Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

St. James's Place

St. James’s Place plc (“SJP”)

PDMR – Exercise of share options held under the SJP Executive Share Option Scheme 2000 (“ESOS”)

SJP announces the following changes in SJP shares held by the Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility (“PDMR”) named below.

On 8 November 2011, PDMR Sonia Gravestock notified SJP that on 8 November 2011 she exercised 30,000 options under the ESOS with an exercise price of 145 pence per share and subsequently sold 30,000 ordinary 15p shares in SJP at 333.99 pence per share on the same date.

Mrs Gravestock’s interests in ordinary shares of SJP after the above transactions are as follows:

Beneficial
186,979

With the exception of the changes notified in this announcement, the PDMR’s shareholdings in SJP are unchanged. This notification is made in accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4R(1)(a).

9 November 2011