Increase in Share Capital

RNS Number : 2950B

RWS Holdings PLC

15 June 2016

 

                                                                                                                                                                                  15 June 2016

RWS Holdings plc

Increase in Share Capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS", "the Company"), the world's leading provider of intellectual property support services (patent translations, international patent filing solutions and searches), commercial translations and linguistic validation, announces that a total of 23,215 options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1p each ("shares") pursuant to the Company's share option plan, adopted on 3 April 2013 have been exercised by Senior Managers of the Company on 14 June 2016.

Following this exercise, there are a further 3,832,905 vested options outstanding under the Company's unapproved option scheme and a further 116,075 vested options under the approved option scheme.

RWS has issued new shares to satisfy these options bringing the total number of shares in issue to 215,741,435, an increase of 0.01%. The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares.  This figure 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 in their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of these 23,215 shares which is expected to occur on 21 June 2016.

For further information, please contact:

RWS Holdings plc

Richard Thompson, Deputy Chief Executive & Group Finance Director                                         01753 480200

MHP

Katie Hunt/Simon Hockridge                                                                                                    020 3128 8794

Numis

Stuart Skinner (Nominated Adviser)                                                                                          020 7260 1000

Luke Bordewich (Corporate Broker)

 

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