Cambridge Cognition Holdings PlcLSE: COG

Block Admission Application & Exercise of Options

· Issued by Cambridge Cognition Holdings Plc

21 March 2023

Cambridge Cognition Holdings plc

("Cambridge Cognition", the "Company" or the "Group")

Block Admission Application

Exercise of Options and PDMR Dealing

Cambridge Cognition Holdings plc (AIM: COG), which develops and markets digital solutions to assess brain health, announces that an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for a block admission of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Block Admission"). 

The Block Admission relates to Ordinary Shares that will be issued from time to time in accordance with the exercise of options previously granted by the Company. All Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the Block Admission above will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares.

It is expected that the Block Admission will become effective on or around 23 March 2023.

In addition, the Company has issued and allotted 199,701 new Ordinary Shares in the share capital of the Company following the exercise of 222,820 options on 16 March 2023 ("Option Exercise"). Of the options exercised, 90,000 were exercised utilising the net cashless exercise feature, resulting in 23,119 options being surrendered to the Company. The options were exercised pursuant to the Cambridge Cognition Holdings 2013 EMI Share Option Plan. The new Ordinary Shares will be admitted to trading pursuant to the Block Admission.

Included in the exercise of options were options over 119,534 Ordinary Shares held by PDMRs of the Company as detailed in the table below:

Director/ PDMR

Position

Existing interest in Ordinary Shares

Number of Options over Ordinary Shares exercised

Resultant interest in Ordinary Shares

Rollover options remaining after exercise

Ricky Dolphin

Chief Technology Officer

-

119,534

119,534

-

Total voting rights

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Option Exercise, the total number of voting rights of the Company will be 34,815,389. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in Cambridge Cognition under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The Company intends to notify on a monthly basis when there are changes to the issued share capital of the Company, and these monthly figures may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company, under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Cambridge Cognition Holdings Plc  

Matthew Stork, Chief Executive Officer  

Stephen Symonds, Chief Financial Officer  

Tel: 012 2381 0700  

press@camcog.com  

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (NOMAD and Joint Broker)  

Freddy Crossley / Emma Earl   

Rupert Dearden  

Tel: 020 7886 2968  

(Corporate Finance)  

(Corporate Broking)  

Dowgate Capital Limited (Joint Broker)  

David Poutney / James Serjeant  

Tel: 020 3903 7715  

IFC Advisory Ltd (Financial PR and IR)  

Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring / Zach Cohen  

Tel: 020 3934 6630  

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM:

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Ricky Dolphin

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Technology Officer

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Cambridge Cognition Holdings Plc

b)

LEI

213800SZKDIN122EPA96

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 instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 0.01p each

GB00B8DV9647

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of Share Options

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

      Price(s)

Volume(s)

a)  £0.01

b)  £0.70

c)  £0.28

a)  19,721

b)  1,600

c)  98,213

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

119,534

£0.24

e)

Date of the transaction

20 March 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange