Employee Share Options and PDMR Dealing

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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