Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3388T
Hargreaves Lansdown PLC
18 November 2013
 



Hargreaves Lansdown plc

 

("Hargreaves Lansdown plc" or "the Company")  

  

DIRECTOR / PDMR Shareholding  

  

18th November 2013

 

Notification of Transaction of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") or Connected Persons  

 

Hargreaves Lansdown plc (the "Company") has received notification today from Ian Gorham, a Director, that on 18th November 2013, he exercised the following share options:

 

Name of Scheme

No of shares exercised

Exercise Price

Grant Date

Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme

800,000

458.23p

8th October 2010

 

The market value at the date of exercise was £11.79.  No new shares have been issued as a result of the exercise of the share options.

 

Following the exercise of the share options, Mr Gorham sold a total of 715,000 ordinary shares of 0.4 pence in the Company ("ordinary shares") at a price of £11.79 per share.  Part of this sale was made to meet taxation arising on exercise of the share options and partly to meet the purchase costs of increasing his shareholding in the company.  The number of ordinary shares sold represented 0.151% of the ordinary shares in issue.  

 

As a result of the transaction Mr Gorham retains an additional 85,000 ordinary shares, thus increasing his (including his connected persons) shareholding in Hargreaves Lansdown from 357,628 shares to a total 442,628 shares (0.093% of the ordinary shares in issue).

 

Following this exercise, Mr Gorham retains 64,109 unexercised share options in a number of schemes.

 

Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited is the registered shareholder as nominee for the above PDMR.

 

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

 

Enquiries:

 

Judy Matthews

Company Secretary

Hargreaves Lansdown

+44 (0) 117 988 9880


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