Founder Share Plan and Notice of General Meeting
31/10/2025 13:48
RNS Number : 7451F
Corcel PLC
31 October 2025
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Corcel PLC
("Corcel" or the "Company")
ADOPTION OF FOUNDER SHARE PLAN
ADOPTION OF SHARE OPTION PLAN
DIRECTORS DEALINGS
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING
AND TVR
31 October 2025
Corcel plc, (LONDON AIM: CRCL), the Angola-Brazil-focused energy company, announces that it has adopted and made awards under the Founder Share Plan ("FSP") and the Share Option Plan ("SOP"). The adoption of the FSP is subject to the ratification of shareholders to be sought by way of ordinary resolution at a General Meeting ("GM") of the Company to be held at 111 Park Street, London W1K 7JF at 15:00 on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, notice of which will be mailed to shareholders today. If the resolution is not passed, the FSP will lapse, and the awards made will have no effect.
Background and Rationale
The Company has adopted the FSP and the SOP to provide a framework to support the Company's recruitment, retention and incentivisation of highly qualified Directors, senior management and staff.
Subject to shareholder ratification of the FSP, the Company has made awards under the FSP to its two Executive Directors, Scott Gilbert and Geraldine Geraldo. The Company considers that the FSP provides a compelling structure to retain and incentivise the Executive Directors to deliver strong and sustained performance, material share price growth and substantial shareholder value over the long term.
The Company has adopted the SOP and made share option awards with a market value exercise price to its Executive Directors and other senior employees. Options with the same terms have been made to the Company's Non-Executive Chairman and Non-Executive Directors as detailed below. These awards have been made to support retention, incentivisation and alignment with shareholders over the long term.
In designing both the FSP and the SOP, the Company has taken independent advice from H2G Remuneration Advisory LLP, which benchmarked the plans against market comparators within the AIM energy and natural resources sector. The resulting structures are considered to be in line with prevailing market practice, in particular by ensuring that rewards are directly linked to value creation for all shareholders. The Company has also consulted with certain major shareholders in respect of both the FSP and the SOP. This exercise provided valuable feedback which has been taken on board in finalising the terms of the FSP and the SOP.
The Company is also considering the establishment of an employee benefit trust, in due course, whereby shares may be purchased in the market to support options granted under the FSP and SOP, in order to limit shareholder dilution.
Pradeep Kabra, Corcel's Independent Non-Executive Chair, commented: "These new incentive plans are designed to align our leadership team's interests directly with those of our shareholders. The Board believes these arrangements, developed with independent expert advice and reflecting feedback from major shareholders, provide an appropriate and competitive framework to retain and motivate our key executives as we pursue our growth objectives."
Key terms of the 2025 Founder Share Plan
The FSP is a value creation plan based on delivering increased equity value over next three years above a share price of 0.34p per Corcel share (the "Base Price"), the price at which the Company last raised equity capital in July 2025 and yesterday's closing mid-market price. The FSP is intended to provide the potential for participants to be meaningfully rewarded for generating material shareholder value above the Base Price with the main parameters being that the rewards will amount to 10% of shareholder value created (increases share price together with any dividends and other distributions) over the next three years above a compounded annual return of 15%.
The FSP will be performance tested and awards will vest based on the average share price over the final 20 dealing days of the three-year performance period, which commenced on the date the awards were made (the "End Share Price").
Awards have been granted as units equally (50:50) to the Company's Executive Directors, Scott Gilbert and Geraldine Gerado. The value of the awards at the end of the three-year performance period will be delivered to the Executive Directors by the grant of nominal cost share options which will be exercisable up to 5 years from the adoption of the FSP.
The FSP is subject to an overall cap that the number of options issuable pursuant to the FSP will not exceed 8% of the shares in issue at the date of grant of the share options. The options will be subject to malus and clawback provisions.
The adoption of the FSP is a Related Party Transaction under the AIM Rules. The Independent Directors, being all the directors with the exception of Scott Gilbert and Geraldine Geraldo, consider, having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser, Zeus Capital, that the terms of the transaction are fair and reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the Company are concerned.
Key terms of the 2025 Share Option Plan
The SOP is a conventional share option plan under which options with a market value exercise price may be granted from time to time to participants.
A total of 494.7 million Options have been granted under the SOP with an exercise price of 0.34p, of which 133.2 million have been granted to each of the two Executive Directors as detailed in the table below, with the balance of 228.3 million being issued to other senior staff. In addition, 60.9 million options have been granted outside the SOP, with an exercise price of 0.34p and on similar terms, to the Non-Executive Chairman and Non-Executive Directors as set out in the table below.
| Name of Grantee | Title | Number of awards | % of current issued share capital* |
| Scott Gilbert | Chief Executive Officer | 133.2m | 1.75% |
| Geraldine Geraldo | Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer | 133.2m | 1.75% |
| Pradeep Kabra | Non-Executive Chairman | 38.1m | 0.5% |
| Andrew Fairclough | Non-Executive Director | 22.8m | 0.3% |
| Yan Zhao | Non-Executive Director | 22.8m | 0.3% |
| Directors | Total Shares | % of ISC held in Ordinary shares | Options | Warrants |
| Scott Gilbert | 100,307,770 | 1.31% | 133,200,000 | 3,000,000 |
| Geraldine Geraldo | 139,498,529 | 1.82% | 133,200,000 | 42,975,000 |
| Pradeep Kabra | 32,934,115 | 0.43% | 38,100,000 | Nil |
| Andrew Fairclough | 17,972,625 | 0.23% | 22,800,000 | Nil |
| Yan Zhao | 46,220,353 | 0.60% | 22,800,000 | 3,000,000 |
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | 1. Scott Gilbert 2. Geraldine Geraldo 3. Pradeep Kabra 4. Andrew Fairclough 5. Yan Zhao | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | 1. Chief Executive Officer 2. Executive Director 3. Chairman 4. Non-Executive Director 5. Non-Executive Director | ||||
| b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | Corcel plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 2138009ECXQQ3EGKVY57 | ||||
| 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 | Ordinary shares of £0.0001 each | ||||
| Identification code | GB00BKM69866 | |||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Award of options | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volumes(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |||
| 1. £0.0034 2. £0.0034 3. £0.0034 4. £0.0034 5. £0.0034 | 1. 133,200,000 2. 133,200,000 3. 38,100,000 4. 22,800,000 5. 22,800,000 | |||||
| d) | Aggregated information | |||||
| Aggregated volume | N/A | |||||
| Price | N/A | |||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 30 October 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside of a trading venue | ||||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | 1. Scott Gilbert 2. Geraldine Geraldo | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | 1. Chief Executive Officer 2. Executive Director | ||||
| b) | Initial notification/Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | Corcel plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 2138009ECXQQ3EGKVY57 | ||||
| 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 | Ordinary shares of £0.0001 each | ||||
| Identification code | GB00BKM69866 | |||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Issue of Shares | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volumes(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |||
| 1. £0.0034 2. £0.0034 | 1. 14,000,000 2. 14,000,000 | |||||
| d) | Aggregated information | |||||
| Aggregated volume | N/A | |||||
| Price | N/A | |||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 30 October 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | AIM, London | ||||