Keeping pace with Open Orphan
It’s been an exceptionally busy few months for Open Orphan (ORPH) and its Executive Chairman Cathal Friel. Since reversing into Venn Life Sciences last summer, Open Orphan has set it’s sights on a series of acquisitions to forge a specialist pharmaceutical services group with a focus on orphan drugs. In raising the money to complete […]
Sunday Times – Irish firm Open Orphan #ORPH lined up for role in coronavirus fight
by Brian Carey An Irish company is on call to play a part in the fight against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Open Orphan, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London, has just completed the purchase of hVivo, a British company which owns the largest commercial quarantine clinic in northern Europe. […]
Open Orphan #ORPH – Results of Placing and Subscription
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Open Orphan #ORPH – Proposed Placing to raise a minimum of £5 million to fund growth and convert hVIVO proposal pipeline
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Open Orphan #ORPH – Compulsory Acquisition of Remaining hVIVO Shares
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Open Orphan #ORPH – Update on Placing
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Cathal Friel talks to Zak Mir about ‘sleeping giant’ hVIVO, and his plans for the new enlarged Open Orphan #ORPH
Open Orphan #ORPH announced the completion of its acquisition of UK-based hVivo Plc on Monday, 20th January 2020. Cathal Friel, Executive Chairman of Open Orphan commented, “I am hugely excited by the combination of Open Orphan and hVIVO. We have a fantastic team, substantial revenue potential and the opportunity to grow quickly in the year […]
Open Orphan #ORPH announces completion of the merger with hVIVO and re-admission
Open Orphan plc (ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services company which has a focus on orphan drugs, is pleased to announce that admission to trading on AIM and Euronext Growth of its existing ordinary share capital and the new ordinary shares to be issued as consideration in connection with the Merger, will commence at 8.00 a.m. […]
Open Orphan #ORPH – hVIVO merger offer now wholly unconditional
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Open Orphan #ORPH – Second Closing of the hVIVO Offer, No extension of the Offer
Second Closing of the Offer No extension of the Offer Introduction On 9 December 2019, the boards of Open Orphan and hVIVO announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-equity offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of hVIVO (the “Offer”). Under the terms of the Offer, hVIVO […]