Director/PDMR Shareholding

Robert Walters PLC
16 May 2006


Robert Walters plc ('Robert Walters' or 'the Company')

Director Shareholding

On 15 May 2006, as detailed below Directors of the Company (i) exercised Awards
under the Robert Walters long term incentive plan ('LTIP') over shares held in
the Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust and (ii) sold 948,510 ordinary shares
of 20 pence each at a price of 246p per share:

In each case the proceeds of sale will be used solely to satisfy the income tax
liabilities and dealing costs arising from the exercise of the Awards.

Director            Number of   Exercise     Number of   Awards exercised as 
                       Awards      price   shares sold   a % of issued share
                    exercised                                        capital

Robert Walters        935,066      £0.00       384,531                  1.10
Giles Daubeney        772,030      £0.00       317,485                  0.91
Ian Nash              599,401      £0.00       246,494                  0.71

Following these transactions, these Directors holdings in the Company are shown
below:

Director            Number of   % of issued share        Share        LTIP
                  Shares held             capital      options      Awards

Robert Walters      3,186,732                3.75    3,363,250     991,334
Giles Daubeney      1,521,959                1.79    1,617,250     703,931
Ian Nash              553,472                0.65    1,000,000     647,845

This announcement is made in accordance with DR 3.1.4 R(1)(a) and DR 3.1.4 R(1)
(b).


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