9 November 2021
WANdisco plc
("WANdisco" or the "Company")
Director Shareholding
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the LiveData company , announces that David Richards, Chairman and CEO of the Company, entered into a transfer and repurchase agreement with Equities First Holdings ("EFH") on 5 November 2021, a securities based capital provider of finance for private and institutional investors (the "Agreement"), in respect of 350,000 ordinary shares (the "Transferred Shares") of his total shareholding of 2,157,264 ordinary shares in the Company, as security for a loan.
Under the terms of the Agreement, Mr. Richards has transferred the Transferred Shares to EFH for consideration to be determined by the average of the last sale price of the ordinary shares as reported on Bloomberg over the three trading days upon and following receipt of the Transferred Shares by EFH.
Mr. Richards is required to redeem the Transferred Shares at maturity when the loan is repaid at the end of the three year term. Under the terms of the Agreement, EFH is prohibited from short selling or voting the shares during the term of the loan.
For further information, please contact:
WANdisco plc |
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David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman |
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Erik Miller, Chief Financial Officer |
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Daud Khan, VP Corporate Development |
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FTI Consulting |
+44 (0)20 3727 1137 |
Matt Dixon / Chris Birt / Kwaku Aning |
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Stifel (Nomad and Joint Broker) |
+44 (0)20 7710 7600 |
Fred Walsh / Richard Short |
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Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker) Erik Anderson / Alina Vaskina |
+44 (0)20 7886 2500 |
About WANdisco
WANdisco is the LiveData company. WANdisco solutions enable enterprises to create an environment where data is always available, accurate and protected, creating a strong backbone for their IT infrastructure and a bedrock for running consistent, accurate machine learning applications. With zero downtime and zero data loss, WANdisco's products keep geographically dispersed data at any scale consistent between on-premises and cloud environments allowing businesses to operate seamlessly in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. WANdisco has over a hundred customers and significant go-to-market partnerships with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, and others as well as OEM relationships with IBM and Alibaba. For more information on WANdisco, visit http://www.wandisco.com . www.wandisco.com