Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3491T

Knights Group Holdings PLC

19 March 2019

 

Knights Group Holdings plc

("Knights" or the "Company")

Notification of Transactions of Directors /

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")

Knights announces that it was notified on 18 March 2019 that following the payment of the dividend payment of 0.6p per share, which was declared in the half year results on 15 January 2019 and paid on 15 March 2019, the SIP trustee has re-invested the dividend by purchasing 1,129 ordinary shares of 0.2 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 290 pence per share on behalf of participating employees.

Details of the Ordinary Shares purchased by the SIP trustee and awarded to PDMRs, together with their resulting interests, are set out in the table below:

Name/Position	Total New Shares	Total resulting interest in Ordinary Shares
Kate Lewis,	5	2801
Lisa Bridgwood	5	2801
Nigel Johnson	5	2801
Philip Marsh	5	2801
James Sheridan	5	623,491
Yvonne Sidwell	5	2801
Mark Anton-Smith	5	2801
Julia Stokes	3	1557
Mark Whitehouse	5	2801
Sally Wightman	5	2801
Andrew Pilkington	5	2801

These notifications are made under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") relating to certain transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR") and persons closely associated with them ("PCA") in the shares of the Company.

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Enquiries

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

Notes to Editors

Knights is a fast-growing, regional legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK top 100 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 of the 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. The Company's main focus is on the UK's secondary regional markets, offering 'big city' quality expertise from a regional cost base. Currently, Knights operates from eight offices located in Cheltenham, Chester, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Oxford, Stoke and Wilmslow.

 

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