Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4143N

Kainos Group plc

29 September 2021

 

29 September 2021

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company")

Director / PDMR shareholdings

The Company was notified on 27 September 2021, that:

(i)  Richard McCann, Director, exercised his 2018 SAYE options over 1,070 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr McCann retained the ordinary shares on exercise. Following this notification, Mr McCann and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 4,630,352 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 3.75% of the issued share capital of the Company.

(ii)  Russell Sloan, Divisional Director, exercised his 2018 SAYE options over 1,070 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr Sloan retained the ordinary shares on exercise. Following this notification, Mr Sloan and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 322,307 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 0.26% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Richard McCann
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Director
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Kainos Group plc
b.	LEI	213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
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 £0.005 each KNOS
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of SAYE Options
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £3.36 1,070
d.	Aggregated information ·Aggregated volume ·Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	27-September-2021
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a Trading venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Russell Sloan
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Divisional Director
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Kainos Group plc
b.	LEI	213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
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 £0.005 each KNOS
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of SAYE Options
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £3.36 1,070
d.	Aggregated information ·Aggregated volume ·Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	27-September-2021
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a Trading venue

Kainos Group plc Legal Entity Identifier: 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 

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For further information, please contact:

Kainos                                                                                          via FTI Consulting LLP

Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer

Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc   [phone]

Patrick Robb / Ben Griffiths

Canaccord Genuity   [phone]

Simon Bridges/ Andrew Potts

FTI Consulting LLP  [phone]

Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

About Kainos

Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered IT provider, across two specialist business areas, Digital Services and the Workday Practice.

The Group's Digital Services include full lifecycle development and support of customised Digital Services for public sector, healthcare and commercial customers. These transformative solutions encompass a range of services from experience design to artificial intelligence and cloud to deliver truly intelligent solutions that are secure, accessible and cost-effective.

The Group's Workday Practice is one of Workday's most respected partners. As a full-service partner, we are experienced in complex deployment and integrations, and the leader in Workday test automation.

We're trusted by our customers to launch, test, expand and safeguard their Workday systems. Kainos has over 2,000 people across 12 offices in Europe and North America.

Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).

 

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