Director/PDMR Shareholding

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc
07 January 2008


For Immediate Release                                             7 January 2008



                   Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (the 'Company')

                           Director/PDMR Shareholding

                        Notification of Option Exercise



On 4 January 2008 the following Director exercised his option to purchase the
number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each set out in the table below in the
capital of the Company. These options were granted on the date shown below
pursuant to the Company's 2004 Stock Option Plan:

Name               Date of Grant          Number of Shares Exercised

Mazen Darwazah     12 October 2004               160,000



On 4 January 2008, the Director disposed of the following number of shares 
acquired pursuant to the exercise of the options set out above:

                                          Market Price 
Names             Date of Disposal        on Disposal     Number of Shares Disposed

Mazen Darwazah    4 January 2008          £4.85                 160,000



As a result of the above transaction the Director listed below now has the
following holdings in the ordinary share capital of the Company:

Name             Ordinary Shares in the Company         Percentage of Share capital

Mazen Darwazah               61,958                                0.329%

The issued share capital of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC is now 170,893,807  
ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Date of Notification: 7 January 2008

Henry Knowles
Company Secretary
020 7399 2760



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