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Allergy Therapeutics plc

("Allergy Therapeutics" or the "Company")

Rule 2.9 Announcement

For the purposes of Rule 2.9 of the Takeover Code, Allergy Therapeutics confirms that, as at the date of this announcement it has in issue 679,104,621 ordinary shares of 0.1p each. The International Securities Identification Number ("ISIN") number of the ordinary shares is GB00B02LCQ05.

The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company is 679,104,621. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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For further information, please contact:

Allergy Therapeutics

+44 (0)1903 845 820

Manuel Llobet, Chief Executive Officer

Martin Hopcroft, Interim Chief Financial Officer

Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser, Financial Adviser and Broker)

+44 (0)20 7886 2500

Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl, Corporate Finance

Rupert Dearden, Corporate Broking

Consilium Strategic Communications

+44 (0)20 3709 5700

Mary-Jane Elliott / David Daley / Davide Salvi

[email protected]

About Allergy Therapeutics

Allergy Therapeutics is an international commercial biotechnology company, headquartered in the UK, focussed on the treatment and diagnosis of allergic disorders, including aluminium free immunotherapy vaccines that have the potential to cure disease. The Group sells proprietary and third-party products from its subsidiaries in nine major European countries and via distribution agreements in an additional ten countries. Its broad pipeline of products in clinical development includes vaccines for grass, tree, house dust mite and peanut. For more information, please see www.allergytherapeutics.com