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Avacta Group PLC

05 January 2017

05 January 2017

Avacta Group plc

("Avacta" or "the Group" or "the Company")

Director Dealing and Issue of Equity

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer(R) biotherapeutics and research reagents, announces that application has been made for 4,340 new ordinary shares of 10p each (the "New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM on 11 January 2017 ("Admission").

The New Ordinary Shares have been allotted pursuant to the purchase by Michael Albin, Non-Executive Director of the Company, of New Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms set out in the Company's announcement of 23 February 2016.

Following Admission, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in issue will be 68,386,857. Shareholders may use this figure as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

 
     Avacta Group plc                              Tel: +44 (0) 844 
      Alastair Smith, Chief Executive               414 0452 
      Officer                                       www.avacta.com 
      Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial 
      Officer 
     finnCap Ltd                                   Tel: +44 (0) 207 
      Geoff Nash / Giles Rolls - Nominated          220 0500 
      Adviser                                       www.finncap.com 
      Tim Redfern / Alice Lane - Corporate 
      Broking 
                                                    Tel: +44 (0) 203 
      WG Partners                                   705 9318 
      David Wilson                                  Tel: +44 (0) 203 
      Nigel Barnes                                  705 9217 
      Claes Spang                                   www.wgpartners.co.uk 
     Media Enquiries                               Tel: +44 (0) 203 
      FTI Consulting                                727 1000 
      Simon Conway / Natalie Garland-Collins        avacta@fticonsulting.com 
 

Notes to Editors

Avacta Group plc (www.avacta.com)

Avacta's principal focus is on its proprietary Affimer(R) technology which is a novel engineered alternative to antibodies that has wide application in Life Sciences for diagnostics, therapeutics and general research and development.

Antibodies dominate markets worth in excess of $50bn despite their shortcomings. Affimer technology has been designed to address many of these negative performance issues, principally; the time taken to generate new antibodies, the reliance on an animal's immune response, poor specificity in many cases, and batch to batch variability. Affimer technology is based on a small protein that can be quickly generated to bind with high specificity and affinity to a wide range of protein targets.

Avacta has a pre-clinical biotech development programme with an in-house focus on immuno-oncology and bleeding disorders as well as partnered development programmes. Avacta is commercialising non-therapeutic Affimer reagents through licensing to developers of life sciences research tools and diagnostics.

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                          Michael Albin 
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     2.       Reason for the Notification 
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     a)       Position/status               Non - Executive Director 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     b)       Initial                            Initial notification 
              notification/Amendment 
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 3.           Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
               market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
               or auction monitor 
-------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     a)       Name                          Avacta Group Plc 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     b)       LEI                           2138009U3EG31OPMGH36 
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 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                         Ordinary shares 
               of the Financial                     of 10p 
               instrument, 
               type of instrument 
------- 
              Identification                GB00BYYW9G87 
               code 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     b)       Nature of the                       As set out in the Company's announcement of 23 February 2016, on 22 February 2016 
               transaction                         Mr Albin 
                                                   entered into a binding commitment to purchase GBP3,125 of new Avacta shares per 
                                                   quarter and 
                                                   the New Ordinary Shares represent his investment for the period of 1 October 2016 
                                                   to 31 December 
                                                   2016. 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     c)       Price(s) and                       Price(s)          Volume(s) 
               volume(s)                     ----------------  -------------- 
                                                  72.0 pence        4,340 
                                             ----------------  -------------- 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     d)       Aggregated information: 
               *    Aggregated volume         See above 
 
 
               *    Price 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     e)       Date of the                   5 January 2017 
               transaction 
-------  ----------------------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
     f)       Place of the                  London Stock Exchange, AIM Market 
               transaction                   (XLON) 
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