TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

VERNALIS PLC (the "Company")

29 April 2016

Vernalis plc (LSE: VER) announces that for the purposes of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company's total issued share capital at the date of this announcement is 445,133,540 ordinary shares of 1p each, with one voting right per share. There are no shares held in treasury.

The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 445,133,540.

The above figure of 445,133,540 shares may be used by shareholders as a denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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About Vernalis

Vernalis is a revenue-generating, specialty pharmaceutical company with significant expertise in drug development. The Company has three approved products: Tuzistra® XR targeting the US prescription cough cold market; Moxatag®, a once-a-day formulation of the antibiotic, amoxicillin, indicated for the treatment of tonsillitis and/or pharyngitis secondary to Streptococcus pyogenes in adults and paediatric patients 12 years and older; and frovatriptan (Frova®) for the acute treatment of migraine. It has an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and commercialise multiple novel products focussed on the US prescription cough cold market as well as eight programmes in its NCE development pipeline. Vernalis also has significant expertise in fragment- and structure-based drug discovery which it leverages to enter into collaborations with larger pharmaceutical companies. The Company's technologies, capabilities and products have been endorsed by collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Asahi Kasei Pharma, Biogen Idec, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech, H. Lundbeck A/S, Menarini, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Servier, Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., and Tris.

For further information about Vernalis, please visit www.vernalis.com.