0001104659-21-000480.txt : 20210104 0001104659-21-000480.hdr.sgml : 20210104 20210104203725 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-21-000480 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20210101 FILED AS OF DATE: 20210104 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20210104 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Edwards Martin CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001640073 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-38067 FILM NUMBER: 21503638 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 15 NEW ENGLAND EXECUTIVE PARK CITY: BURLINGTON STATE: MA ZIP: 01803 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Verona Pharma plc CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001657312 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: X0 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3 MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE CITY: LONDON STATE: X0 ZIP: SE1 2RE BUSINESS PHONE: 011-44-0-2032834200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3 MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE CITY: LONDON STATE: X0 ZIP: SE1 2RE 3 1 tm211461d9_3.xml OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT X0206 3 2021-01-01 0 0001657312 Verona Pharma plc RNA 0001640073 Edwards Martin 3 MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE LONDON X0 SE1 2RE UNITED KINGDOM 1 0 0 0 Ordinary Shares 136776 D Consists of (i) 58,000 Ordinary Shares underlying Restricted Share Units, each of which represents a contingent right to receive one (1) Ordinary Share of the Issuer (which may be represented by 7,250 American Depositary Shares ("ADSs")); and (ii) 78,776 Ordinary Shares underlying 9,847 ADSs. Reported securities are represented by ADSs, each of which represents eight (8) Ordinary Shares of the Issuer. Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney. /s/ Claire Poll, Attorney-in-fact for Martin Edwards 2021-01-04 EX-24 2 tm211461d9_ex-24.htm EXHIBIT 24

 

Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

With respect to holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Verona Pharma plc (the “Company”), the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A attached hereto and as may be amended from time to time, or any of them signing singly, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to act as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

 

1.        prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

 

2.       execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder;


3.        do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and


4.        take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and resubstitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

 

The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Verona Pharma plc, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 19th day of December, 2020.

 

Signature:      /s/ Martin Edwards  
Print Name:     Martin Edwards  

 

 
 

 

Schedule A

 

Individuals Appointed as Attorney-in-Fact with Full Power of Substitution and Resubstitution

 

Claire Poll

Mark Hahn