Grant of Awards under Group Share Option Plan

RNS Number : 6151J

NAHL Group PLC

28 April 2022

 

28 April 2022

NAHL Group PLC

("NAHL" or the "Group")

Grant of Awards under Group Share Option Plan 

NAHL (AIM: NAH), the leading UK marketing and services business focused on the UK consumer legal market, announces that on 27 April 2022, it awarded 1,106,070 options over new ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") to certain employees under the NAHL Group Share Option Plan.  This included awards to James Saralis and Chris Higham as set out below:

Name	Title	Number of options granted	Exercise price
James Saralis	Chief Executive Officer	261,070	£0.0025
Christopher Higham	Acting Chief Financial Officer (non-board)	85,000	£0.0025

These options have been granted in line with the Group's Remuneration Policy, and are in the form of nominal cost share options exercisable at the nominal value of Ordinary Shares of 0.25p per share ("Restricted Share Awards") and vest after three years, subject to continued employment.  Although no performance related vesting criteria will apply to the Restricted Share Awards, the Remuneration Committee of the Board has discretion to amend the vesting outcome should the amount vesting not reflect the committee's assessment of overall business performance.

Following the grant of these options, James Saralis is now interested in a total of 699,827 share options in the Company and Chris Higham is now interested in a total of 301,999 share options in the Company.  

Following this grant there are a total of 3,010,425 share options granted over unissued Ordinary Shares granted to directors and employees, representing 6.50% of the Company's current ordinary share capital of 46,325,222 Ordinary Shares.

The below notifications made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation provide further detail:

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ("PCA")
a)	Name	Mr James Saralis
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Positio n / status	Chief Executive Officer (Director and PDMR)
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer
a)	Name	NAHL Group plc
b)	LEI	213800FQN7XBX1S6U981
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	Options over ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each
b)	Identification code	GB00BM7S2W63
c)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price Volume £0.0025 261,070
e)	Aggregated information -  Volume - Price	As above
f)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2022
g)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ("PCA")
a)	Name	Mr Christopher Higham
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Positio n / status	Chief Financial Officer (PDMR)
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer
a)	Name	NAHL Group plc
b)	LEI	213800FQN7XBX1S6U981
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	Options over ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each
b)	Identification code	GB00BM7S2W63
c)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price Volume £0.0025 85,000
e)	Aggregated information -  Volume - Price	As above
f)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2022
g)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

For further information please call:

NAHL Group PLC James Saralis (CEO) Chris Higham (CFO)	via FTI Consulting Tel: [phone]
Allenby Capital (Nomad & Broker) Jeremy Porter/Liz Kirchner/Vivek Bhardwaj (Corporate Finance) Amrit Nahal (Sales & Corporate Broking)	Tel: +44 (0 )  20 3328 5656
FTI Consulting (Financial PR) Alex Beagley Sam Macpherson Amy Goldup	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]

Notes to Editors

NAHL Group plc (AIM: NAH) is a leader in the Consumer Legal Services ("CLS") market. The Group provides services and products to individuals and businesses in the CLS market through its two divisions:

· Consumer Legal Services  provides outsourced marketing services to law firms through National Accident Helpline and Homeward Legal; and claims processing and conveyancing services to individuals through Your Law, Law Together and National Accident Law.  In addition, it also provides property searches through Searches UK

· Critical Care provides a range of specialist services in the catastrophic and serious injury market to both claimants and defendants through Bush & Co.

More information is available at  www.nahlgroupplc.co.uk ,   www.national-accident-helpline.co.uk , www.national-accident-law.co.uk   and  www.bushco.co.uk .

 

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