Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2331C

Robert Walters PLC

02 March 2011

 



2 March 2011

ROBERT WALTERS PLC

Directors' Shareholdings

On 2 March 2011, as detailed below, Directors of Robert Walters plc ("the Company") (i) exercised Awards under the Robert Walters Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP') over ordinary shares of 20 pence each held in the Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust and (ii) sold 1,287,677 ordinary shares of 20 pence each at a price of 325p per share:

Director	Number of Awards exercised	Awards exercised as a % of issued share capital	Exercise price	Number of shares sold
Robert Walters	258,796	0.30%	£0.00	749,251
Giles Daubeney	215,754	0.25%	£0.00	424,395
Alan Bannatyne	141,657	0.17%	£0.00	114,031

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Walters', Mr Daubeney's and Mr Bannatyne's overall  shareholdings in the Company have increased / (decreased), as follows:

Director	Date	Net number of shares acquired / (disposed)	Price paid    per share	Price received per share	Number of shares now held	% holding in Company
Robert Walters	2 March 2011	(490,455)	£0.00	£3.25	2,092,350	2.73%
Giles Daubeney	2 March 2011	(208,641)	£0.00	£3.25	1,590,157	2.08%
Alan Bannatyne	2 March 2011	27,626	£0.00	£3.25	184,878	0.24%

Following the transactions above, for the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, we would like to notify the market of the following:

Robert Walters plc's issued share capital consists of 85,463,121 ordinary shares with voting rights. Robert Walters plc holds 8,922,900 ordinary shares in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Robert Walters plc is 76,540,221.

The above figure of 76,540,221 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 to their interest in, Robert Walters plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

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