RNS Number : 6972F
PureTech Health PLC
06 March 2024
 

6 March 2024

PureTech Health plc

 

PDMR Notifications

 

PureTech Health plc (Nasdaq: PRTC, LSE: PRTC) ("PureTech" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to giving life to new classes of medicine to change the lives of patients with devastating diseases, announces that awards of restricted share units ("RSUs") granted by PureTech on 21 July 2021 to certain directors and other persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") pursuant to its Performance Share Plan ("PSP")  vested on 4 March 2024 following satisfaction of performance conditions measured over the three year period to 31 December 2023.

Each PDMR received vested ordinary shares (after deduction of shares for payroll taxes) on 5 March 2024. The market price per ordinary share in the Company used to calculate the amount payable to the PDMRs and the amount of shares to be issued to PDMRs was 200 pence, being the average closing price of the Company's shares over the three-trading day period immediately preceding the settlement, and the exchange rate used to calculate the cash payment and amount of share settlement was £1: $1.26.

The Company's total issued ordinary share capital is 289,468,159 shares after the share issuance to the PDMRs, 19,259,058 shares of which are held in treasury by the Company.

PDMR Notification

 

The information contained in the below notification is disclosed in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a)

Name

Daphne Zohar

Bharatt Chowrira

Eric Elenko

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Daphne Zohar - Chief Executive Officer

Bharatt Chowrira - President and Chief Business, Financial and Operating Officer

Eric Elenko - Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer

b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

PureTech Health plc

b)

LEI

213800LVPDNO2Z9T9I39

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

Ordinary Shares of PureTech Health plc

ISIN GB00BY2Z0H74


b)

Nature of the transaction

Issuance of ordinary shares in net settlement of certain vested RSUs under the PureTech Health Performance Share Plan, after retentions in respect of payroll taxes.

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Recipient

Price

Amount

Daphne Zohar

0.01 GBP

148,482 ordinary shares

Bharatt Chowrira

0.01 GBP

59,287 ordinary shares

Eric Elenko

0.01 GBP

51,591 ordinary shares

d)

Aggregated information

-

Aggregated volume

-

Price

Price

Aggregate Volume

0.01 GBP

259,360 ordinary shares

e)

Date of the transaction

5 March 2024

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange (XLON)

 

About PureTech Health 

PureTech is a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to giving life to new classes of medicine to change the lives of patients with devastating diseases. The Company has created a broad and deep pipeline through its experienced research and development team and its extensive network of scientists, clinicians and industry leaders that is being advanced both internally and through its Founded Entities. PureTech's R&D engine has resulted in the development of 28 therapeutics and therapeutic candidates, including two (Plenity® and EndeavorRx®) that have received both US FDA clearance and European marketing authorization and a third (KarXT) that has been filed for FDA approval. A number of these programs are being advanced by PureTech or its Founded Entities in various indications and stages of clinical development, including registration enabling studies. All of the underlying programs and platforms that resulted in this pipeline of therapeutic candidates were initially identified or discovered and then advanced by the PureTech team through key validation points.

For more information, visit www.puretechhealth.com or connect with us on X (formerly Twitter) @puretechh.

Contact:

PureTech

Investor Relations

IR@puretechhealth.com

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