Grant of Options

RNS Number : 4778X
Cambridge Cognition Holdings PLC
04 May 2021
 

Cambridge Cognition Holdings Plc

 

("Cambridge Cognition" or the "Company")

 

Grant of Options

 

Cambridge Cognition Holdings plc (AIM: COG), which develops and markets digital solutions to assess brain health, announces that on 30 April 2021, the Company granted options ("Options") over a total of 446,500 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the Company's EMI option scheme and its unapproved option scheme.

Of these Options:

1.  231,500 were granted to Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") on behalf of the Company;

Name

Role

Number of Options Granted

Total number of Options held following Grant

Total number of Ordinary Shares held

Percentage of Current Issued Share Capital Held

Matthew Stork

Chief Executive Officer

90,000

783,061

125,000

0.40%

Michael Holton

Chief Financial Officer

35,000

35,000

-


Ricky Dolphin

Chief Technology Officer

35,000

265,634

-


Fiona Cree

Chief Operating Officer

35,000

211,857

-

-

Richard Cooper

Chief Commercial Officer

36,500

208,286

-

-

 

2.  215,000 were granted to other employees of the Company.

Of the Options granted:

1.  230,000 of those Options granted to PDMRs and all the Options granted to other employees are exercisable at a price of 125 pence per Ordinary Share from three years following the date of award until the tenth anniversary of the date of award, subject to satisfying the following performance criteria:

a.  50% of the Options granted will vest if the average closing mid-market price of an Ordinary Share for any three month period exceeds 142 pence, with the price on the last day of that period being at least 120 pence, and the last day of this period being no later than 30 April 2024; and

b.  50% of the Options granted will vest if the average closing mid-market price of an Ordinary Share for any three month period exceeds 170 pence, with the price on the last day of that period being at least 145 pence, and the last day of this period being no later than 30 April 2024.

 

2.  The remaining 1,500 options granted to PDMRs are exercisable at a price of 1 pence per Ordinary Share from two years following the date of award until the tenth anniversary of the date of award. All of these Options are granted over shares already in issue and held by Cambridge Cognition Trustees Limited on behalf of the Employee Benefit Trust.

Following the grant of Options, the total number of Options outstanding over unissued Ordinary Shares is 2,731,136 representing approximately 8.76% of the Company's issued share capital.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

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)

Names

Matthew Stork - Chief Executive Officer

Michael Holton - Chief Financial Officer

Ricky Dolphin - Chief Technology Officer

Fiona Cree - Chief Operating Officer

Richard Cooper - Chief Commercial Officer

2. 

Reason for the Notification

a)

Position/status

See 1(a) above for positions - all classified as PDMRs of the Company

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

Initial Notification

3. 

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

a)

Name

Cambridge Cognition Holdings Plc

b)

LEI

213800SZKDIN122EPA96

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

In each case, the grant of Options over Ordinary Shares on 30 April 2021

 

Identification code

GB00B8DV9647

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares

 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price: n/a

Volumes:

Matthew Stork - 90,000 Options

Michael Holton - 35,000 Options

Ricky Dolphin - 35,000 Options

Fiona Cree - 35,000 Options

Richard Cooper - 36,500 Options

d)

Aggregated information:

· Aggregated volume

· Price

n/a

e)

Date of the transaction

30 April 2021

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014

Enquiries

Cambridge Cognition Holdings PLC


Matthew Stork, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Holton, Chief Financial Officer

Tel: 01223 810 700

press@camcog.com



finnCap Ltd (NOMAD and Joint Broker)

Tel: 020 7220 0500

Geoff Nash / Simon Hicks

(Corporate Finance)

Alice Lane/ Manasa Patil

(Corporate Broking)

 

Dowgate Capital Limited (Joint Broker)

David Poutney/ James Serjeant

Tel: 020 3903 7715

(Corporate Broking)



IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR and IR)

Tel: 020 3934 6630

Tim Metcalfe/ Graham Herring/ Zach Cohen


 

 

 

 

 

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