Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3616Y

First Derivatives PLC

01 September 2009

 

01 September 2009

First Derivatives plc

('First Derivatives' or the 'Company')

(AIM:FDP.L, IEX:GYQ.I)

Director's Shareholding Notification

The Board of First Derivatives announces that Mr. Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer and founder shareholder, has today notified the Company that on 28 August 2009 he sold 117,647 ordinary shares in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to Mr. Graham Ferguson, Finance Director, and a further 235,294 Ordinary Shares to Mr. Paul Kinney, Non-executive Director, all at a price of 255 pence per ordinary share. 

Following these two transactions Mr. Conlon has a beneficial holding of [8,743,059] Ordinary Shares being [63.66] per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

Mr. Ferguson has a beneficial holding in the company of 117,647 Ordinary Shares being 0.86 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company. 

Mr. Kinney acquired the shares through Ishitara Consulting Limited, a company of which he is a director and beneficial owner, and which now holds 235,294 Ordinary Shares being 1.71 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company. 

Contact:

Enquiries:

First Derivatives plc                                    Tel: [phone]

Brian Conlon

Managing Director

www.firstderivatives.com

Charles Stanley Securities                          Tel: [phone]

Nominated Advisor

Russell Cook

Carl Holmes

Goodbody Corporate Finance                       Tel: [phone]

IEX Advisor

Diane Hodgson

Linda Hickey

 

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