Apex Bioventures Acquisition Corp. Sets Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders to Approve D...( HILLSBOROUGH Calif. May 7 /- Apex Bio...),Health

HILLSBOROUGH, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apex Bioventures Acquisition Corporation (NYSE Amex: PEX) ("Apex") announced today that a special meeting of stockholders will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at the offices of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., located at 666 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

At the special meeting, Apex's stockholders will be asked to consider and vote on a plan of liquidation and dissolution of Apex. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2009 will be entitled to vote at the special meeting.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

This press release is not a proxy statement or a solicitation of proxies from Apex's stockholders. Any solicitation of proxies will be made only by the definitive proxy statement of Apex that will be mailed to all stockholders. Stockholders of Apex and other interested persons are advised to read Apex's preliminary proxy statement and definitive proxy statement, when available, in connection with Apex's solicitation of proxies for the special meeting because these proxy statements will contain important information about Apex and the proposed dissolution. Apex's preliminary proxy statement is available from the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2009.

Apex and its directors and officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of Apex's stockholders in connection with the proposed liquidation and other matters with respect to which the company's stockholders will be asked to vote pursuant to the proxy statement. Information reg
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