Zealand announces an amendment to its Articles of Association to reflect grant of warrants


Copenhagen, 2015-03-25 14:05 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 25 March 2015  ─ Zealand Pharma (“Zealand”) (Nasdaq Copenhagen: ZEAL) announces an amendment to its Articles of Association to reflect grant of warrants to Torsten Hoffmann, former Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, as announced in Company Announcement no. 11/2015 on 25 March 2015.

The amendment of Zealand’s Articles of Association entailed by the grant of warrants 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.                            

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For further information, please contact:

Britt Meelby Jensen, President and Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +45 51 67 61 28, email: bmj@zealandpharma.com

Hanne Leth Hillman, Senior Vice President for Communications and Investor Relations

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

 

About Zealand Pharma

Zealand Pharma A/S (“Zealand”) (Nasdaq Copenhagen: ZEAL) is a biotechnology company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Zealand has leading expertise in the discovery, design and development of novel peptide medicines and possesses in-house competences in clinical trial design and management with a therapeutic focus on metabolic diseases and acute care indications. The company is advancing a pipeline of novel wholly-owned medicines alongside a partnered product and development portfolio.

Zealand’s first invented medicine, lixisenatide, a once-daily prandial GLP-1 agonist for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, is marketed globally (ex-US) as Lyxumia® and in Phase III development as a single-injection combination with Lantus® (LixiLan), both under a global license agreement with Sanofi. US regulatory submission of Lyxumia® is planned for Q3 2015 and US/EU regulatory submissions for LixiLan in Q4 2015.

Zealand’s wholly-owned products include danegaptide (prevention of Ischemic Reperfusion Injury) in Phase II and the stable glucagon product, ZP4207 (treatment of severe hypoglycemia) in Phase I as well as several preclinical peptide therapeutics. Partnering represents an important component of strategy to leverage in-house expertise, share development risk in large clinical trials, provide funding and commercialize the company’s products. Zealand currently has global license agreements and partnerships with Sanofi, Helsinn Healthcare, Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly.

For further information: www.zealandpharma.com     Follow us on Twitter @ZealandPharma


Attachments

Exhibit 8 1 E to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 B to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 F to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 A to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 G to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 D to AoA.pdf Exhibit 8 1 C to AoA.pdf Zealand Pharma_AoA_Articles of Association.pdf Exhibit 8 1 to AoA.pdf