Acquisition of Coffin Mew LLP

RNS Number : 8968R

Knights Group Holdings PLC

08 July 2022

 

Knights Group Holdings plc

("Knights", the "Company" or the "Group")

Acquisition of Coffin Mew LLP

Knights is pleased to confirm that the acquisition of Coffin Mew LLP ("Coffin Mew") has now completed, in line with the timeframe announced in the acquisition announcement of 19 May 2022. Accordingly a total of 1,152,078 new ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each have been issued to the vendors of Coffin Mew to satisfy the share-based consideration on the acquisition.

Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of these 1,152,078 shares which is expected to occur on 12 July 2022. Following admission, Knights will have 85,813,467 ordinary shares in issue with each ordinary share carrying the right to one vote . The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 85,813,467 . This figure 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 in their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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Enquiries 

Knights
David Beech, CEO	via MHP Communications
Numis (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank	[phone]
MHP Communications (Media enquiries)
Andrew Jaques, Katie Hunt, Eleni Menikou	[phone] [e-mail]

Notes to Editors

Knights is a fast-growing, legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK's top 50 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. It is focussed on key UK markets outside London and currently operates from 22 offices located in Birmingham, Brighton, Cheltenham, Chester, Crawley, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Maidstone, Manchester, Newbury, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke, Teesside, Weybridge, Wilmslow and York.

 

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