Intermediate Capital Group plc : Notification o...

Intermediate Capital Group plc (the "Company")

8 March 2013

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS/TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

EXERCISE OF SHARE OPTIONS BY DIRECTORS

In accordance with the UK Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4 Intermediate Capital Group PLC wishes to announce that it has been notified that the following option exercises have taken place pursuant to the rules of the Intermediate Capital group PLC 2001 Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme:

Director: Philip Keller

Date of exercise: 7 March 2013

Number of ordinary shares in the Company acquired on exercise 282,472

Number of ordinary shares sold to cover the option price, liabilities for income tax and national insurance contributions 223,337

Number of shares retained 59,135

This option exercise has been satisfied by the issue of new ordinary shares in the Company.

As a consequence of the above transaction, Philip Keller and his connected persons have an interest in 234,776 ordinary shares in the Company.

Director: Christophe Evain

Date of exercise: 8 March 2013

Number of ordinary shares in the Company acquired on exercise 359,238

Number of ordinary shares sold to cover the option price, liabilities for income tax and national insurance contributions 286,332

Number of shares retained 72,906

This option exercise has been satisfied by the issue of new ordinary shares in the Company.

As a consequence of the above transaction, Christophe Evain and his connected persons have an interest in 671,383 ordinary shares in the Company.

TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Intermediate Capital Group plc (the "Company") has made applications for the admission of 700,739 Ordinary Shares of 20 pence each in the Company to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange, in connection with the exercise of options by a number of employees of the Company under the Company's 2001 Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme and the 2001 Approved Executive Share Option Scheme.  Admission of the shares to the Official List is expected to occur in respect of 19,029 Ordinary Shares on 13 March and 681,710 Ordinary Shares on 14 March 2013.

The shares will be issued fully paid and will rank pari passu in all other respects with the existing issued Ordinary Shares of the Company.

In addition, the Company wishes to notify the market (as per DTR 5.6.1R) that, as a result of the above allotment of shares, the issued share capital of the Company consists of 401,952,756 Ordinary Shares.  Each Ordinary Share carries the right to one vote in relation to all circumstances at general meetings of the Company.  The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.

The above figure 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 FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Investor Enquiries:
Ian Stanlake
Investor Relations, ICG plc
[phone]

Media Enquiries:
Neil Bennett / Tom Eckersley / Andrea Coleman
Maitland
[phone]

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