REGULATED INFORMATION
GHENT, Belgium, 15 April 2015 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX] today announced, in accordance with Article 14 of the Belgian Law of 2 May 2007 regarding the publication of major shareholdings in issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market (the "Transparency Law"), that it received a notification of shareholding from FMR LLC.
The above shareholder notified that it has exceeded the 3% threshold and now holds 1,634,079 Ablynx shares, which represent 3.01% of the current 54,304,407 outstanding shares of Ablynx.
Full versions of all transparency notifications are available on the website of Ablynx, under the section Investors:
http://www.ablynx.com/investors/share-information/major-shareholders/.
About Ablynx
Ablynx:
http://www.ablynx.com/ is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of Nanobodies®:
http://www.ablynx.com/technology-innovation/understanding-nanobodies/, proprietary therapeutic proteins based on single-domain antibody fragments, which combine the advantages of conventional antibody drugs with some of the features of small-molecule drugs. Ablynx is dedicated to creating new medicines which will make a real difference to society. Today, the Company has more than 30 proprietary and partnered programmes:
http://www.ablynx.com/rd-portfolio/overview/ in development in various therapeutic areas including inflammation, haematology, oncology and respiratory disease. The Company has collaborations with multiple pharmaceutical companies including AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck & Co., Inc, Merck Serono and Novartis. The Company is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found on www.ablynx.com:
http://www.ablynx.com/.
For more information, please contact
Ablynx:
Dr Edwin Moses
CEO
t: +32 (0)9 262 00 07
m: +32 (0)473 39 50 68
e: edwin.moses@ablynx.com:
mailto:edwin.moses@ablynx.com
Marieke Vermeersch
Associate Director Investor Relations
t: +32 (0)9 262 00 82
m: +32 (0)479 49 06 03
e: marieke.vermeersch@ablynx.com:
mailto:marieke.vermeersch@ablynx.com%20
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Ablynx media relations Consilium Strategic Communications:
Mary-Jane Elliott, Jonathan Birt, Amber Bielecka, Lindsey Neville
t: +44 203 709 5700
e: ablynx@consilium-comms.com:
mailto:ablynx@consilium-comms.com
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Source: Ablynx via Globenewswire