visit www.antisoma.com for further information about Antisoma.
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