Polar Capital Holdings Plc (the "Company")
23 August 2013
Additional Listing
Application has been made to AIM for the admission of 176,359 new ordinary shares of 2.5 pence each in the Company to trading (the "New Shares"). The New Shares, which will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing shares in issue, have been allotted pursuant to the exercise of options by two employees of the Company. Admission of the New Shares is expected to become effective on 30 August 2013.
Following the issue of the New Shares the total number of ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Company with voting rights will be 82,955,216. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in Treasury.
The above figure of 82,955,216 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information please contact:
Polar Capital
Neil Taylor (Company Secretary)
+44 (0)20 7227 2700
Canaccord Genuity
Simon Bridges
Cameron Duncan
+44 (0)20 7523 8000
F T I Consulting
Ed Gascoigne-Pees
Jack Hickey
+44 (0)20 7269 7132