Press release Biocartis Group NV: Biocartis Creates New Share Option Plan and Cancels Outstanding Pool under Existing Share Option Plans
PRESS RELEASE – REGULATED INFORMATION
24 February 2023, 07:00 CET
Biocartis Creates New Share Option Plan and Cancels Outstanding Pool under Existing Share Option Plans
Mechelen, Belgium, 24 February 2023 – Biocartis Group NV (the ‘Company’ or ‘Biocartis’), an innovative molecular diagnostics company (Euronext Brussels: BCART), today announces that its board of directors created, within the framework of the authorized capital, 8.3 million share options (each share option having the form of a subscription right) under a new share option plan, called the ‘Share Option Plan 2023’, in order to enable the Company to offer the share options to current and future personnel members and members of the executive management of the Company and/or its subsidiaries.
The purpose of the Share Option Plan 2023 is to create a plan of subscription rights for shares of the Company which will allow the Company to attract, encourage, motivate and retain personnel and executives, and to align their interests with the interests of the Company and its shareholders by giving them the opportunity to share in the potential increase in the value of the Company. At the same time, the Company will cancel 435.270 share options which have not yet been offered to, and accepted by, the beneficiaries under the existing share option plans of the Company.
The share options under the Share Option Plan 2023 have a term of ten years (unless contractually reduced in the offer to a beneficiary), are generally not transferable and can in principle not be exercised prior to the first day of the fourth calendar year following the calendar year in which the offer of share options is made to a beneficiary. The share options of the members of the executive management will vest on the third anniversary of the date of offer, while the share options of the personnel members will in principle vest gradually over a period over approximately four years unless decided otherwise. Each share option gives the right to subscribe to one new ordinary Biocartis share. Should the share options be exercised, Biocartis will apply for the admission to trading of the resulting new shares on Euronext Brussels. The share option as such will not be listed on any stock market.
The reports prepared by the board of directors and the Company’s statutory auditor (in accordance with Article 7:198 juncto Articles 7:180 and 7:191 of the Belgian Companies and Associations Code) in the framework of the creation of the Share Option Plan 2023 can be consulted on the website of the Company.
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About Biocartis
With its revolutionary and proprietary Idylla™ platform, Biocartis (Euronext Brussels: BCART) aspires to enable personalized medicine for patients around the world through universal access to molecular testing, by making molecular testing actionable, convenient, fast and suitable for any lab. The Idylla™ platform is a fully automated sample-to-result, real-time PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) based system designed to offer in-house access to accurate molecular information in a minimum amount of time for faster, informed treatment decisions. Idylla™’s continuously expanding menu of molecular diagnostic tests address key unmet clinical needs, with a focus in oncology. This is the fastest growing segment of the molecular diagnostics market worldwide. Today, Biocartis offers tests supporting melanoma, colorectal, lung and liver cancer, as well as for COVID-19, Flu, RSV and sepsis. For more information, visit www.biocartis.com or follow Biocartis on Twitter @Biocartis_ , Facebook or LinkedIn.
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