Exercise of share awards and total voting rights

Alpha Fin Markets Consulting plc

17 August 2023

 

17 August 2023

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting plc

                                        ('Alpha FMC', 'Alpha', the 'Company' or 'Group')                                       

Exercise of share awards, RSU vesting, EBT share purchase

and total voting rights

Alpha FMC (AIM: AFM), a leading global provider of specialist consultancy services to the asset management, wealth management and insurance industries, announces that 631,205 vested share options under the Joint Share Option Plan ("JSOP"), Management Incentive Plan ("MIP") and Employee Incentive Plan ("EIP") were exercised on 16 August 2023. A further 388,732 Restricted Stock Units ("RSU") have vested and the shares were transferred under the MIP and EIP.

The Company will satisfy these exercised share options and vested RSUs using existing shares held in the Alpha Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT").

The Company has also been notified by Intertrust Employee Benefit Trustee Limited, the trustee of the Company's EBT, that on 16 August 2023, the EBT purchased a total of 1,033,954 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of 367.5 pence per share (the "Purchase") being the closing mid-market price of an Ordinary Share on the last practicable day before the Purchase.  These shares will be held in the EBT, a discretionary trust, and are intended to be used to satisfy the exercise of share options by employees, including the Directors of the Company.

Following the above, the Company will have 122,009,736 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 7,627,623 are held in the Company's Employee Benefit Trust.  No shares are held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company will therefore be 122,009,736. This figure includes the 7,627,623 Ordinary Shares currently held in the EBT as the Ordinary Shares hold voting rights albeit the EBT does not exercise these voting rights nor receive dividends in respect of these shares. Therefore, 114,382,113 Ordinary Shares have exercisable voting rights and the Group's earnings per share calculation excludes the 7,627,623 Ordinary Shares held by the EBT.

This figure of 122,009,736 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

For further information, please contact:

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting plc	[phone]
Luc Baqué (Chief Executive Officer) John Paton (Chief Financial Officer)
Investec Bank plc - Nominated Adviser and Joint Corporate Broker	[phone]
Patrick Robb James Rudd Harry Hargreaves
Berenberg - Joint Corporate Broker	[phone]
Toby Flaux James Thompson Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff
Camarco - Financial PR	[phone]
Ed Gascoigne-Pees Phoebe Pugh
Prism Cosec - Company Secretary	[phone]
Sally Chandler

About Alpha FMC:

Headquartered in the UK and quoted on the AIM of the London Stock Exchange, Alpha is a leading global provider of specialist consultancy services to the asset management, wealth management and insurance industries.

It has the largest dedicated team in those industries, with approximately 1,000 consultants globally, operating from 17 client-facing offices spanning the UK, North America, Europe and APAC. Alpha has worked with all of the world's top 20 and 80% of the world's top 50 asset managers by AUM, along with a wide range of insurance and other buy-side firms.

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