Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1671K

AJ Bell PLC

30 December 2020

 

AJ Bell plc

("AJ Bell", the "Company")

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

Further to the announcement earlier today about the sale of ordinary shares of £0.000125 each in the Company (Ordinary Shares) by Andy Bell, the chief executive officer, and Fergus Lyons, the AJ Bell Investcentre managing director, who are each a person discharging managerial responsibility in the Company (PDMR), t he Company announces that it has been notified of the below transactions (Transactions). 

(1)  The PDMRs who are named in column (1) of the below table sold the number of Ordinary Shares set alongside their respective names in column (2) of the below table on 30 December 2020 at a price of 460 pence per Ordinary Share .

(1)	(2)
PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares sold
Andy Bell	3,624,994
Fergus Lyons	1,755,628

(2)  Following completion of the Transactions, each of the PDMRs named in column (1) of the below table is interested in the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company and percentage of the Company's issued share capital set alongside their respective names in columns (2) and (3) of the below table.

(1)	(2)	(3)
PDMR	Number of shares in which interested	% of issued share capital
Andy Bell	93,085,552	22.68%
Fergus Lyons	15,746,388	3.84%

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details.

ENQUIRIES

AJ Bell  

· Bruce Robinson, Company Secretary  [phone]

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Andrew James Bell
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive/PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	AJ Bell plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800VNKA7DPWXWJJ36
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of £0.000125 each  GB00BFZNLB60
b)	Nature of the transaction	Sale of Ordinary Shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		460 pence	3,624,994
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Aggregated Price	N/A single transaction
f)	Date of the transaction	30 December 2020
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Fergus John Lyons
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	AJ Bell Investcentre Managing Director/PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	AJ Bell plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800VNKA7DPWXWJJ36
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of £0.000125 each  GB00BFZNLB60
b)	Nature of the transaction	Sale of Ordinary Shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		460 pence	1,755,628
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Aggregated Price	N/A single transaction
f)	Date of the transaction	30 December 2020
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

Name of officer of issuer responsible for making notification: Bruce Robinson (Company Secretary)

Date of notification: 30 December 2020

 

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