Exercise of Options

RNS Number : 9022F

Boku Inc

31 October 2018

 

31 October 2018

Boku, Inc.

("Boku" or the "Company" and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

Exercise of Options

The Company announces that Richard Hargreaves, non-executive director of the Company, notified the Company that he has exercised a total of 31,250 options over common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") at $0.28 per share on 29 October 2018 under the Company's Amended and Restated 2009 Equity Incentive Plan.

Adam Lee, Chief Revenue Officer of the Company, notified the Company that he has exercised a total of 446,113 options over Common Shares at $0.28 per share on 25 October 2018 under the Company's Amended and Restated 2009 Equity Incentive Plan.

As a result of these option exercises, Richard Hargreaves has a beneficial holding of 1,097,099 Common Shares (which represents 0.49% of the issued share capital of the Company) and Adam Lee has a beneficial holding of 649,710 Common Shares (which represents 0.29% of the issued share capital of the Company).

Total Voting Rights

The Company advises that, as at 30 October 2018, the Company's issued share capital is 223,366,994 Common Shares. No shares are held in treasury. As such, the Company's total number of Common Shares with voting rights is 223,366,994.

The above figure of 223,366,994 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 to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Richard Hargreaves
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Non-executive director / PDMR
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Boku, Inc.
b.	LEI	549300Y4P2ZPFKCZ0C60
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	Common Shares of $0.0001 each USU7744C1063
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise price Volume $0.28 31,250
d.	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Price	N/A - single transaction as above
e.	Date of the transaction	29 October 2018
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Adam Lee
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief Revenue Officer / PDMR
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Boku, Inc.
b.	LEI	549300Y4P2ZPFKCZ0C60
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	Common Shares of $0.0001 each USU7744C1063
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise price Volume $0.28 446,113
d.	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Price	N/A - single transaction as above
e.	Date of the transaction	25 October 2018
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

Enquiries:

Boku, Inc. Jon Prideaux, Chief Executive Officer Stuart Neal, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Edward Knight / Nick Prowting	[phone]
IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR) Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring / Heather Armstrong / Miles Nolan	[phone]

 

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