Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8317E

Kainos Group plc

09 July 2021

 

9 July 2021

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company")  

Director / PDMR shareholdings

The Company was notified on 8 July 2021 that Malachy Smith, Divisional Director, Workday Implementation Services, exercised his 2018 PSP options over 12,814 ordinary shares of £0.005 in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an exercise price of £0.005 per Ordinary Share.

Mr Smith retained the Ordinary Shares on exercise.

Following this notification, Mr Smith and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 320,939 Ordinary Shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 0.261% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 (A19 Market Abuse Regulation)

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Malachy Smith
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Divisional Director, Workday Implementation Services
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Kainos Group plc
b.	LEI	213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
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 £0.005 each KNOS
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of PSP options and retention of shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price(s) Volume(s) £0.005 12,814
d.	Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	08-07-21
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

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For further information, please contact:

Kainos  via FTI Consulting LLP

Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer

Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc   [phone]

Patrick Robb / Ben Griffiths

Canaccord Genuity   [phone]

Simon Bridges/ Emma Gabriel

FTI Consulting LLP  [phone]

Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

About Kainos

Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered provider, operating in two specialist divisions, Digital Services and its Workday Practice. 

The Group's Digital Services include full lifecycle development and support of customised Digital Services for public sector, healthcare and commercial customers. These transformative solutions encompass a range of services from experience to design to Artificial Intelligence and Cloud to deliver truly intelligent solutions that are secure, accessible and cost-effective.

The Group's Workday Practice Kainos is one of Workday's most respected partners.  As a full-service partner, we are experienced in complex deployment and integrations, and the leader in Workday test automation.  We're trusted by our customers to launch, test, expand and safeguard their Workday systems.

Kainos has over 2,000 people across 12 offices in Europe and North America.

Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS). For further information, please visit  www.kainos.com .

 

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