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RNS Number : 2321R
RWS Holdings PLC
25 October 2019
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          25 October 2019

 

 

 

RWS Holdings plc

 

Increase in Share Capital

 

 

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS", "the Group"), one of the world's leading language and intellectual property support services providers, announces that a total of 1,269,480 options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("shares") pursuant to the Company's share option plan, adopted on 3 April 2013, have been exercised by Richard Thompson, the Group's Chief Executive Officer, on 25 October 2019.

 

RWS has issued new shares to satisfy these options bringing the total number of shares in issue to 274,965,387, an increase of 0.46%. The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of the 1,269,480 shares, which is expected to occur on 31 October 2019.

 

Following the exercise of these options Richard Thompson will retain 269,480 shares in the Company, having sold 1,000,000 shares in large part to satisfy the subscription price, tax and national insurance contributions (including employers' NI) arising on the exercise.

 

Following this exercise, there are a further 375,740 vested options outstanding under the Company's 2013 unapproved option scheme and no vested options outstanding under the 2013 approved option scheme.

 

In addition, there are 25,295 unvested approved options and 1,205,650 unvested unapproved options outstanding under the RWS Holdings Plc Share Scheme 2019.

 

The resultant equity interests of Richard Thompson in the Ordinary Shares of the Company are as follows:

 

 

 

No. of shares

 

 

% of shares in issue

 

Ordinary Shares

282,480

 

0.10%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unvested share options

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. of shares

Exercise Price

First date exercisable

Last date exercisable

2019 Approved Share Option Scheme

4,991

£6.01

10 May 2024

10 May 2029

2019 Unapproved Share Option Scheme

473,710

£6.01

10 May 2024

10 May 2029

 

Richard Thompson also saves £200 a month as part of the company's Sharesave scheme. This is a three-year scheme which will convertible into RWS Ordinary shares in February 2022 at an option price of £4.13.

 

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

RWS Holdings plc

Andrew Brode, Chairman

Richard Thompson, Chief Executive Officer

Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer

 

                                                          01753 480200

 

MHP (Financial PR advisor)

Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge

 

                                                          0203 128 8100

 

Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker)

Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank

Michael Burke

 

Berenberg (Joint Broker)

Ben Wright/Toby Flaux/ Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff  

 

0207 260 1000

 

 

 

020 3753 3069

 

 

 


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