Extension of Warrants

RNS Number : 1096L

Tirupati Graphite PLC

28 December 2022

 

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28 December 2022

Tirupati Graphite plc

('Tirupati' or the 'Company')

Extension of Warrants

Tirupati Graphite plc (TGR.L, TGRHF.OTCQX), the specialist flake graphite company announces that the Board has extended the expiry date on 4,940,000 warrants previously issued to Directors and management from their current expiry date, as per the table below. All other terms of the warrants remain the same.

Since Tirupati was admitted to the Official List of the FCA (by way of a standard listing under Chapter 14 of the Listing Rules) and to trading on the Main Market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange in December 2020, the Directors and management have been restricted from trading in the securities of the Company for a substantial part of that period. As such, the Board had granted extension to provide a reasonable opportunity for warrants to be exercised as announced on 30 December 2021.  There has, however, been very limited opportunity for exercise of the these warrants since then as a result of the Company being in close periods during the year during which the directors have not been permitted to exercise the warrants. The warrants remain the only significant equity linked incentive provided by the Company to its leadership team.

The Board has therefore considered it appropriate to grant a further extension of the expiry date for all the outstanding warrants as tabulated below to 31 December 2025; the longer-term is designed  to avoid a similar situation occurring as in 2022.

Warrant Holder	No of warrants	Exercise Price	Current expiry date	Extended expiry date
Hemant Poddar	200,000	£0.300	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Christian St. John-Dennis	200,000	£0.300	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Shishir Poddar	600,000	£0.300	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Hemant Poddar	240,000	£0.400	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Christian St. John-Dennis	240,000	£0.400	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Rajesh Kedia	140,000	£0.400	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Shishir Poddar	900,000	£0.400	31-12-2022	31-12-2025
Puruvi Poddar	320,000	£0.400	31-03-2023	31-03-2025
Hemant Poddar	240,000	£0.400	31-12-2023	31-12-2025
Christian St. John-Dennis	240,000	£0.400	31-12-2023	31-12-2025
Rajesh Kedia	240,000	£0.400	31-12-2023	31-12-2025
Shishir Poddar	900,000	£0.400	31-12-2023	31-12-2025
Puruvi Poddar	480,000	£0.400	31-03-2024	31-03-2025

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For further information, please visit https://www.tirupatigraphite.co.uk/ or contact:

Tirupati Graphite Plc Puruvi Poddar - Chief of Corporate & Business Development	[e-mail] [phone]
Optiva Securities Limited (Broker) Ben Maitland - Corporate Finance Robert Emmet - Corporate Broking	[phone] [phone]
FTI Consulting (Financial PR) Ben Brewerton / Nick Hennis / Kelly Smith	[phone] [e-mail]

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR")/person closely associated
a)	Name:	1.  Shisir Poddar 2.  Henant Poddar 3.  Christian Dennis 4.  Rajesh Kedia 5.  Puruvi Poddar
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	1.  Executive Chairman 2.  Non-Executive Director 3.  Non-Executive Director 4.  Non-Executive Director 5.  Chief of Corporate & Business Development
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Amendment notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Tirupati Graphite Plc
b)	LEI:	2138006PQV9F72H17783
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 £0.025 each   GB00BFYMWJ95
b)	Nature of the transaction:		Extension of Warrants expiry
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):		Price Volume PDMR 1 £0.300   200,000 Hemant Poddar 2 £0.300   200,000 Christian St. John-Dennis 3 £0.300   600,000 Shishir Poddar 4 £0.400   240,000 Hemant Poddar 5 £0.400   240,000 Christian St. John-Dennis 6 £0.400   140,000 Rajesh Kedia 7 £0.400   900,000 Shishir Poddar 8 £0.400   320,000 Puruvi Poddar 10 £0.400   240,000 Hemant Poddar 11 £0.400   240,000 Christian St. John-Dennis 12 £0.400   240,000 Rajesh Kedia 13 £0.400   900,000 Shishir Poddar 14 £0.400   480,000 Puruvi Poddar
d)	Aggregated information:  Aggregated volume:  Price:		Price Volume 1. £0.30 1,000,000 2. £0.40 3,940,000
e)	Date of the transaction:		27 December 2022
f)	Place of the transaction:		Outside a trading venue

 

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