Nuvo Research Inc. to Complete Share Consolidation

MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Nuvo Research Inc. (TSX: NRI) (the "Company" or "Nuvo"), a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to building a portfolio of products for the topical treatment of pain and the development of its immune modulating drug candidate WF10, today announced that it will proceed with its proposed share consolidation (the "Consolidation"), as approved by the shareholders of Nuvo at the annual and special meeting held on May 15, 2012, on the basis of 65 pre-Consolidation common shares for one (1) post-Consolidation common share.

The Company expects that the Consolidation will reduce the number of outstanding common shares from approximately 568.5 million to approximately 8.7 million. Nuvo will not change its name as part of the Consolidation, but will issue new share certificates under a new CUSIP number, which is 67072X505. The Company has received conditional approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") to effect the Consolidation and subject to final confirmation by the TSX, it is expected that the post-Consolidation common shares will begin trading on the TSX at the opening of markets on or about May 9, 2013. The post-Consolidation common shares will continue to trade on the TSX under the symbol "NRI".

"This share consolidation allows Nuvo to attract both U.S. and Canadian institutional investors that avoid penny stock investments and improves our capital structure," said Stephen Lemieux, Nuvo's Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. "It will also allow Nuvo to continue its capital market strategy of listing its shares on a U.S. based stock exchange in the future."

Letters of transmittal with respect to the Consolidation will be mailed out to all registered shareholders by the Company's transfer agent, Canadian Stock Transfer Company Inc. ("CST"). The letter of transmittal describes the process by which shareholders may obtain new share certificates representing their post-Consolidation common shares and all registered shareholders will be required to send their share certificates representing pre-Consolidation common shares with a properly executed letter of transmittal to CST, in accordance with the instructions provided in the letter of transmittal. Shareholders who hold their common shares through a broker or other intermediary and do not have common shares registered in their name will not need to complete a letter of transmittal.

About Nuvo Research Inc.
Nuvo is a publicly traded, Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. The Company is building a portfolio of products for the treatment of pain through internal research and development. The Company's product portfolio includes Pennsaid^®, Pliaglis^® and Synera^®. Pennsaid, a topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), is used to treat the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee(s). Pennsaid is sold in the United States by Mallinckrodt Inc., a Covidien company, in Canada by Paladin Labs Inc. and in several European countries. Pliaglis is a topical local anesthetic cream which provides topical local analgesia for superficial dermatological procedures. The Company has licensed worldwide marketing rights to Pliaglis to Galderma Pharma S.A., a global pharmaceutical company specialized in dermatology. Synera is a topical patch that combines lidocaine, tetracaine and heat, approved in the United States to provide local dermal analgesia for superficial venous access and superficial dermatological procedures and in Europe, for surface anaesthesia of normal intact skin. Nuvo currently markets Synera in the United States and its licensing partner, Eurocept International B.V., has initiated a pan-European launch of Synera (under the name Rapydan^®) in several European countries. The Company is also developing WF10, for the treatment of immune related diseases.

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SOURCE Nuvo Research Inc.