Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Disclosure

RNS Number : 8167B

SysGroup PLC

06 April 2017

 

6 April 2017

SysGroup plc

("SysGroup" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Disclosure

SysGroup plc (AIM: SYS), the managed services and cloud integrator, announces that it has awarded options over a total of 125,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Options") to Julian Llewellyn, Chief Financial Officer.  The Options were granted on Mr Llewellyn's appointment to the Board, being today 6 April 2017.

The Options were granted under an EMI Option Contract and at an exercise price of 47.5p per share (being the mid-market closing price yesterday, 5 April 2016).  The Options will vest two years from the grant date or earlier on an exit event subject to Mr Llewellyn remaining employed by the Group.

Following the grant of the options Julian Llewellyn holds options over 125,000 Ordinary Shares. Julian Llewellyn does not currently hold any Ordinary Shares in the Company.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Julian David Llewellyn
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Financial Officer
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	SysGroup Plc
b)	LEI	213800D18GPZZJR9SH55
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 Identification code	Options over Ordinary Shares ISIN: GB00BYT18182
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of EMI options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £0.475 125,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/a
e)	Date of the transaction	06 April 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	N/a

For further information please contact: SysGroup plc Chris Evans, CEO Julian Llewellyn, CFO	Tel: [phone]
Shore Capital (Nomad and Broker) Bidhi Bhoma / Edward Mansfield	Tel: [phone]
Alma PR (Financial PR) Josh Royston / Hilary Buchanan / Helena Bogle	Tel: [phone]

About SysGroup

SysGroup is a leading provider of Cloud Hosting, Managed Services and expert IT Consultancy. The Group delivers solutions that ensure clients understand and benefit from industry-leading technologies and advanced hosting capabilities.  The SysGroup team focuses on a customer's strategic and operational requirements - enabling them to free up resources, grow their core business and avoid the distractions and complexity of delivering IT services.

The Group has offices in Liverpool, Coventry, London and East Sussex.

For more information, visit http://www.sysgroup.com

 

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