Option exercise and increase in share capital

RNS Number : 0155L

RWS Holdings PLC

11 May 2022

 

                                                                                   11 May 2022

RWS Holdings plc

Option exercise and increase in share capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), a world leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services, announces that 4,941 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") were issued today in order to satisfy the exercise of options under the RWS 2019 Sharesave Scheme. These options had an exercise price of 413 pence per share. Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 am on 18 May 2022.

Following this exercise (and in fulfilment of the disclosure obligations under Rule 2.9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers), the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,437,644 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 389,381,748 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 and as the number of voting rights in RWS.  The International Securities Identification Number of RWS Shares is GB00BVFCZV34.

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

RWS Holdings plc  01753 480200

Andrew Brode, Chairman

Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer

Rod Day, Interim Chief Financial Officer

MHP (Financial PR advisor)  [e-mail]

Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge  0203 128 8100

Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker)  0207 260 1000

Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank / Will Baunton

Berenberg (Joint Broker)  0203 207 7800

Ben Wright / Toby Flaux / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff 

 

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