Option exercise and increase in share capital

RNS Number : 2840Q

RWS Holdings PLC

26 October 2021

 

For immediate release                                                                                                                                26 October 2021

 RWS Holdings plc

Option exercise and increase in share capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), the world's leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property support services, announces that 22,565 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") were issued on 25 October 2021 in order to satisfy the exercise of options by a number of employees under the SDL plc 2018 and 2019 Sharesave Schemes (which were rolled over into an RWS scheme at the time of RWS's acquisition of SDL plc in November 2020).  Of these shares 21,969 had an exercise price of 258.04 pence per share and 596 had an exercise price of 334.80 pence per share.  Admission is expected to take place at 8.00am on 1 November 2021.

Following this exercise, the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,418,738 RWS Shares. RWS has no RWS Shares held in treasury. The above figure includes 55,896 RWS Shares that are held by the RWS Holdings plc Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes.  Therefore shareholders may use the figure of 389,362,842 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, RWS under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com .

RWS Holdings plc Andrew Brode, Chairman Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer

01753 480200

MHP (Financial PR advisor) Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge

[e-mail]                                                              020 3128 8100

Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker) Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank/Will Baunton Berenberg (Joint Broker) Ben Wright/Toby Flaux/ Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff

020 7260 1000 020 3207 7800

About RWS

RWS Holdings plc is the world's leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally, by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world, by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe's top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and approximately half of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government, and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit:   www.rws.com .

 

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