Additional Listing of Shares and PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6150K

Softcat PLC

11 April 2018

 

Softcat plc

Additional Listing of Shares, PDMR Shareholding & Total Voting Rights

The Company announces that on 6 April 2018 Martin Hellawell, Non-Executive Chairman, exercised the nil-cost option over 44,552 shares awarded under the Softcat plc Annual and Deferred Bonus Plan.

An application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange for an additional listing of 44,552 ordinary shares of £0.0005 each to trade on the London Stock Exchange. It is expected that the shares will be admitted to trade on the Official List on 12 April 2018. The shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of the Company.

Mr Hellawell also holds 1,204 free shares which were awarded under the Company's Share Incentive Plan on 11 December 2015 which are no longer subject to a holding period.

Following these transactions, Mr Hellawell and the persons closely associated with him (namely Mandy Hellawell and The Highgate Family Trust) hold in aggregate 13,030,155 ordinary shares, which represent approximately 6.6% of the Company's issued share capital.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company will have 197,950,695 ordinary shares in issue. The Company has no Ordinary Shares held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company following Admission will therefore be 197,950,695.

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ("PCA")
a)	Name	Martin Hellawell
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position / status	Non-Executive Chairman
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial Notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name		Softcat plc
b)	LEI		213800N42YZLR9GLVC42
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 Identification Code	Ordinary Shares of £0.0005 each ISIN: GB00BYZDVK82
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of nil cost option over Ordinary Shares of £0.0005 each under the Softcat plc Annual and Deferred Bonus Plan
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 0.00 44,552
d)	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	2018-04-06
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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