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("Midatech" or the "Company")
Statement on Form F-1 Declared Effective
May 2020 UK Warrants Now Exercisable
Midatech Pharma PLC (AIM: MTPH.L;
Nasdaq: MTP), a drug delivery technology company focused on improving the bio-delivery and biodistribution of medicines, announces
that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has declared effective the Company's registration statement
on Form F-1 (the "Registration Statement") relating to the permitted resale of up to 12,695,445 ordinary shares, nominal
value 0.1p each, in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") represented by 2,539,091 American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs")
held by certain stockholders of the Company named in the registration statement that are issuable upon the exercise of previously
issued warrants as follows:
May 2020, warrants were issued to certain UK investors in respect 3,213,957 Ordinary Shares exercisable at 0.34 per share.
These warrants became exercisable upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
Statement, while effective, allows the stockholders named in the Registration Statement to publicly resell the ADSs or Ordinary
Shares. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the ADSs or Ordinary Shares by the stockholders. Upon the cash
exercise of the warrants, the Company will receive the exercise price of the warrants.
Statement may be accessed through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. A copy of the prospectus
relating to the offering may also be accessed through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sales of these securities,
in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification
under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
For more information,
| Midatech Pharma PLC |
| Stephen Stamp, CEO, CFO |
| Tel: +44 (0)1235 888300 |
| www.midatechpharma.com |
| Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) |
| Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl (Corporate Finance) |
| James Stearns (Corporate Broking) |
| Tel: +44 (0)20 7886 2500 |
| Turner Pope Investments (TPI) Limited (Joint Broker) |
| Andrew Thacker (Corporate Broking) Tel: +44(0)20 3657 0050 |
| IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR and UK Investor Relations) |
| Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring |
| Tel: +44 (0)20 3934 6630 |
| Email: midatech@investor-focus.co.uk |
| Edison Group (US Investor Relations) Megan Paul Tel: (646) 653 7034 Email: mpaul@edisongroup.com |
Midatech Pharma PLC (dual listed on LSE
AIM: MTPH; and NASDAQ: MTP) is an R&D company focused on Making Medicines Better' by improving delivery of drugs
in the body. The Company combines existing medications with its proprietary and innovative drug delivery technologies to provide
compelling oncology and rare disease products that have the potential to powerfully impact the lives of patients undergoing treatment
for life threatening diseases.
The Company has developed three in-house
technology platforms, each with its own unique mechanism to improve delivery of medications to sites of disease. All of the Company's
technologies have successfully entered human use in the clinic, providing important validation of the potential for each platform:
By improving bio-delivery and biodistribution
of approved existing molecules, Midatech's unique R&D has the potential to make medicines better, lower technical risks,
accelerate regulatory approval and route to market, and provide newly patentable products. The platform nature of the technologies
allows the potential to develop multiple drug assets rather than being reliant on a limited number of programmes.
Midatech's technologies are supported
by 36 patent families including 120 granted patents and an additional 70 patent applications.
Midatech's headquarters and R&D
facility is in Cardiff, UK. For more information please visit www.midatechpharma.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release
may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of legislation in the United Kingdom and/or United States
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical
fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, any payments that may be received as a result
of the exercise of the warrants.
Reference should be made to those documents
that Midatech shall file from time to time or announcements that may be made by Midatech in accordance with the London Stock Exchange
AIM Rules for Companies ("AIM Rules"), the Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTRs") and the rules and regulations
promulgated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which contains and identifies other important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those contained in any projections or forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date of this announcement. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements by or concerning
Midatech are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. Except as may be required under the AIM
Rules or the DTRs or by relevant law in the United Kingdom or the United States, Midatech does not undertake any obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or otherwise arising.