Total Voting Rights and Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8817Z

Knights Group Holdings PLC

05 September 2018

 

5 September 2018

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Knights Group Holdings plc

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

Issue of shares under the Share Incentive Plan, Total Voting Rights and Notification of transactions by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMRs)

Knights (AIM: KGH), a regional legal and professional services business, announces that it has allotted 657,732 new ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP"). The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement, under which employees are able to acquire Ordinary Shares using deductions from salary ("Partnership Shares"), and receive allocations of matching free Ordinary Shares ("Matching Shares"). The number of Partnership Shares acquired by employees was calculated using a price of 192.99 pence each (being the closing mid-market share price on 4 September 2018).

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the 657,732 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will become effective and trading will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 11 September 2018.

After Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be 72,037,043 and the total number of voting rights will therefore be 72,037,043. This 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Details of the number of Partnership Shares and Matching Shares acquired by the SIP trustee on behalf of executive directors, certain other PDMRs and/or employee insiders is set out in the table below:

PDMR	Number of Partnership Shares	Number of Matching Shares
Hayley Pointon	932	1864
James Sheridan	932	1864
Julia Stokes	518	1036
Kate Lewis	932	1864
Lisa Bridgwood	932	1864
Mark Anton-Smith	932	1864
Mark Whitehouse	932	1864
Nigel Johnson	932	1864
Philip Marsh	932	1864
Sally Wightman	932	1864
Yvonne Sidwell	932	1864
Andrew Pilkington	932	1864
TOTAL	10,770	21,540

Enquiries

Knights Group Holdings plc	Via MHP Communications
David Beech, CEO
Kate Lewis, Chief Financial Officer
Lisa Bridgwood, Company Secretary
Numis Securities (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Stuart Skinner	[e-mail]
Kevin Cruickshank
Michael Burke
MHP Communications (Media enquiries)	Tel: [phone]
Andrew Jaques	[e-mail]
James White
Kelsey Traynor

 

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