Announcement of transactions with shares and linked securities in H. Lundbeck A/S made by executives and their closely associated persons and legal entities
Valby, Denmark, 1 September 2015 – H. Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck) hereby reports transactions made by executives and persons and legal entities closely associated to them with shares and linked securities in Lundbeck, cf. Section 28a of the Danish Securities Trading Act.
| Name: | Lene Skole |
| Job position: | Deputy Chairman, Board of Directors |
| ID code (ISIN code): | DK 0010287234 |
| Name of the issuer of the securities: | H. Lundbeck A/S |
| Description of the security: | Shares |
| Nature of the transaction: | Purchase of shares |
| Date of trading: | 1 September 2015 |
| Market on which the trading was affected: | Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen |
| Number of traded securities: | 5,000 |
| Market price of securities traded: | DKK 985,457 |
Persons under obligation to report such transactions are defined as members of the Executive Management, members of the Board of Directors and other executives of H. Lundbeck A/S and persons/entities closely associated to them.
Closely associated persons/entities could include but is not limited to:
- spouse or cohabitant
- children below the age of 18, provided that the executive is the custody holder
- legal entities in which the executive has a controlling influence
Lundbeck contacts
| Investors: | Media: |
| Palle Holm Olesen | Mads Kronborg |
| Vice President, Investor Relations | Director, Media Relations |
| PALO@lundbeck.com | MAVK@lundbeck.com |
| +45 36 43 24 26 | +45 36 43 30 00 |
About Lundbeck
H. Lundbeck A/S (LUN.CO, LUN DC, HLUYY) is a global pharmaceutical company specialized in brain diseases. For more than 50 years, we have been at the forefront of research within neuroscience. Our key areas of focus are alcohol dependence, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder, depression/anxiety, epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH).
An estimated 700 million people worldwide are living with brain disease and far too many suffer due to inadequate treatment, discrimination, a reduced number of working days, early retirement and other unnecessary consequences. Every day, we strive for improved treatment and a better life for people living with brain disease – we call this Progress in Mind.
Read more at www.lundbeck.com/global/about-us/progress-in-mind.
Our approximately 6,000 employees in 57 countries are engaged in the entire value chain throughout research, development, production, marketing and sales. Our pipeline consists of several late-stage development programs and our products are available in more than 100 countries. We have research centers in China, Denmark and the United States and production facilities in China, Denmark, France and Italy. Lundbeck generated revenue of approximately DKK 13.5 billion in 2014 (EUR 1.8 billion; USD 2.4 billion).
Lundbeck’s shares are listed on the stock exchange in Copenhagen under the symbol ”LUN”. Lundbeck has a sponsored Level 1 ADR program listed in the US (OTC) under the symbol ”HLUYY”.
For additional information, we encourage you to visit our corporate site www.lundbeck.com.
Safe Harbor/Forward-Looking Statements
The above information contains forward-looking statements that provide our expectations or forecasts of future events such as new product introductions, product approvals and financial performance.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and inaccurate assumptions. This may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and it may cause any or all of our forward-looking statements here or in other publications to be wrong. Factors that may affect future results include interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations, delay or failure of development projects, production problems, unexpected contract breaches or terminations, government-mandated or market-driven price decreases for Lundbeck's products, introduction of competing products, Lundbeck's ability to successfully market both new and existing products, exposure to product liability and other lawsuits, changes in reimbursement rules and governmental laws and related interpretation thereof, and unexpected growth in costs and expenses.
Certain assumptions made by Lundbeck are required by Danish Securities Law for full disclosure of material corporate information. Some assumptions, including assumptions relating to sales associated with product that is prescribed for unapproved uses, are made taking into account past performances of other similar drugs for similar disease states or past performance of the same drug in other regions where the product is currently marketed. It is important to note that although physicians may, as part of their freedom to practice medicine in the US, prescribe approved drugs for any use they deem appropriate, including unapproved uses, at Lundbeck, promotion of unapproved uses is strictly prohibited.