REG - GlobalData PLC - Employee Share Options and PDMR Dealing

GlobalDataAnnouncement

21/05/2020 16:15

RNS Number : 6690N
  
GlobalData PLC
  
21 May 2020
  
 

GlobalData plc
("GlobalData" or the "Company")
 
Employee Share Options and PDMR Dealing
 
 
GlobalData today announces that it has received notification that on 21 May 2020, Graham Lilley, CFO, exercised 50,000 share options over ordinary shares in the Company ("Shares") and sold 50,000 Shares on the same day, as set out in further detail in the below Notification of Dealing Form. This exercise follows confirmation in the Company's Final Results announcement released on 24 February 2020 that the results for the year ended 31 December 2019 fulfilled the performance condition for the exercisability of 1.8 million employee share options.
 
To satisfy the exercise of options by Graham Lilley and other employees 1,837,709 Shares were transferred from the Company's employee benefit trust and 1,687,006 Shares in total were sold on 21 May 2020 to institutional investors at a price of 1220 pence per Share. The total voting rights in the Company remain unchanged at 118,113,869 with 190,000 Shares held in treasury. 
 
This notification is made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.
 
 
ENQUIRIES




GlobalData Plc


0207 936 6400




Mike Danson, Chief Executive


 




Graham Lilley, Group Financial Officer


 




 
N+1 Singer


0207 496 3000




James Maxwell


 




Justin McKeegan


 




 
Hudson Sandler


0207 796 4133




Nick Lyon


 




 
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
 


Graham Lilley (Chief Financial Officer)




2
 


Reason for the notification
 




a)
 


Position/status
 


PDMR




b)
 


Initial notification /Amendment
 


Initial notification




3
 


Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor




a)
 


Name
 


GlobalData plc




b)
 


LEI
 


2138005I669UO6PJXM24




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 1/14p each
 
GB00B87ZTG26




b)
 


Nature of the transaction


Exercise of share options and sale of Shares




c)
 


Price(s) and volume(s)
 
 


 




Price(s)
 


Volume(s)




Share option exercise price of 1/14p 


50,000




Sale of Shares at 1220p


50,000




 




d)
 


Aggregated information
 
- Aggregated volume
- Price
 


 
 
Not applicable
 




e)
 


Date of the transaction
 


21 May 2020




f)
 


Place of the transaction
 


Off market and London Stock Exchange, AIM (XLON)




 


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