REG - Burford Capital Ltd - Intended Share Purchase for NED Share Plan

Burford CapitalAnnouncement

15/09/2021 08:30

RNS Number : 8441L
  
Burford Capital Limited
  
15 September 2021
  
 

 
15 September 2021
 
 
INTENDED PURCHASE OF SHARES TO SATISFY NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS' SHARE PLAN AWARD
 
Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces that it intends to conduct open market purchases  of Burford Ordinary Shares to satisfy a grant of award under its Non-Employee Directors' Share Plan. These purchases will occur as soon as practicable during the Company's current open period between September 15, 2021 and September 24, 2021. These transactions will have a market value of approximately $150,000 and are expected to result in purchases of no more than 15,000 shares based on the average per share closing price on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange on September 10, September 13 and September 14, 2021.
 
A further announcement will be made on completion of the share purchase.
 
 
For further information, please contact:
 



Burford Capital Limited








Robert Bailhache, Head of Investor Relations, EMEA and Asia - email


+44 (0)20 3530 2023




Jim Ballan, Head of Investor Relations, Americas - email


+1 (646) 793 9176














Numis Securities Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker


+44 (0)20 7260 1000




Kevin Cruickshank (NOMAD)








Charlie Farquhar / Jonathan Abbott (Joint Broker)


















Jefferies International Limited - Joint Broker


+44 (0)20 7029 8000




Graham Davidson








Tony White

















 
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore and Sydney.
 
For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com.
 
 
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other securities of Burford.
 
This release does not constitute an offer of any Burford fund. Burford Capital Investment Management LLC ("BCIM"), which acts as the fund manager of all Burford funds, is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The information provided herein is for informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The information contained herein is not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities (including, without limitation, interests or shares in the funds). Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by means of a final confidential Private Placement Memorandum and other offering documents.
 
Forward-looking statements
This announcement contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regarding assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future events. These statements are intended as "forward-looking statements". In some cases, predictive, future-tense or forward-looking words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "guidance", "intend", "may", "plan", "potential", "predict", "projected", "should" or "will" or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. In addition, we and our representatives may from time to time make other oral or written statements which are forward-looking statements, including in our periodic reports that we file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, other information sent to our security holders, and other written materials. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. We caution you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on  numerous assumptions and that our actual results of operations, including our financial condition and liquidity and the development of the industry in which we operate, may differ materially from (and be more negative than) those made in, or suggested by, the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement. Significant factors that may cause actual results to differ from those we expect include those discussed under "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 2021. In addition, even if our results of operations, including our financial condition and liquidity and the development of the industry in which we operate, are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, those results or developments may not be indicative of results or developments in subsequent periods.
 
Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events, a change in our views or expectations or otherwise.

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