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Freeline Reports October 2022 Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)
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Freeline Reports October 2022 Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)

LONDON, Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc (Nasdaq: FRLN) today announced that on October 31, 2022, the Company granted three newly hired employees non-statutory options to purchase an aggregate of 75,500 of the Company’s ordinary shares.

The awards were granted as an inducement material to the employees entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) and were approved by an independent subcommittee of the remuneration committee of Freeline’s board of directors. The awards were granted pursuant to the terms of Freeline’s 2021 Equity Inducement Plan, which was adopted by Freeline’s board of directors in September 2021.

Each of the options has an exercise price of $0.76 per share, which was the closing price of Freeline’s American Depositary Shares reported by Nasdaq on October 28, 2022, the last trading day preceding the grant date. The options have a maximum 10-year term and vest over a four-year service period, with 25% of the award vesting on the first anniversary of the vesting commencement date, with the balance vesting monthly over the remaining three years.

About Freeline Therapeutics
Freeline is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transformative adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-mediated systemic gene therapies. The company is dedicated to improving patient lives through innovative, one-time treatments for inherited systemic debilitating diseases. Freeline uses its proprietary, rationally designed AAV vector and capsid (AAVS3), along with novel promoters and transgenes, to deliver a functional copy of a therapeutic gene into human liver cells, thereby expressing a persistent functional level of the missing or dysfunctional protein into the patient’s bloodstream. The company’s integrated gene therapy platform includes in-house capabilities in research and clinical development. The company has clinical programs in hemophilia B, Fabry disease, and Gaucher disease Type 1. Freeline is headquartered in the UK and has operations in Germany and the U.S.

Media and Investor Contact:

Naomi Aoki
naomi.aoki@freeline.life 
Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations & Communications
+ 1 617 283 4298

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