Exercise of share options and total voting rights

RNS Number : 6385H

First Property Group PLC

07 April 2022

 

Date:	7 April 2022
On behalf of:	First Property Group plc ("First Property", "the Company" or the "Group")
Embargoed:	Immediate Release

First Property Group plc

Exercise of share options and total voting rights

First Property Group plc (AIM: FPO), the award winning property fund manager and investor with operations in the UK and Central Europe, was notified on 5 April 2022 that Jeremy Barkes, a director of First Property Asset Management Ltd and person discharging managerial responsibility, has exercised options over 500,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

These options were granted pursuant to the First Property Group share option scheme at an exercise price of 11.50 pence per Ordinary Share. In order to meet tax obligations a total of 180,000 were sold at 34.5 pence per Ordinary Share. Following this exercise, the total number of shares held by Jeremy Barkes will be 1,583,606.  

Following these sales the total number of outstanding share options over Ordinary Shares has reduced to 2,110,000.

In order to exercise these options, 500,000 Ordinary Shares were sold by the Company from Treasury, resulting in the number of Ordinary Shares in Treasury reducing to 5,718,783.

Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of the new Ordinary Shares ("Admission"). The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares in issue and Admission is expected to occur on 11 April 2022. Following Admission the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights will increase to 110,882,332. Under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency rules the figure of 110,882,332 Ordinary Shares should be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest, or a change in their interest, in the Ordinary Share capital of First Property Group plc.

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For further information please contact:

First Property Group plc	Tel: [phone]
Ben Habib (Chief Executive Officer) Laura James (Group Finance Director) Jeremy Barkes (Director, Business Development)	www.fprop.com [e-mail]
Arden Partners (NOMAD & Broker)	Tel: + 44 (20) 7614 5900
John Llewellyn-Lloyd Antonio Bossi
Newgate Communications (PR)	Tel: [phone]
Robin Tozer / Richard Bicknell / Max Richardson	[e-mail]

Notes to Investors and Editors :

First Property Group plc is an award-winning property fund manager and investor with operations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Around one third of the shares in the Company are owned by management and their families.

Its focus is on higher yielding commercial property with sustainable cash flows. The company is flexible and takes an active approach to asset management. Its earnings are derived from:

• Fund management - via its FCA regulated and AIFMD approved subsidiary, First Property Asset Management Ltd (FPAM), which earns fees from investing for third parties in property. FPAM currently manages thirteen funds which are invested across the United Kingdom, Poland and Romania.
   
• Group Properties - principal investments by the Group, to earn a return on its own capital, usually in partnership with third parties. Investments include seven directly held properties in Poland and Romania, and interests in eleven of the thirteen funds managed by FPAM.

Listed on AIM the Company has offices in London, Warsaw and Bucharest. Further information about the Company and its products can be found at:  www.fprop.com .

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	Jeremy Barkes
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Director, First Property Asset Management Ltd
b)	Is this an initial notification or an amendment to a prior notification?	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	First Property Group plc
b)	LEI	213800O4C71RSRQVHH77
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 1p GB0004109889
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options and Disposal of Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares Price(s) Volume(s) 11.5p 500,000 Disposal of Ordinary Shares Price(s) Volume(s) 34.5p 180,000
d)	Aggregated information (if any) - Aggregated volume - Price	Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares Aggregate volume: 500,000 Aggregate Price: 11.5p Disposal of Ordinary Shares Aggregate volume: 180,000 Aggregate Price: 34.5p
e)	Date of transaction	05 April 2022
f)	Place of the transaction	AIMX

 

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