Directors Acquire Shares

Robert Walters PLC
04 September 2007

4 SEPTEMBER 2007



                               ROBERT WALTERS PLC

                      ('Robert Walters' or 'the Company')



                       Acquisition of Shares by Directors



Robert Walters plc announces that Robert Walters, the Company's Chief Executive,
and Giles Daubeney, Chief Operating Officer, have today exercised options to
purchase shares at £1.70 per share, under the terms of The Robert Walters
Executive Share Option Scheme.



A portion of the options exercised were sold today at a price of £3.30 per share
in order to fund the purchase price and to meet personal tax liabilities.



As a result of the above transactions, Mr Walters' and Mr Daubeney's overall
shareholdings in the Company have increased on a net basis by 282,764 and 77,117
respectively, as follows:


Director                   Number of share     Number of    Number of shares     % of  issued share
                         options exercised   shares sold            now held       capital now held

Robert Walters                     995,830       713,066           1,485,372                  1.71%

Giles Daubeney                     271,590       194,473           1,104,139                  1.27%







Following the exercise of the above options, together with other options
exercised by employees, Robert Walters plc's capital now consists of 87,038,563
ordinary shares with voting rights. Robert Walters plc holds 8,597,075 ordinary
shares in Treasury.



Therefore the total number of voting rights in Robert Walters plc is now
78,441,488.



The above figure (78,441,488) 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.



ENQUIRIES:

Pelham PR
James Henderson                                     [phone]
                                                    [e-mail]

Archie Berens                                       [phone]
                                                    [e-mail]




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