Director Dealings, Issue of Equity and TVR

RNS Number : 6768G

YouGov PLC

26 November 2020

 

26 November 2020

YouGov plc ("YouGov" or "the Company")

Director Dealings, Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

YouGov plc, the international research and data analytics group, announces that it was notified on 25 November 2020 that Stephan Shakespeare, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, exercised 2,593,473 share options over Ordinary Shares in the Company and sold 1,200,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of £9.25 per Ordinary Share as detailed in the below tables, for personal financial planning and tax purposes and other contributions due in respect of the release of the shares. Following these transactions, Mr Shakespeare's beneficial interest in the Company has increased from 6.9% to 8.0% of the Company's issued share capital, with his new total beneficial interest being 8,811,029 Ordinary Shares.

Issue of equity

Following this exercise of share options, application has been made for the admission of 2,593,473 new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM with admission anticipated to be on 1 December 2020.

Total voting rights

Following the issue of these new Ordinary Shares, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue is 111,184,807. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The above figure includes 980,152 Ordinary Shares that are held by the YouGov Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes. Shareholders may use the figure of 110,204,655 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 Group under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries

YouGov plc Tilly Heald (Company Secretary)	020 7012 6000
FTI Consulting Charles Palmer / Elena Kalinskaya	020 3727 1000
Numis Securities (NOMAD and Joint Broker) Nick Westlake / Hugo Rubinstein / Matt Lewis	020 7260 1000
Berenberg (Joint Broker) Mark Whitmore / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff	020 3207 7800

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Stephan Shakespeare
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
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:	Ordinary Shares of 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Exercise of options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) GBP 9.25 2,593,473
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume: · Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	25 November 2020
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Stephan Shakespeare
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
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:	Ordinary Shares of 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Disposal of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) GBP 9.25 1,200,000
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume: · Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	25 November 2020
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

 

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