Zealand increases its share capital after exercise of employee warrants

Copenhagen, 2015-09-08 11:23 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 8 September 2015 – Zealand announces that its share capital has been increased by nominal DKK 383,190 divided into 383,190 new shares with a nominal value of DKK 1 each. The increase is a consequence of the exercise of employee warrants granted under three of the company's warrant programs as described in the Articles of Association.

The exercise price is DKK 94.60 per share for 308,582 of the new shares and DKK 77.00 per share for 74,608 of the new shares. The total proceeds to Zealand from the capital increase amounts to DKK 34,936,673.20.

Each new share carries one vote at Zealand’s general meetings. The new shares give rights to dividend and other rights from the time of the warrant holder's exercise notice. Zealand only has one class of shares.

The new shares will be listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen following registration of the capital increase with the Danish Business Authority. Following registration of the new shares, the share capital of Zealand will be nominal DKK 23,901,298 divided into 23,901,298 shares with a nominal value of DKK 1 each.

The amendment of Zealand’s Articles of Association entailed by the share capital increase has today been registered with the Danish Business Authority. The new Articles of Association are attached to this announcement and are also available on the company’s website: www.zealandpharma.com.                            

The content of this announcement has no impact on the company’s financial guidance for 2015.

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For further information, please contact:

Hanne Leth Hillman, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications

Tel: +45 50 60 36 89, email: hlh@zealandpharma.com

About Zealand Pharma

Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq Copenhagen: ZEAL) (“Zealand”) is a biotechnology company with leading expertise in the identification, design and development of novel peptide medicines. Zealand has a proprietary pipeline of novel medicines and a portfolio of products and projects under license collaborations with Sanofi, Helsinn Healthcare and Boehringer Ingelheim – primarily in the fields of cardio-metabolic diseases and acute care indications.

The proprietary pipeline includes danegaptide for Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in Phase II development and the stable glucagon analogue, ZP4207 in two clinical development programs; as a ready-to-use rescue pen for severe hypoglycemia in preparation for Phase II and as a multiple-dose version for mild to moderate hypoglycemia in Phase I, as well as several preclinical peptide therapeutics.

Zealand has invented lixisenatide, a once-daily prandial GLP-1 agonist, which is marketed globally (ex-US) by Sanofi for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. Sanofi submitted lixisenatide for regulatory approval in the US in late July 2015, and has a combination of lixisenatide with insulin glargine (Lantus^®) in Phase III development with regulatory submissions expected in Q4 2015 in the US and in Q1 2016 in Europe.

The company is based in Copenhagen (Glostrup), Denmark. For further information about our business and activities, please visit: www.zealandpharma.com or follow us on Twitter @ZealandPharma

Vedhæftede filer:

38-15_0908 - Warrant exercise - ENG_Final.pdf

Zealand Pharma AoA incl. Exhibits.pdf