Director/PDMR Shareholding
Amlin PLC
28 November 2005
PRESS RELEASE
To be released at 7am
28 November 2005
Amlin plc (the 'Company')
Rights Issue - Director and PDMR resultant shareholdings
Following the Rights Issue and in accordance with section 324 of the Companies
Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule 3.1.2R, the Company was duly notified on 25
November 2005 by each of the Directors below that on completion of the Rights
Issue he was interested in Ordinary Shares of 25p in the Company as stated in
the table below.
Name New Ordinary Resultant total Resultant total
Shares subscribed holding holding
for in Rights
Issue
(Number of shares) (%)
N J C Buchanan 2,004 12,600 0.002
B D Carpenter (and spouse) 46,428 724,352 0.137
R A Hextall 9,381 146,362 0.028
A W Holt (and spouse) 233,566 2,756,084 0.521
R W Mylvaganam 1,076 4,460 0.001
C E L Philipps 17,553 273,041 0.052
Lord Stewartby 3,946 50,000 0.009
R J Taylor 4,884 20,235 0.004
The resultant total holding stated above for Mr Buchanan includes 4,296 Existing
Ordinary Shares purchased by him in the market on 23 November 2005 at a price of
230.75p per share, increasing his total holding from the 6,300 shares that he
held prior to the Rights Issue to the number stated above.
All Directors' sales of Nil Paid Rights during the Rights Issue period were
previously announced on 10 November 2005, other than a sale of 1,564 Nil Paid
Rights made on behalf of Mr Philipps by his ISA manager on 21 November 2005 at a
price of 34.76p per share. Such sale was to raise sufficient funds to take up
the balance of his rights entitlement in his ISA of 307 New Ordinary Shares,
which are included in his total subscription stated above.
Following the Rights Issue and in accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.2R, the
Company was also duly notified on 25 November 2005 by each of the Senior
Managers below that on completion of the Rights Issue he was interested in
Ordinary Shares of 25p in the Company as stated in the table below.
Name New Ordinary Shares Resulting total Resultant total
subscribed for in holding holding
Rights Issue
(Number of shares) (%)
S C W Beale 19,470 283,554 0.054
J le T Illingworth 12,110 188,951 0.036
All such Senior Managers' sales of Nil Paid Rights during the Rights Issue
period were previously announced on 10 November 2005.
In addition to the above shareholdings, the Group's Employee Share Ownership
Trust ('ESOT') subscribed for its full entitlement under the Rights Issue of
540,092 New Ordinary Shares, giving a resultant total holding of 2,237,526
shares (0.423 per cent of the shares now in issue). For the purposes of the
Companies Act 1985, the executive Directors of the Company (Messrs B D
Carpenter, R A Hextall, A W Holt and C E L Philipps), as potential beneficiaries
of the ESOT, are deemed to have a technical interest in all of the shares held
by the ESOT.
Definitions used in the Prospectus dated 2 November 2005 shall have the same
meanings when used in this announcement, unless the context requires otherwise.
28 November 2005
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Enquiries:
Charles Pender, Amlin plc 020 7746 1000
David Haggie, Haggie Financial 020 7417 8989
Peter Rigby, Haggie Financial 020 7417 8989
Hoare Govett Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by
the Financial Services Authority, is acting as sponsor, underwriter, broker and
joint financial adviser to Amlin in connection with the Rights Issue and the
listing of the New Ordinary Shares on the Official List and their admission to
trading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities and will not
be responsible to anyone other than Amlin for providing the protections afforded
to clients of Hoare Govett Limited or for providing advice in relation to the
Rights Issue, proposed listing or admission to trading or the contents of this
announcement or any other matters referred to in this announcement.
Lexicon Partners Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United
Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting as joint financial
adviser to Amlin in connection with the Rights Issue and the listing of the New
Ordinary Shares on the Official List and their admission to trading on the
London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities and will not be responsible
to anyone other than Amlin for providing the protections afforded to customers
of Lexicon Partners Limited or for providing advice in relation to the Rights
Issue, proposed listing or admission to trading or the contents of this
announcement or any other matters referred to in this announcement.
The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in certain
jurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in such
jurisdictions into which this announcement is released, published or distributed
should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions.
No offer, invitation or inducement to acquire shares or other securities in
Amlin is being made by or in connection with this announcement. Any offer,
invitation or inducement to acquire shares in Amlin will be made solely by means
of the prospectus, published on 2 November 2005, and any decision to keep, buy
or sell shares in Amlin should be made solely on the basis of the information
contained in such document.
This announcement is not for distribution or transmission, directly or
indirectly, in or into the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand
or the Republic of South Africa and does not constitute, or form part of, an
offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy any
securities ('Securities'), nor the solicitation of any vote or approval in any
jurisdiction, nor shall there be any sale, issue or transfer of the Securities
referred to in this announcement in any jurisdiction in contravention of
applicable law.
The Securities have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act') and may not be offered or sold in
the United States unless registered under the Securities Act or an exemption
from such registration is available. No public offering of Securities of Amlin
is being made in the United States.
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