Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5234S
Microgen PLC
21 December 2016
 

   21 December 2016

 

MICROGEN plc (the "Company")

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding / Total Voting Rights

 

Microgen plc (LSE: MCGN), a leading provider of business critical software and services, provides notification that on 21 December 2016, following the exercise of options under the Microgen Plc Performance Share Plan 2006 ("PSP"), 196,010 new ordinary shares of 6 3/7 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have been issued. The issued Ordinary Shares were admitted to the Official List of the UKLA and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 25 November 2016.

 

Of the total number referred to above, Tom Crawford (Chief Executive Officer, Aptitude Software) exercised options over 180,000 Ordinary Shares on 21 December 2016 with an exercise price per Ordinary Share of £0.05. The options had an expiry date of 18 November 2023.

 

Following the exercise of these options Tom Crawford's overall shareholding in the Company has increased as set out below:

 

Number of Ordinary Shares held prior to transactions

Percentage of the issued share capital of the Company held prior to transactions

Number of Ordinary Shares held after transactions

Percentage of the issued share capital of the Company held after transactions

129,551

0.219%

309,551

0.522%

 

In accordance with DTR 5.6.1, the Company also announces that, following the transactions referred to above, as at today's date, its issued share capital comprises 59,297,030 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. The voting rights of all of the Ordinary Shares are identical. Shareholders may use this figure as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Ordinary Shares in Microgen under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority.

 

The notification below, made pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on Market Abuse, provides further information about these transactions.

 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

(a)

Name

Tom Crawford

 

2

Reason for the notification

 

(a)

Position/Status

PDMR - (Chief Executive Officer, Aptitude Software)

 

(b)

Initial notification / Amendment

Initial notification

 

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

(a)

Name

Microgen Plc

 

(b)

LEI

2138009VHA1WI2VKMA28

 

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

 

Identification Code

 

Ordinary Shares of 6 3/7 pence each

 

 

ISIN: GB00BVVHWX30

(b)

Nature of the transaction

 

Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares

 

(c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Exercise Price per Ordinary Share

Number of Ordinary Shares over which Options Exercised

£0.05

180,000

(d)

Aggregated Information

- Aggregated Volume

- Price

n/a

(e)

Date of the Transaction

21 December 2016

 

(f)

Place of the Transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification:

Mark Heather, Company Secretary, Microgen Plc

 

 

Contacts

Mark Heather, Company Secretary                                     020-7496-8100

 

         


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