{"id":19833,"date":"2022-01-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2022\/01\/10\/xlife-sciences-plans-listing-on-the-sparks-segment-of-six-swiss-exchange\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:00:00","slug":"xlife-sciences-plans-listing-on-the-sparks-segment-of-six-swiss-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2022\/01\/10\/xlife-sciences-plans-listing-on-the-sparks-segment-of-six-swiss-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Xlife Sciences plans listing on the &#8220;Sparks&#8221; segment of SIX Swiss Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<p>&#8211; <i>Listing on the new &#8220;Sparks&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nsegment of SIX Swiss Exchange for small and medium-sized companies is planned&#13;<br \/>\nfor Q1 2022, subject to market environment<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; Xlife Sciences AG is a Swiss company focused&#13;<br \/>\non the value development and commercialization of promising research projects&#13;<br \/>\nfrom universities and other research institutions in the field of life sciences<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; The company is involved as incubator and&#13;<br \/>\naccelerator in in 23 project companies until the successful exit after the&#13;<br \/>\nproof-of-concept phase with the goal of participating in their <\/i><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<i>long-term value development<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; Xlife Sciences is currently listed on the&#13;<br \/>\nMunich Stock Exchange and has a market capitalization of EUR 233 million as per&#13;<br \/>\nend of 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nZURICH,&#13;<br \/>\nSWITZERLAND &#8211; EQS Newswire &#8211; 10 January 2022 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlifesciences.ch\/\">Xlife&#13;<br \/>\nSciences AG<\/a> (XLS DE) confirms its intention to be listed on SIX Swiss Exchange,&#13;<br \/>\nas communicated in November 2021. Subject to market environment, the listing on&#13;<br \/>\nthe new &#8220;Sparks&#8221; segment of SIX Swiss Exchange is still planned for&#13;<br \/>\nQ1 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bernhard Scholz, Chairman of the Board of Xlife Sciences, comments:&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Switzerland has a strong and dynamic life sciences industry and&#13;<br \/>\ncorrespondingly knowledgeable investors and analysts. The new Sparks segment of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Swiss stock exchange is attractive for Xlife Sciences as an emerging growth&#13;<br \/>\ncompany and should further increase our visibility and market&#13;<br \/>\ntransparency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oliver R. Baumann, CEO of Xlife Sciences, added: &#8220;With the planned&#13;<br \/>\nlisting in Switzerland and the accompanying move to a regulated market, we aim&#13;<br \/>\nto make our company more accessible to institutional investors, increase the&#13;<br \/>\nliquidity of the stock and further enhance the transparency of Xlife&#13;<br \/>\nSciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Company<\/b><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nXlife Sciences is a Swiss company focused on the value development and&#13;<br \/>\ncommercialization of promising research projects from universities and other&#13;<br \/>\nresearch institutions in the field of life sciences. The goal is to bridge the&#13;<br \/>\ngap from research and development to healthcare markets.<\/p>\n<p>Xlife Sciences brings carefully selected early-stage projects in the four&#13;<br \/>\nareas of technological platforms, biotechnology\/therapies, medical technology,&#13;<br \/>\nand artificial intelligence\/digital health to the next stage of development.&#13;<br \/>\nThe focus is on preclinical projects in biotechnology that are acquired with a&#13;<br \/>\nsuccessful spin-off by a university, a clinical center, or a research&#13;<br \/>\ninstitution. Currently, eleven employees and eight consultants work for Xlife&#13;<br \/>\nSciences AG; across all project companies, there are more than 120 scientific&#13;<br \/>\nemployees, researchers, and project managers in total.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Xlife Sciences has proven experience in the life sciences sector&#13;<br \/>\nthanks to the many years of expertise in successful partnering of the company&#13;<br \/>\nfounders and the scientific advisory board. In addition to Chairman Dr.&#13;<br \/>\nBernhard Scholz, the Board of Directors comprises Christian Faber, Prof. Dr.&#13;<br \/>\nhabil. Michael B. Klein, Mark S. M\u00fcller, and Simon Sch\u00f6ni. The Management Team&#13;<br \/>\nconsists of CEO Oliver R. Baumann (also member of the Board of Directors), CFO&#13;<br \/>\nCarl von Halem, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) Frank Pl\u00f6ger, and Beat Kl\u00e4ui as&#13;<br \/>\nHead of Accounting &amp; Taxation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<b>The Value Chain<\/b><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nXlife Sciences generally focuses its involvement in a project on the early&#13;<br \/>\nphase, i.e., until completion of the so-called &#8220;proof-of-concept&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nphase, and subsequently strives to commercialize the project company, e.g.,&#13;<br \/>\nthrough a sale of the company or individual product candidates (&#8220;trade&#13;<br \/>\nsale&#8221;), through out-licensing of products or patents, or through an IPO of&#13;<br \/>\nthe project company. This strategy enables Xlife Sciences to realize an&#13;<br \/>\nincrease in value already after the proof-of-concept phase. Potential future&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth opportunities are also captured with possible milestone payments and&#13;<br \/>\nroyalties in the later market phase.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<b>The Project Companies<\/b><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nXlife Sciences cooperates with 15 prominent universities and research&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutes from Germany and Switzerland, and reviews invention disclosures and&#13;<br \/>\nproject ideas in a thorough and structured three-step due-diligence process. If&#13;<br \/>\nXlife Sciences decides to take over the invention disclosure, usually a&#13;<br \/>\nseparate project company is founded for this purpose and prepared for the&#13;<br \/>\npossible exit after a successful proof-of-concept phase (2-3 years). In&#13;<br \/>\naddition, these companies are supported in positioning, structuring, and&#13;<br \/>\nimplementing their concepts, for example by providing management services.&#13;<br \/>\nFurthermore, Xlife Sciences aims to create and exploit synergies between the&#13;<br \/>\nproject companies.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the portfolio of Xlife Sciences comprises 23 project companies.&#13;<br \/>\nFive project companies are based in Switzerland, the others mostly in Germany.&#13;<br \/>\nAccording to the current assessment of the Management Team, the project&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies Veraxa Biotech, Laxxon Medical, Lysatpharma, Quadira Biosciences,&#13;<br \/>\nSaniva, Vitruvia, Synimmune, Ix Therapeutics, and Baliopharm are among the&#13;<br \/>\nshort- and medium-term growth drivers of Xlife Sciences. These growth drivers&#13;<br \/>\ncan be, for example, an exit, the completion of the preclinical development&#13;<br \/>\nphase, further commitments of federal funds or even the first-time revenue&#13;<br \/>\ngeneration.<\/p>\n<p><b>Planned listing on SIX Swiss Exchange<\/b><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCurrently, the company is admitted to trading on the Munich Stock Exchange&#13;<br \/>\n(unregulated market [&#8220;Freiverkehr&#8221;] in the segment m:access) with a&#13;<br \/>\nmarket capitalization of EUR 233 million as of the end of 2021. Concurrently&#13;<br \/>\nwith the listing on SIX Swiss Exchange on the new &#8220;Sparks&#8221; segment,&#13;<br \/>\ntrading of the shares of Xlife Sciences AG on the Munich Stock Exchange shall&#13;<br \/>\nbe ceased for regulatory reasons. The shares will be tradeable on SIX Swiss&#13;<br \/>\nExchange after the switch to SIX Swiss Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Following the intended listing on SIX Swiss Exchange, the proportion of&#13;<br \/>\nfreely tradable shares (&#8220;free float&#8221;) is expected remain at&#13;<br \/>\napproximately 44%, the current quota on the Munich Stock Exchange. The majority&#13;<br \/>\nof the shares will continue to be held by the two founders as well as the&#13;<br \/>\nmembers of the Board of Directors and management team.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 1, 2021, fast-growing, small and medium-sized enterprises&#13;<br \/>\n(SMEs) have been able to list on the &#8220;Sparks&#8221; segment of SIX Swiss&#13;<br \/>\nExchange. This is a regulated trading segment tailored to the requirements of&#13;<br \/>\nSMEs and their investors. Among other things, the segment provides for easier&#13;<br \/>\naccess for younger companies and a condensed trading window. Apart from that,&#13;<br \/>\nSMEs are subject to the same prospectus requirements, the same regulatory&#13;<br \/>\noversight and the same reporting requirements as companies traded on the main&#13;<br \/>\nsegment of SIX Swiss Exchange.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2022-01-10\/114627\/xlife-sciences-plans-listing-on-the-sparks-segment-of-six-swiss-exchange\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Listing on the new &#8220;Sparks&#8221;&#13; segment of SIX Swiss Exchange for small and medium-sized companies is planned&#13; for Q1 2022, subject to market environment &#8211; Xlife Sciences AG is a Swiss company focused&#13; on the value development and commercialization of promising research projects&#13; from universities and other research institutions in the field of life &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}