REG - Worldsec Ld - Grant of Options <Origin Href="QuoteRef">WSL.L</Origin>
RNS Number : 5570HWorldsec Ld01 December 20151 December 2015
Worldsec Limited (the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")
Grant of Options
The Board announces that, under the Company's Employee Share Option Scheme ("Scheme"), it has granted options aggregating 2,950,000 ordinary shares of US$ 0.001 each in the Company (the "Options") to the Directors and certain staff of the Group on 1 December 2015 ("Date of Grant").
The Options granted have an exercise price of US$0.122 per share, which, based on the USD/GBP exchange rate of 0.66 at the Date of Grant, is equivalent to 8.1 pence per share, being ninety per cent of the average of the middle market quotations of the Company's shares (as derived from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange) for the five Business Days immediately preceding the Date of Grant. The Options have a vesting period of six months and a tenure of 10 years from the Date of Grant. Under the Scheme rules, the grantees are not required to pay for the grant of the Options.
Details of the grant of the Options are as follows:
Name
Position
Number of options granted
Alastair Gunn-Forbes
Non-executive Chairman
500,000
Henry Ying Chew Cheong
Executive Director
500,000
Mark Chung Fong
Non-executive Director
500,000
Martyn Stuart Wells
Non-executive Director
500,000
Ernest Chiu Shun She
Executive Director
500,000
Certain staff of the Group
-
450,000
The Options have been granted as part of an overall strategy to remunerate and incentivise key management and staff of the Group.
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Date: 1 December 2015
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