Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 9535J

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

18 June 2014

 



Hargreaves Lansdown plc

("Hargreaves Lansdown plc" or "the Company")  

DIRECTOR / PDMR Shareholding  

18^th June 2014

Notification of Transaction of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") or Connected Persons  

Hargreaves Lansdown plc (the "Company") has received notification today from Lee Gardhouse, a PDMR, that on 17^th June 2014, he exercised the following share options:

Name of Scheme	No of shares exercised	Exercise Price	Grant Date
Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme	300,000	606.3p	18th March 2011

The market value at the date of exercise was £12.65.  No new shares have been issued as a result of the exercise of the share options.

Following the exercise of the share options, Mr Gardhouse sold a total of 217,207 ordinary shares of 0.4 pence in the Company ("ordinary shares") at a price of £12.65 per share.  This sale was made to meet the purchase costs of the shares and the taxation arising on exercise of the share options.  The number of ordinary shares sold represented 0.046% of the ordinary shares in issue.  

As a result of the transaction Mr Gardhouse retains an additional 82,793 ordinary shares, thus increasing his (including his connected persons) shareholding in Hargreaves Lansdown from 749,454 shares to a total 832,247 shares (0.18% of the ordinary shares in issue).

Following this exercise, Mr Gardhouse retains 134,238 unexercised share options in a number of schemes.

Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited is the registered shareholder as nominee for the above PDMR.

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

Enquiries:

Judy Matthews

Company Secretary

Hargreaves Lansdown

[phone]

 

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