Defenx : Notification of Interest re Exit Opportunity

RNS Number : 1263Y Defenx plc

27 December 2019

27 December 2019

Defenx PLC

("Defenx", the "Company" or the "Group")

Notification of Interest re Exit Opportunity

Defenx PLC (AIM: DFX), the cyber-security software group, announces that, further to BV Tech's announcement on 4 December 2019 of the Exit Opportunity to Minority Shareholders, the Company has been notified by BV Tech that it acquired a further 190,144 Ordinary Shares on 24 December 2019 at 3 pence per share, being the purchase price pursuant to the Exit Opportunity.

Following the purchase of such Ordinary Shares, BV Tech is now interested in 30,703,839 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 79.32 per cent. of the existing issued Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company.

Following the approval of the Resolutions at the Company's General Meeting on 20 December 2019, the last day of dealings in Defenx's Ordinary Shares will be 6 January 2020, and at 7.00 a.m. on 7 January 2020, the admission to trading on AIM of Defenx's Ordinary Shares will be cancelled.

The Company notes that the Exit Opportunity, as announced by BV Tech on 4 December 2019, will remain open until 1:00 p.m. (London time) on 6 January 2020.

Further details of the Cancellation are set out in the Circular posted to shareholders and available on the Company's website at https://investors.defenx.com.

Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meaning as those used in the Company's announcement of 4 December 2019.

Enquiries
Defenx PLC	020 3198 9414
Anthony Reeves - Interim Executive Chairman
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated and Financial	020 7409 3494
Adviser to the Company)
Richard Tulloch / Stuart Faulkner / James Bellman
WH Ireland (Broker to the Company)	020 7220 1666
Adrian Hadden / James Sinclair-Ford
Melvyn Brown (Sales & Trading)
IFC Advisory (Financial PR and IR)	020 3934 6630
Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring / Florence Chandler

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.

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