Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2111Q

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

17 February 2023

 

17 February 2023

London Stock Exchange Group PLC ("LSEG")

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SECURITIES

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022 :

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	16 February 2023
Number of voting ordinary shares purchased:	3,110
Highest price paid per share:	7,808.00p
Lowest price paid per share:	7,670.00p
Volume weighted average price per share:	7,710.79p

LSEG intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transactions, LSEG holds 5,374,190 of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in treasury and has 501,745,457 voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue (excluding treasury shares). LSEG also has 51,124,377 limited-voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue, which carry one-tenth of a vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 506,857,895. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as such legislation forms part of retained EU law as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by the Morgan Stanley on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is included below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

For further information, please contact:

London Stock Exchange Group plc
Lucie Holloway, Rhiannon Davies (Media)	[phone] [e-mail]
Peregrine Riviere (Investors)

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:  3,110 (ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34 ) 

Date of purchases:  16 February 2023

Investment firm:  Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price	Aggregated volume	Lowest price per share	Highest price per share
XLON	7,703.49p	1,295	7,670.00p	7,778.00p
TRQX	7,723.10p	767	7,670.00p	7,808.00p
BATF	7,710.79p	1,048	7,710.79p	7,710.79p

Detailed Information¹:

Transaction Date	Time (GMT)	Volume	Price (GBp)	Trading Venue	Transaction Reference Number
16/02/2023	08:02:21	8	7,748.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUL7Fa
16/02/2023	08:02:21	56	7,748.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUL7GP
16/02/2023	08:02:21	27	7,748.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUL7GV
16/02/2023	08:02:21	110	7,748.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUL7GX
16/02/2023	08:06:03	91	7,760.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mf0loG
16/02/2023	08:08:55	90	7,762.00	XLON	E0DUD3lULRTB
16/02/2023	08:08:55	7	7,762.00	XLON	E0DUD3lULRTI
16/02/2023	08:11:45	94	7,778.00	XLON	E0DUD3lULZDS
16/02/2023	08:21:10	100	7,800.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mf2DAD
16/02/2023	08:21:10	9	7,800.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mf2DAI
16/02/2023	08:34:55	88	7,808.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mf3TKW
16/02/2023	08:34:55	19	7,808.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mf3TKY
16/02/2023	15:58:31	85	7,670.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfagj9
16/02/2023	15:58:31	110	7,670.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfagjB
16/02/2023	15:58:31	150	7,670.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUEcF
16/02/2023	16:02:34	93	7,678.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUKYM
16/02/2023	16:07:16	50	7,680.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUQ97
16/02/2023	16:07:16	133	7,680.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUQ9C
16/02/2023	16:08:05	102	7,676.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUURHn
16/02/2023	16:11:52	82	7,680.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfbz3D
16/02/2023	16:11:52	24	7,680.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfbz4z
16/02/2023	16:15:24	95	7,680.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUaNM
16/02/2023	16:21:59	191	7,686.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUi6i
16/02/2023	16:21:59	89	7,686.00	XLON	E0DUD3lUUi6k
16/02/2023	16:21:59	129	7,686.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfd3V2
16/02/2023	16:21:59	30	7,686.00	TRQX	E0DUD3mfd3V4
16/02/2023	16:37:28	1,048	7,710.79	BATF	-YuudlHNQcq4R1JDzTqkwwA

¹The transaction shown in the last row of the table are purchases made from York Holdings II pursuant to certain arrangements entered into between Morgan Stanley and York Holdings II, as detailed in the announcement of 7 October 2022.

 

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