Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9247P

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

15 February 2023

 

15 February 2023

London Stock Exchange Group PLC ("LSEG")

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SECURITIES

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022 :

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	14 February 2023
Number of voting ordinary shares purchased:	3,164
Highest price paid per share:	7,714.00p
Lowest price paid per share:	7,648.00p
Volume weighted average price per share:	7,678.43p

LSEG intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transactions, LSEG holds 5,353,210 of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in treasury and has 501,766,437 voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue (excluding treasury shares). LSEG also has 51,124,377 limited-voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue, which carry one-tenth of a vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 506,878,875. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation 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.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as such legislation forms part of retained EU law as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by the Morgan Stanley on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is included below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

For further information, please contact:

London Stock Exchange Group plc
Lucie Holloway, Rhiannon Davies (Media)	[phone] [e-mail]
Peregrine Riviere (Investors)

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:  3,164 (ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34 ) 

Date of purchases:  14 February 2023

Investment firm:  Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price	Aggregated volume	Lowest price per share	Highest price per share
XLON	7,672.56p	1,220	7,648.00p	7,712.00p
TRQX	7,686.59p	878	7,660.00p	7,714.00p
BATF	7,678.43p	1,066	7,678.43p	7,678.43p

Detailed Information¹:

Transaction Date	Time (GMT)	Volume	Price (GBp)	Trading Venue	Transaction Reference Number
14/02/2023	08:03:39	72	7,660.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onxhxh
14/02/2023	08:03:39	72	7,660.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIKdf
14/02/2023	08:03:39	9	7,660.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onxhxj
14/02/2023	08:03:39	70	7,660.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIKdo
14/02/2023	08:03:39	137	7,658.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIKeW
14/02/2023	08:07:55	57	7,648.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndITo3
14/02/2023	08:07:55	82	7,648.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndITo5
14/02/2023	08:14:26	162	7,674.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIhRR
14/02/2023	08:15:32	175	7,670.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onyf9K
14/02/2023	08:15:32	148	7,670.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIjyD
14/02/2023	08:23:20	105	7,680.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndIx4X
14/02/2023	08:26:13	52	7,690.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onzQIH
14/02/2023	08:26:13	44	7,690.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onzQIJ
14/02/2023	08:32:27	114	7,714.00	TRQX	E0DSl8onztJf
14/02/2023	09:05:45	92	7,712.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndJsyv
14/02/2023	14:12:01	92	7,680.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndPJ2I
14/02/2023	15:50:38	12	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJe
14/02/2023	15:50:38	12	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJg
14/02/2023	15:50:38	30	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJi
14/02/2023	15:50:38	7	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJl
14/02/2023	15:50:38	17	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJo
14/02/2023	15:50:38	14	7,688.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndSSJr
14/02/2023	16:02:08	95	7,698.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooXDRf
14/02/2023	16:05:04	44	7,694.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooXU8O
14/02/2023	16:05:04	52	7,694.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooXU8U
14/02/2023	16:12:52	95	7,688.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooYGEU
14/02/2023	16:20:59	46	7,680.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndTEgQ
14/02/2023	16:20:59	65	7,680.00	XLON	E0DSl8ndTEgS
14/02/2023	16:25:06	50	7,684.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooZXA4
14/02/2023	16:25:06	76	7,684.00	TRQX	E0DSl8ooZXA6
14/02/2023	16:36:31	1,066	7,678.43	BATF	MhSgP_isQ_yMYRDrcBAe4QA

¹The transaction shown in the last row of the table are purchases made from York Holdings II pursuant to certain arrangements entered into between Morgan Stanley and York Holdings II, as detailed in the announcement of 7 October 2022.

 

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