Acacia Pharma Group plc
Annual General Meeting Results and Statement
Cambridge, UK and Indianapolis, US – 3 June 2019: Acacia Pharma Group plc (“Acacia Pharma”, the “Company”) (EURONEXT: ACPH) announces that all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 7 May 2019 were duly passed by the required majority at the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today.
The results of the votes on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website at www.acaciapharma.com in the Investors/Shareholder Meetings section.
| Resolution | Votes for | % | Votes Against | % | Votes total | Votes withheld |
| To receive the consolidated financial statements and the reports of the Directors and the auditor for the year ended 31 December 2018 | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Patrick Vink as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Julian Gilbert as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Christine Soden as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Edward Borkowski as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect John Brown as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Scott Byrd as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Pieter van der Meer as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-elect Johan Kördel as a Director of the Company | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company. | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
| To authorise the Directors of the Company to agree the remuneration of the Company’s auditor. | 12,400,601 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 12,400,601 | 0 |
As at the close of business on 30 May 2019 (being the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members) there were 53,329,205 shares of 2p each in issue.
In a statement to shareholders attending the AGM, Dr Julian Gilbert, CEO, confirmed that following receipt of a Complete Response Letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 2 May 2019 regarding its New Drug Application (NDA) for BARHEMSYS® (amisulpride injection), identifying continuing deficiencies at the contract manufacturer of amisulpride, the active pharmaceutical ingredient used in BARHEMSYS, the Company has been working with the FDA, regulatory advisors, the current manufacturer and an alternative manufacturer to establish the most expeditious route to approval for BARHEMSYS. A Type A meeting has been scheduled with the FDA in mid-June. The formal minutes of this meeting should be issued 30 days after the meeting at which point the Company expects to be able to provide more clarity on when the BARHEMSYS NDA might be resubmitted.
Dr Gilbert further confirmed that steps had already been taken to reduce costs in all areas without restricting options around the timing and the nature of the launch of BARHEMSYS. As at 31 May 2019 cash reserves were $23.9 million. Upon receipt of the FDA type A meeting minutes the Board will assess what steps should be taken to ensure the Company can fund activities through to the NDA approval.
Contacts
Acacia Pharma Group plc
Julian Gilbert, CEO
Christine Soden, CFO
+44 1223 919760
IR@acaciapharma.com
Citigate Dewe Rogerson (Financial PR)
Mark Swallow, Shabnam Bashir, David Dible
+44 20 7638 9571
acaciapharma@citigatedewerogerson.com
About Acacia Pharma
Acacia Pharma is a hospital pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of new nausea & vomiting treatments for surgical and cancer patients. The Company has identified important and commercially attractive unmet needs in nausea & vomiting and has discovered two product candidates based on the same active ingredient, amisulpride, to meet those needs.
The Company’s lead project, BARHEMSYS® for post-operative nausea & vomiting (PONV), has generated positive results in four Phase 3 clinical studies. Its sister project, APD403 for chemotherapy induced nausea & vomiting (CINV), has successfully completed one proof-of-concept and one Phase 2 dose-ranging study in patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy.
Acacia Pharma is based in Cambridge, UK and its US operations are centred in Indianapolis, IN. The Company is listed on the Euronext Brussels exchange under the under ISIN code GB00BYWF9Y76 and ticker symbol ACPH. www.acaciapharma.com
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