Recommended Increased Share Offer for Synchronica plc ("Synchronica") by Myriad Group AG ("Myriad")

Posting of Revised Offer Document and Synchronica Shareholder Circular to Synchronica Shareholders

/NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO THE SAME WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION/

ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS, UK, March 14, 2012 /CNW/ - Further to the announcement on 7 March 2012 of the Revised Offer and the announcement on 12 March 2012 setting out the revised posting arrangements, the Board of Myriad and the Board of Synchronica are pleased to announce that the Revised Offer Document and the Synchronica Shareholder Circular have been posted (or otherwise made publicly available) to Synchronica Shareholders and, for information only, to persons with information rights, participants in the Synchronica Share Option Schemes, and to holders of Synchronica Warrants.

Myriad is a Swiss joint stock company traded on the Main Standard of the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol MYRN.  Synchronica is a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with its ordinary shares traded on the AIM Exchange of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol SYNC and on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada under the symbol SYN.

To accept the Revised Offer in respect of Synchronica Shares, the Forms of Acceptance (posted with the Original Offer Document) should be completed for shares held in certificated form, signed and returned, or electronic acceptances should be made for shares held in uncertificated form, in accordance with the instructions set out in the Original Offer Document and in the Revised Offer Document, as soon as possible and, in any event, so as to be received or settled by no later than 1.00 p.m. (London time), corresponding to 8.00 a.m. (Toronto time), on 4 April 2012.

Capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meanings ascribed to them in the Revised Offer Document.

Zeus Capital, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Myriad and for no one else in connection with the Offer and is not advising any other person or treating any other person as its client in relation thereto and will not be responsible to anyone other than Myriad for providing the protections afforded to clients of Zeus Capital, or for giving advice to any other person in relation to the Offer, the contents of this announcement or any other matter referred to herein.

BDO Corporate Finance, a division of BDO LLP, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Synchronica, as financial advisor in relation to this announcement, and is not acting for or advising any other person and accordingly will not be responsible to any other person other than Synchronica for providing the protections afforded to the clients of BDO LLP or for providing advice in relation to this announcement, or any other matter referred to herein.

This announcement is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell, or form part of, or constitute the solicitation of an offer to purchase or subscribe for or an invitation to purchase, any securities.

This announcement does not constitute a prospectus or a prospectus equivalent document. Shareholders are advised to read carefully the formal documentation in relation to the Offer once it has been despatched.  The proposal for the Offer will be made solely through the Original Offer Document and the accompanying Forms of Acceptance, and the Revised Offer Document, which contain the full terms and conditions of the Offer, including details of how to accept the Offer.  Please read carefully the Original Offer Document, the Revised Offer Document and the Synchronica Shareholder Circular in their entirety before making a decision with regards to the Offer.  Any acceptance or other response to the proposals should be made on the basis of the information in the Original Offer Document, the Forms of Acceptance, the Revised Offer Document and the Synchronica Shareholder Circular.

Dealing Disclosure Requirements

Under Rule 8.3(a) of the City Code, any person who is interested in 1 per cent. or more of any class of relevant securities of an offeree company or of any paper offeror (being any offeror other than an offeror in respect of which it has been announced that its offer is, or is likely to be, solely in cash) must make an Opening Position Disclosure following the commencement of the Offer Period, and, if later, following the announcement in which any paper offeror is first identified. An Opening Position Disclosure must contain details of the person's interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any paper offeror(s). An Opening Position Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(a) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the 10th business day following the commencement of the Offer Period and, if appropriate, by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the 10th business day following the announcement in which any paper offeror is first identified. Relevant persons who deal in the relevant securities of the offeree company or of a paper offeror prior to the deadline for making an Opening Position Disclosure must instead make a Dealing Disclosure.

Under Rule 8.3(b) of the City Code, any person who is, or becomes, interested in 1 per cent. or more of any class of relevant securities of the offeree company or of any paper offeror must make a Dealing Disclosure if the person deals in any relevant securities of the offeree company or of any paper offeror. A Dealing Disclosure must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person's interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any paper offeror(s), save to the extent that these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing.

If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant securities of an offeree company or a paper offeror, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.

Opening Position Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4).

Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can be found in the Disclosure Table on the Takeover Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant securities in issue, when the Offer Period commenced and when any offeror was first identified.  You should contact the Panel's Market Surveillance Unit on [phone] if you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure.

Overseas Jurisdictions

The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom may be restricted by the laws of those jurisdictions and therefore persons into whose possession this announcement comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions. Failure to comply with any such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
This announcement has been prepared for the purposes of complying with English law and the City Code and the information disclosed may not be the same as that which would have been disclosed if this announcement had been prepared in accordance with the laws and regulations of any jurisdiction outside of England.

In particular, this announcement is not an offer which is being made, directly or indirectly, in or into or by the use of the mails of, or by any means or instrumentality (including, without limitation, email, facsimile transmission, telex, telephone, the internet or other forms of electronic transmission) of interstate or foreign commerce, or of any facility of a national securities exchange of a Restricted Jurisdiction and the Offer cannot be accepted by any such use, means, instrumentality or facility from or within a Restricted Jurisdiction.

Publication on website

A copy of this announcement is available free of charge on:
Myriad's website at www.myriadgroup.com/investors/share-offer-synchronica.aspx and on
Synchronica's website at www.synchronica.com/syncml-home/synchronica-offer-from-myriad-ag.html 

Enquiries:

For Myriad

Zeus Capital Limited

Richard Hughes

Nick Cowles

Andrew Jones

[phone]

www.zeuscapital.co.uk 

For Synchronica

BDO Corporate Finance

John Stephan

David Abbott

Susan Brice

[phone]