Incentive Plan Share Issue, Directors' Dealings

RNS Number : 8156B

Regency Mines PLC

06 April 2017

 

Regency Mines Plc

("Regency Mines" or the "Company")

Issue of Shares under Share Incentive Plan and Directors' Dealings

6 April 2017

Regency Mines Plc, the natural resource investment and development company, announces that on 5 April 2017 the Board of Directors approved the issuance of 5,119,658 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") for the 2016/17 tax year as agreed in the Trustees meeting held on 3 April 2017.  

Under the terms of the SIP, once employees have satisfactorily completed their probationary period, they may sign up to both the Free Share and Partnership Share Agreement, however, they may only begin active participation in the Partnership Agreement at the beginning of the tax year.

Free Share Agreement - Free Share Award

Under the Free Share Agreement, employees may be awarded up to £3,600 worth of Ordinary Shares in the Company in any one tax year. Ordinary Shares to the value of £3,600 per existing employee have been awarded in respect of the 2016/17 tax year, representing a total of 1,371,428 Ordinary Shares, with reference to the mid-market closing price of 1.05p as of 31 March 2017.

Partnership Share Agreement - Share Award

In addition, employees may purchase up to £1,800 (or up to a maximum of 10% of their salary, whichever is the lower) worth of Shares (the "Partnership Shares") in any one tax year. The Company will match these shares on a 2:1 basis (the "Matching Shares"). The Partnership and the Matching Shares are awarded with reference to the lower of the mid-market closing price at the beginning or at the end of the accumulation period.

Therefore, 1,249,410 Partnership Shares and 2,498,820 Matching Shares (being 3,748,230 Shares in aggregate) have been awarded with reference to the mid-market closing price of 0.425p as of 1 April 2016, which is the beginning of the accumulation period for the 2016/17 tax year.

The Directors have participated in both the Free Share award and the Partnership Share award and the above numbers include such participation, further details of which are set out below.

All shares awarded under the Free Share Agreement and the Partnership Share Agreement will be held by the SIP Trustees and such shares cannot be released to participants until five years after the date of the award, except in specific circumstances.

Directors' Participation

In respect of the 2016/2017 tax year, each Director has been awarded 342,857 Ordinary Shares under the Free Share Agreement and three Directors were eligible to participate in the Partnership and Matching Share schemes. These shares awarded to Directors have been included in the table below which sets out the total shareholding and interests of the Directors in the enlarged share capital of the Company:

Directors	New Ordinary Shares	Ordinary Shares Post Issuance		Total Shares	% of Enlarged Issued Share Capital	Warrants	Options
		Direct	Indirect*
Andrew R M Bell	1,613,444	-	9,407,425	9,407,425	1.80%	-	13,360,000
Edward Sr Bugnosen	1,549,913	10,000	4,184,623	4,194,623	0.80%	-	560,000
Scott Kaintz	1,613,444	-	4,322,706	4,322,706	0.83%	-	12,420,000

*Mr A Bell and Mr S Kaintz are each beneficiaries of 4,301,654 shares held on their behalf by the SIP Trustees whilst Mr E Bugnosen is a beneficiary of 4,184,623 shares held on his behalf by the SIP Trustees. In addition, Mr A Bell holds 2,425,907 shares in the account of Alliance Trust Nominees Limited, 377,429 shares in the name of Beaufort Securities Nominees Limited, and 2,302,435 shares in the account of Rock (Nominees) Limited. Mr S Kaintz holds 21,052 shares in the account of HSBC Client Holdings Nominee UK Ltd.

Admission to trading on AIM and Total Voting Rights

Application is being made to AIM for 5,119,658 new Ordinary Shares allotted in relation to the SIP for 2016/17 tax year to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission of the 5,119,658 new Ordinary Shares is expected on or around 12 April 2017.

Following the issue of the 5,119,658 new Ordinary Shares the issued share capital of the Company consists of 522,038,289 ordinary shares of 0.01p each with voting rights. No Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury.

The above figure of 522,038,289 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For Further Information Contact:

Andrew Bell 0207 747 9960                                                       Chairman Regency Mines Plc

Scott Kaintz 0207 747 9960                                                        Executive Director Regency Mines Plc

Roland Cornish/Rosalind Hill Abrahams 0207 628 3396         NOMAD Beaumont Cornish Limited

Jason Robertson 0129 351 7744                                                Broker Dowgate Capital Stockbrokers Ltd.

The following disclosure is made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	1. Andrew R M Bell 2. Edward Sr Bugnosen 3.Scott Kaintz
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	1. Chairman and CEO 2. Executive Director and COO 3. Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Regency Mines Plc
b)	LEI	2138009ECXQQ3EGKVY57
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 0.01p each
	Identification code	ISIN: GB00BYVT4J08
b)	Nature of the transaction	Issue of Shares under Share Incentive Plan
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)		Name Price(s) Volume(s) Andrew R M Bell 1.05p 0.425p 342,857 1,270,587 Edward Sr Bugnosen 1.05p 0.425p 342,857 1,207,056 Scott Kaintz 1.05p 0.425p 342,857 1,270,587
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	5,119,658
	- Price	0.5924 pence
e)	Date of the transaction	5 April 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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