Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7652V
Polar Capital Holdings PLC
01 February 2017
 

 

1 February 2017

 

Polar Capital Holdings plc ("Polar Capital" or the "Company")

 

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

 

The Company was notified on 31 January 2017 that Mr Brian Ashford-Russell, a Non-executive Director of Polar Capital, sold 200,000 ordinary shares of 2.5p each ("Ordinary Shares") from his personal holding at 374.75p per share. Following this transaction Mr Ashford-Russell is interested in a total of 6,075,000 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 6.65% of the Company's issued share capital.

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

Brian Ashford-Russell

 

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

Non-executive Director

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

 

Initial Notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

Polar Capital Holdings plc

b)

 

LEI

 

 

N/A

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 of 2.5p each



Identification code

GB00B1GCLT25



b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)







Price(s)

Volume(s)




374.75 pence

200,000






 

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

Single transaction as in 4 c) above



- Aggregated volume

200,000



- Price

374.75 pence

 

Total Amount: £749,500



e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

31-01-2017

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

 

London Stock Exchange, AIM, XLON

 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Polar Capital

John Mansell / Neil Taylor

+44 (0)207 227 2700

 

Canaccord Genuity (Nomad and Joint Broker)

Simon Bridges / Andrew Buchanan / Kit Stephenson

+44 (0)207 523 8000


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