Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd

("Faron" or the "Company")

Grant of Options
 

Company announcement, January 28, 2022 at 09:00 AM (EET) / 07:00 AM (GMT) / 02:00 AM (EDT)

TURKU, FINLAND / BOSTON, MA - Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd (AIM: FARN, First North: FARON), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on building the future of immunotherapy by harnessing the power of the immune system to tackle cancer and inflammation, announces that the Board of Faron has granted 100,000 options over ordinary shares in the Company ("Options") under the Faron 2019 Option Plan to Dr. Marie-Louise Fjällskog, who was appointed as Faron's new Chief Medical Officer on January 3, 2022. The Options have been allocated under the U.S. Sub-Plan of Faron's 2019 Option Plan and are exercisable between 17 November 2022 and 17 November 2026 at an exercise price of €4.04 per share, vesting 25% per annum over a period of four years. The exercise price is calculated based on the average share price per share at which the Company's ordinary shares have been traded on AIM over a period of 30 days immediately preceding the grant date. The terms of the 2019 Option Plan are available on the Company's website.

The granted 100,000 Options entitle the option holder to subscribe for a total of 100,000 new ordinary shares in the Company, if exercised in full, and represent 0.19% of the fully-diluted ordinary share capital of the Company.

For more information please contact:

Media Contact

Faron Pharmaceuticals

Eric Van Zanten

Head of Communications

eric.vanzanten@faron.com

Investor.relations@faron.com

Phone: +1 (610) 529-6219

Investor Contact

Stern Investor Relations

Julie Seidel

julie.seidel@sternir.com

Phone: +1 (212) 362-1200

Cairn Financial Advisers LLP, Nomad

Sandy Jamieson, Jo Turner

Phone: +44 (0) 207 213 0880

Peel Hunt LLP, Broker

Christopher Golden, James Steel

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7418 8900

Sisu Partners Oy, Certified Adviser on Nasdaq First North

Juha Karttunen

Phone: +358 (0)40 555 4727

Jukka Järvelä

Phone: +358 (0)50 553 8990

Consilium Strategic Communications

Mary-Jane Elliott, David Daley, Lindsey Neville

faron@consilium-comms.com

Phone: +44 (0)20 3709 5700

About Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Faron (AIM: FARN, First North: FARON) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for medical conditions with significant unmet needs caused by dysfunction of our immune system. The Company currently has a pipeline based on the receptors involved in regulation of immune response in oncology, organ damage and bone marrow regeneration. Bexmarilimab, a novel anti-Clever-1 humanized antibody, is its investigative precision immunotherapy with the potential to provide permanent immune stimulation for difficult-to-treat cancers through targeting myeloid function. Currently in Phase I/II clinical development as a potential therapy for patients with untreatable solid tumors, bexmarilimab has potential as a single-agent therapy or in combination with other standard treatments including immune checkpoint molecules. Traumakine is an investigational intravenous (IV) interferon beta-1a therapy for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and other ischemic or hyperinflammatory conditions. Traumakine is currently being evaluated in global trials as a potential treatment for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and with the 59th Medical Wing of the US Air Force and the US Department of Defense for the prevention of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) after ischemia-reperfusion injury caused by a major trauma.  Faron is based in Turku, Finland. Further information is available at www.faron.com.

Notification
of a
Transaction
pursuant to
Article
19(1) of
Regulation
(EU) No.
596/2014
1 Details of the person
discharging managerial
responsibilities/person
closely associated
a. Name Marie-Louise
Fjällskog
2 Reason for notification
a. Position/Status Person discharging
managerial
responsibilities
b. Initial Initial Notification
notification/Amendment
3 Details of the issuer,
emission allowance market
participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or
auction monitor
a. Name Faron
Pharmaceuticals Oy
b. LEI 7437009H31TO1DC0EB42
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 Options over
instrument, type of ordinary shares
instrument ISIN: FI4000153309
Identification Code  
b. Nature of the transaction Grant of options
made pursuant to the
Faron 2019 Option
Plan exercisable at
EUR 4,04 per
Ordinary Share
c. Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
Nil
 100,000

d. Aggregated information- 100,000Nil
Aggregated Volume- Price
e. Date of the transaction January 27, 2022
f. Place of the transaction Turku