Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1471S

Sound Energy PLC

16 December 2016

Sound Energy plc

("Sound Energy" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Sound Energy, the Mediterranean / European focused upstream gas company, announces that it has been notified that Greenberry plc ("Greenberry") has today purchased 774,387 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 68.15 pence per Ordinary Share.

Marco Fumagalli, a director of the Company, is Managing Partner of, and a 25% shareholder in, Continental Investment Partners SA ("Continental"). Greenberry is an affiliate of Continental by virtue of its common ownership.

As a result of this purchase of Ordinary Shares, Continental and its affiliates are interested in a total of 66,491,549 Ordinary Shares, representing 10.01% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Greenberry plc
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Notification concens a PCA, being a legal person the managerial responsibilities of which are discharged by Marco Fumagalli, a PDMR (Non-Executive Director of Sound Energy plc).
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Sound Energy plc
b)	LEI	-
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, type of instrument	Ordinary shares of 1p each
	Identification code	GB00B90XFF12
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volumes(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		£0.6815	774,387
d)	Aggregated information	N/A (single transaction)
	Aggregated volume
	Price
e)	Date of the transaction	16 December 2016
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON)