Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6336B

Knights Group Holdings PLC

14 February 2022

 

Knights Group Holdings plc

("Knights", the "Company" or the "Group")

PDMR Notification

On 11 February 2022 each of Kate Lewis (Chief Financial Officer of Knights), Andrew Pilkington (Client Services Director) and Lisa Bridgwood (Company Secretary and General Counsel of Knights) exercised share options at a price of £1.6152 per share granted under a Save As You Earn Scheme governed by Knights Omnibus Plan, which began on 20 December 2018. 

Each of Kate Lewis and Andrew Pilkington subsequently sold the shares which were subject to the exercise of the award.

The total number of shares in issue following the exercise of the option referred to above is 84,505,230 ordinary shares of £0.002 each.

The following notifications are made under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") relating to certain transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR") in the shares of the Company.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and their closely associated persons

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Kate Lewis
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	CFO and PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Knights Group Holdings plc
b)	LEI	213800URB59EOGJKT919
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	Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00BFYF6298
b)	Nature of the transaction	1.  Exercise of Save As You Earn Option 2.  Sale of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			1.  £1.6152 2.  £3.6336	11,144 11,144
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	N/A
	- Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	11 February 2022
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Andrew Pilkington
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Client Services Director and PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Knights Group Holdings plc
b)	LEI	213800URB59EOGJKT919
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	Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00BFYF6298
b)	Nature of the transaction	1.  Exercise of Save As You Earn Option 2.  Sale of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			1.  £1.6152 2.  £3.6336	6,686 6,686
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	N/A
	- Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	11 February 2022
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Lisa Bridgwood
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Company Secretary, General Counsel and PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Knights Group Holdings plc
b)	LEI	213800URB59EOGJKT919
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	Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00BFYF6298
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Save As You Earn Option
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			£1.6152	11,144
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	N/A
	- Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	11 February 2022
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

Ends

Enquiries 

Knights
David Beech, CEO	Via MHP Communications
Numis (Nomad and Broker)
Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank	020 7260 1000
MHP Communications (Media enquiries)
Andrew Jaques, Katie Hunt, Rachel Mann	020 3128 8100 07585 301464 [e-mail]

Notes to Editors

Knights is a fast-growing, legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK's top 50 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. It is focussed on key UK markets outside London and currently operates from 17 offices located in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Chester, Crawley, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Maidstone, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Stoke, Teesside, Weybridge, Wilmslow and York.

 

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