Additional Allotment and New Issue including PDMR

RNS Number : 7234N

Begbies Traynor Group PLC

24 January 2023

 

24 January 2023

Begbies Traynor Group plc

( "Group" or "Company")

Additional Allotment and New Issue including director/PDMR shareholder

Begbies Traynor Group plc, announces that it has today applied to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange for an additional listing of 148,641 fully paid up ordinary 5 pence shares in the Group ("Ordinary Shares") to satisfy the exercise by staff of certain share options.

Incorporated within this additional listing are Ordinary Shares which have been allotted to Nick Taylor, Group Finance Director, who has exercised share options over 250,000 ordinary 5 pence shares in the Group at an exercise price of 63.12p ("the Options").  Settling the Options net of the relevant option price has resulted in the additional issue and allotment of 140,720 Ordinary Shares. In addition to exercising the Options Nick Taylor has also sold an aggregate of 103,000 Ordinary Shares from his existing beneficial holding in the Group with 70,000 being sold on 23 January at 144 pence and 33,000 sold today at 144.50 pence.

Admission of these shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange is expected to occur on 30 January 2023 f ollowing which the total number of shares in issue and total voting rights will be 154,506,246. The Group does not hold any shares in treasury and, therefore, the above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company.  

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

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ("PCA")
a)	Name	Nick Taylor
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position / status	Group Finance Director
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial Notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Begbies Traynor Group plc
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	Ordinary Shares and share options granted at an option price 63.12 pence over 250,000 Ordinary Shares.
b)	Nature of the transactions	Sale of 103,000 Ordinary Shares and the exercise of share options over 250,000 Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 63.12 pence.  The Options have been exercised net of the relevant option prices, in each case using the closing share price on 20 January 2023 of 144.40 pence. This has resulted in the issue and allotment of 140,720 fully paid Ordinary Shares for which the Company has applied to AIM for listing and which upon admission will rank pari passu with the Company's other Ordinary Shares.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 63.12 pence 140,720 144 pence 70,000 144.50 pence 33,000
e)	Date of the transaction	23 and 24 January 2023
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (AIM)

Enquiries please contact:

Begbies Traynor Group plc                                                            0161 837 1700

John Humphrey - Group Company Secretary

Canaccord Genuity Limited     020 7523 8350

(Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Emma Gabriel / Patrick Dolaghan

Shore Capital   020 7408 4090

(Joint Broker)

Malachy McEntyre / Mark Percy / Anita Ghanekar / James Thomas

MHP Communications     020 3128 8572

Reg Hoare / Katie Hunt / Pauline Guenot                                [e-mail]  

 

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