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30 March 2022, 6:00 p.m. (Brussels time)
Cambridge, UK and Indianapolis, US – Acacia Pharma Group plc (“Acacia Pharma” or the “Company”) (EURONEXT: ACPH), announces that it will not publish its results for the full year to end December 2021 on 31 March 2022 as originally scheduled.
This comes as a result of the changes in regulatory requirements following Brexit. The Company is required under Belgian law to have its accounts audited by either an EU audit firm or a third country audit firm registered in Belgium. Following Brexit, the Company’s statutory auditor PwC UK ceased to be an EU audit firm on 30 June 2021.
The Company has been informed that there is currently no legal mechanism for PwC UK to register as a third country audit firm in Belgium; the Company is therefore required to also have its accounts audited by PwC Belgium. A new date for the publication of its results will be set and these will be released before the end of April 2022 as required under the applicable rules.
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| Acacia Pharma Group plc Mike Bolinder, CEO +44 1223 919760 / +1 317 505 1280 IR@acaciapharma.com | International Media Frazer Hall, Mark Swallow, David Dible MEDiSTRAVA Consulting +44 20 3928 6900 acaciapharma@medistrava.com |
| US Investors LifeSci Advisors Irina Koffler +1 917-734-7387 ikoffler@lifesciadvisors.com | Media in Belgium and the Netherlands Chris Van Raemdonck +32 499 58 55 31 chrisvanraemdonck@telenet.be |
About Acacia Pharma
Acacia Pharma is a hospital pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of new products aimed at improving the care of patients undergoing significant treatments such as surgery, other invasive procedures, or cancer chemotherapy. The Company has identified important and commercially attractive unmet needs in these areas that its product portfolio aims to address.
Barhemsys® (amisulpride) injection is a selective dopamine (D2 and D3) receptor antagonist approved and available in the US for the treatment and prevention of postoperative nausea & vomiting (PONV) in adult patients.
Please see full prescribing information, including Important Safety Information, at www.BARHEMSYS.com.
Byfavo® (remimazolam) for injection, is an IV benzodiazepine sedative approved and available in the US for the induction and maintenance of procedural sedation in adults undergoing procedures lasting 30 minutes or less. Byfavo is in-licensed from Paion UK Limited for the US market.
Please see full prescribing information, including Important Safety Information and Boxed Warning, at www.BYFAVO.com.
APD403 (intravenous and oral amisulpride), a selective dopamine antagonist for chemotherapy induced nausea & vomiting (CINV) has successfully completed one proof-of-concept and one Phase 2 dose-ranging study in patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy.
Acacia Pharma has its US headquarters in Indianapolis, IN and its R&D operations are centred in Cambridge, UK. The Company is listed on the Euronext Brussels exchange under the ISIN code GB00BYWF9Y76 and ticker symbol ACPH.
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