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Allergy Therapeutics PLC

25 November 2021

Allergy Therapeutics plc

("Allergy Therapeutics" or the "Group")

Vesting and Granting of Awards under Long Term Incentive Plan

Allergy Therapeutics (AIM: AGY), the fully integrated pharmaceutical company specialising in allergy vaccines, announces that :

Vesting of Award

Performance conditions attaching to provisional awards ("Awards") made pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") for the three years ended 1 November 2021, details of which were announced on 1 November 2018, have been met in part.

Consequently, on 22 November 2021, Allergy Therapeutics granted certain of its director's options ("Options") over the Company's Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence in replacement for the Awards made under the LTIP as follows:

 
  Director          Percentage of    Total number of    Exercise Price 
                     Award Vested    Ordinary Shares 
                                    over which Options 
                                         granted 
 M anuel L lobet       89.3%             803,700          0.1 pence 
                   --------------  -------------------  -------------- 
 Nick Wykeman          89.3%             401,850          0.1 pence 
                   --------------  -------------------  -------------- 
 

In accordance with the rules of the LTIP, 50% of these Options are exercisable immediately and the remaining 50% are subject to a holding period of three years. The exercise period is ten years from date of grant.

Granting of Award

Pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") t he following conditional awards of Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each were made to Executive Directors at a nominal cost of 0.1 pence each on 22 November 2021 ("New Awards").

 
 Executive Director    Number of Conditional shares 
                        awarded (New Awards) 
 Manuel Llobet                   900,000 
                      ----------------------------- 
 Nick Wykeman                    450,000 
                      ----------------------------- 
 

The New Awards have been granted in accordance with the LTIP rules and vesting is conditional on the satisfaction of performance conditions in respect of earnings growth and share price growth over three years.

Following the above share transactions, the Executive Directors hold the following:

 
 Director         Unvested LTIP   Options     Interest in Ordinary 
                   Awards                            Shares 
 Manuel Llobet    2,700,000       1,676,200   3,325,000 
                 --------------  ----------  --------------------- 
 Nick Wykeman     1,350,000       838,100     300,000 
                 --------------  ----------  --------------------- 
 

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                   Manuel Llobet 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Position/status        Chief Executive Office and PDMR 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification   Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Name                   ALLERGY THERAPEUTICS PLC 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                    LEIR97215202003301009534776 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 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            Conditional award of shares and grant of share 
       of the financial       options under the Company's Long Term Incentive 
       instrument,            Plan 
       type of instrument 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Identification         GB00B02LCQ05 
       code 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Nature of the          Grant of conditional Awards 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Price(s) and           Awards         Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       volume(s)              Options        0.1 pence     803,700 
                               New Awards     0.1 pence     900,000 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Aggregated 
       information 
                                     1,703,700 
                                     0.1 pence 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Date of the            22 November 2021 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 g)   Place of the           Outside a trading venue 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 
 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                   Nick Wykeman 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Position/status        Chief Financial Officer and PDMR 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification   Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Name                   ALLERGY THERAPEUTICS PLC 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                    LEIR97215202003301009534776 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 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            Conditional award of shares and grant of share 
       of the financial       options under the Company's Long Term Incentive 
       instrument,            Plan 
       type of instrument 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Identification         GB00B02LCQ05 
       code 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Nature of the          Grant of conditional awards 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Price(s) and           Awards         Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       volume(s)              Options        0.1 pence     401,850 
                               New Awards     0.1 pence     450,000 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Aggregated 
       information 
                                851,850 
                                0.1 pence 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Date of the            22 November 2021 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 g)   Place of the           Outside a trading venue 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR").

For further information, please contact:

Allergy Therapeutics

+44 (0) 1903 845 820

Manuel Llobet, Chief Executive Officer

Nick Wykeman, Chief Financial Officer

Panmure Gordon

+44 (0) 20 7886 2500

Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl, Corporate Finance

Rupert Dearden, Corporate Broking

Consilium Strategic Communications

+44 20 3709 5700

Mary-Jane Elliott / David Daley / Davide Salvi

allergytherapeutics@consilium-comms.com

Stern Investor Relations, Inc.

+1 212 362 1200

Christina Tartaglia

christina@sternir.com

Notes for editors:

About Allergy Therapeutics

Allergy Therapeutics is an international specialty pharmaceutical group focussed on the treatment and diagnosis of allergic disorders, including immunotherapy vaccines, that have the potential to cure disease. The Group sells proprietary and third party products from its subsidiaries in nine major European countries and via distribution agreements in an additional ten countries. Its broad pipeline of products in clinical development include vaccines for grass, tree and house dust mite, and peanut allergy vaccine in pre-clinical development. Adjuvant systems to boost performance of vaccines outside allergy are also in development.

Formed in 1999 out of Smith Kline Beecham, Allergy Therapeutics is headquartered in Worthing, UK with more than 11,000m(2) of state-of-the-art MHRA-approved manufacturing facilities and laboratories. The Group, which has achieved double digit compound annual growth since formation, employs c.600 employees and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM:AGY). For more information, please see www.allergytherapeutics.com .

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