Robert Walters plc
Notification of Interests
The Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust ('EBT') has purchased a total of 253,833 ordinary shares on 1 April 2010 at a price of 220 pence per share. The shares held in the EBT are intended to be used to satisfy future awards made under the Company's Performance Share Plan, Executive Share Option Scheme and Sharesave Scheme.
The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of Robert Walters plc and its subsidiaries and is registered in the name of Halifax EES Trustees International Ltd.
The Executive Directors of Robert Walters plc are included as potential beneficiaries under the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares and the dealings thereof.
Following these transactions, the EBT holds 7,923,918 ordinary shares on which dividends are waived and are treated as non dilutive. This takes the EBT through the 10% threshold to a resultant holding of 10.32%.