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Application for Listing of Shire Limited Ordinary Shares
Date:5/22/2008

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire Limited ("Shire") (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that an application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange for 559,725,147 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the capital of Shire to be admitted to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange. Dealings will commence today at 8.00 a.m. (GMT).

As announced on 22 May 2008, the High Court sanctioned the scheme of arrangement proposed between Shire plc and its ordinary shareholders. Under the terms of the scheme, Shire will issue ordinary shares to former holders of ordinary shares in Shire plc on a one-for-one basis. Similarly, Shire plc's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") will be replaced by Shire's ADSs on a one-for-one basis and NASDAQ dealings will commence today at 9.30 a.m. (EST).

Application has also been made for block listings amounting in aggregate to 6,378,000 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the capital of Shire to be admitted to the Official List upon issue. The block listings consist of 82,000 shares under the Shire Pharmaceuticals Executive Share Option Scheme, 6,200,000 shares under the Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme, 14,000 shares under the BioChem Pharma Stock Option Plan and 82,000 shares under the Shire plc Sharesave Plan. Upon issue, these shares shall rank pari passu with all other ordinary shares of Shire.

From today Shire plc will be registered as a private company, wholly owned by Shire, and the listing of Shire plc's ordinary shares of 5 pence each on the Official List will be cancelled as of 8.00 a.m. (GMT) today.

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SHIRE LIMITED

Shire's strategic goal is to become the leading specialty biopharmaceutical company that focuses on meeting the needs of the specialist physician. Shire focuses its busi
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