Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0648J

Smoove PLC

08 December 2022

 

Smoove Plc

Directors' Dealings & Holdings in Company

Smoove plc (LSE: SMV, "Company" or "SMV") received notification on 7 December 2022 from Kestrel Partners LLP ("Kestrel") that on 6 December and 7 December 2022 it purchased for its discretionary clients, a total of 34,000 ordinary shares of 0.4p each ("Shares") in the Company at an average price of £0.3870294 per share. The notification also included the matters set out below.

Mr Scott, a non-executive director of SMV, is a partner of, and holds a beneficial interest in Kestrel. Mr Scott is also a shareholder in one of Kestrel's clients ("Kestrel Opportunities") and is therefore deemed to have a beneficial interest in Kestrel Opportunities' entire legal holding in SMV.

Following this notification, Kestrel Opportunities holds (and consequently Mr Scott is deemed to have a beneficial interest in) 13,232,144 Shares in the Company, and other clients of Kestrel, in which Mr Scott has no beneficial interest hold 6,168,946 Shares in the Company.

On a combined basis, Kestrel indirectly holds voting rights over 19,401,090 Shares in the Company, which represents 29.91 per cent of the Company's issued share capital.

Kestrel's interest in the Shares in the Company is held through the following nominees:

Holding type	Nominee	No. of shares	% of issued share capital
Indirect	Bank of New York Nominees Ltd	13,232,144	20.40%
Indirect	JIM Nominees Limited	492,235	0.76%
Indirect Indirect	Bank of New York Nominees Ltd Northern Trust Company AVFC	5,426,711 250,000	8.37% 0.38%

For further information contact:

S moove plc	Via Walbrook PR
Jesper With-Fogstrup, CEO
M ichael Cress , Chief Financial Officer
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nomad & Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Dominic Morley Erik Anderson
Walbrook PR Limited	[e-mail] or Tel: [phone]
Tom Cooper/ Nick Rome

ANNEX

Template for 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	Kestrel Partners LLP ('Kestrel')
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PCA - Oliver Rupert Andrew Scott (non-executive director of Smoove plc and Partner in Kestrel)
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Smoove plc
b)	LEI	213800TDUOUSIQT2OT29
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	0.4p Ordinary Shares ISIN: GB00BNG8T458
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	P urchase 06 December 2022 Price(s) Volume(s) 0.388333 15,000 shares 07 December 2022 Price(s) Volume(s) 0.3860 19,000 shares
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	Total Purchase of 3 4 ,0 00 shares at an average of £0.3870294 .
e)	Date of the transaction	06 December and 07 December 2022
f)	Place of the transaction	London AIM

 

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