Issue of Shares & Employee Equity Awards

Gresham Technologies PLC

04 June 2024

 

RNS

4 June 2024

Gresham Technologies plc

Issue of Shares & Employee Equity Awards

Gresham Technologies plc (LSE: "GHT", "Gresham", "Group", "Company"), the leading software and services company that specialises in providing solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management, announces that it has issued, conditional on admission, 218,054 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in respect of equity awards to certain employees and executive directors of the Company (together, "Employees"), pursuant to the Company's annual bonus scheme in relation to FY23 performance.

The Bonus Shares were subscribed for at a price of 163 pence per Ordinary Share which has been funded through a proportion of the Employees' respective bonus entitlement in respect of FY23 and are beneficially held through the Company's global nominee service.

Details of Ordinary Shares issued to executive directors are set out in the table below:

	Bonus Shares	Direct and Beneficial Interest (#)	Direct and Beneficial Interest (%)
Ian Manocha (CEO)	13,639	180,279	0.21%
Tom Mullan (CFO)	8,277	84,331	0.10%

Application will be made for the admission to trading of the new Ordinary Shares on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and to listing on the Official List, with dealings expected to commence at 8 a.m. on or around 6 June 2024.

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu with all existing Ordinary Shares, the Company will have a total of 84,092,512 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue. The Company currently holds no shares in treasury.

The above figure of 84,092,512 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries

Gresham Technologies plc	[phone]
Ian Manocha / Tom Mullan
Singer Capital Markets (Financial Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Shaun Dobson / Jen Boorer
Alma Strategic Communications	[phone]
Hilary Buchanan / Will Ellis Hancock

Inside information

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 ("MAR"). Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service ("RIS"), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Rule 26.1 Disclosure

In accordance with Rule 26.1 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, a copy of this announcement will be available on the investor section of the Company's website at https://www.greshamtech.com/invest-in-us by no later than 12 noon (London time) on the business day immediately following the date of this announcement.  The content of the website referred to in this announcement is not incorporated into and does not form part of this announcement.

Note to editors

Gresham Technologies plc is a leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management. Listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (GHT.L) and headquartered in the City of London, its customers include some of the world's largest financial institutions and corporates, all of whom are served locally from offices located in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

Gresham's award-winning Clareti software platform is a highly flexible and scalable platform, available on-site or in the cloud, designed to address today's most challenging financial control, risk management, data governance and regulatory compliance problems. Learn more at www.greshamtech.com.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Ian Manocha
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Gresham Technologies plc
b)	LEI	213800F71LW7L4Y7QL29
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 5 pence each GB0008808825
b)	Nature of the transaction	Issue of shares to satisfy FY23 annual bonus
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price	Volume
		163 pence	13,639
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a - single transaction
e)	Date of the transaction	31 May 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	Off Market Transaction

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Tom Mullan
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Financial Officer
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Gresham Technologies plc
b)	LEI	213800F71LW7L4Y7QL29
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 5 pence each GB0008808825
b)	Nature of the transaction	Issue of shares to satisfy FY23 annual bonus
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price	Volume
		163 pence	8,277
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a - single transaction
e)	Date of the transaction	31 May 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	Off Market Transaction

 

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