Excercise of Options and Share Purchase

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Cerillion plc announced that on January 12, 2026, four PDMRs exercised options for 22,500 ordinary shares, with a total of 10,627 shares sold by Mark Nicholls, Andrew Smith, Amit McCann, and Alistair Carwardine at prices ranging from £14.40 to £14.60. The company also purchased 15,682 ordinary shares on January 13, 2026, at an average price of £14.78 per share to satisfy future SAYE scheme options. Following these transactions, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights is 29,515,292.

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Cerillion PLC
14 January 2026
 


AIM: CER

Cerillion plc

("Cerillion" or "the Company")

 

Exercise of Options and Share Purchase

 

Cerillion plc, the billing, charging and customer relationship management software solutions provider, announces that on 12 January 2026, options (the "Options") over 22,500 shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were exercised by four PDMRs of the Company, pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, details of which are set out below.

 

Name

Position

No. of LTIPs exercised

No. of shares sold

Sale price

Mark Nicholls

Chief Operating Officer

7,500

2,412

£14.40

Andrew Smith

Marketing Director

5,000

1,634

£14.40

Amit McCann

Account Development Director

5,000

1,581

£14.40

Alistair Carwardine

SVP Asia Pacific

5,000

5,000

£14.60

TOTAL



10,627


 

The 22,500 new Ordinary Shares were issued from Ordinary Shares previously held in treasury by the Company.

 

Furthermore, on 13 January 2026, the Company purchased 15,682 Ordinary Shares at an average price of £14.78 per Ordinary Share. The shares will be held in treasury in order to satisfy the future exercise of options under the Company's Save As You Earn scheme.

 

Following this purchase, a total of 31,266 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

 

Total voting rights

 

Following both the exercise of the options and the share purchase, and for the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the total number of Ordinary Shares with a right to vote is 29,515,292, being the 29,546,558 Ordinary Shares in issue less the 31,266 Ordinary Shares held in treasury.

 

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Cerillion plc

c/o KTZ Communications

Louis Hall, CEO

T: 020 3178 6378

Andrew Dickson, CFO




Panmure Liberum (Nomad and Broker)

T: 020 3100 2000

Bidhi Bhoma, Edward Mansfield, Freddie Wooding




Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker)

T: 020 7496 3000

Rick Thompson, James Moat, James Fischer




KTZ Communications

T: 020 3178 6378

Katie Tzouliadis, Robert Morton


 

About Cerillion

www.cerillion.com

 

Cerillion has a 26-year track record in providing mission-critical software for billing, charging and customer relationship management ("CRM"), mainly to the telecommunications sector but also to other markets, including utilities and financial services. The Company has c. 70 customer installations across c. 45 countries. Headquartered in London, Cerillion also has operations in India and Bulgaria as well as a sales presence in Continental Europe, the USA, Singapore and Australia.

 

The business was originally part of Logica plc before its management buyout, led by CEO, Louis Hall, in 1999. The Company joined AIM in March 2016.

 

 

The information below is set out in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (which forms part of UK domestic law pursuant to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended), provides further details of the transaction EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail on the sales.



 

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

 

Name  

1. Mark Nicholls

2. Andrew Smith

3. Amit McCann

4. Alistair Carwardine

 

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status  

1. Chief Operating Officer

2. Marketing Director

3. Account Development Director

4. SVP Asia Pacific

 

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment  

 

Initial Notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name  

Cerillion PLC

b)

 

LEI  

213800ISIZMUC3P46850

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 GBP 0.005 each

GB00BYYX6C66

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of options

 

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

  Price(s) (£)

 

Volume(s)

1. 0.5p

2. 0.5p

3. 0.5p

4. 0.5p

1. 7,500

2. 5,000

3. 5,000

4. 5,000


d)

 

Aggregated information

   - Aggregated volume

 - Price

 

Not Applicable

e)

 

Date of the transaction  

12 January 2026

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

Off market

 

 



 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

 

Name  

1. Mark Nicholls

2. Andrew Smith

3. Amit McCann

 

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status  

1. Chief Operating Officer

2. Marketing Director

3. Account Development Director

 

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment  

 

Initial Notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name  

Cerillion PLC

b)

 

LEI  

213800ISIZMUC3P46850

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 GBP 0.005 each

GB00BYYX6C66

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Shares

 

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

  Price(s) (£)

 

Volume(s)

1. £14.40

2. £14.40

3. £14.40

1. 2,412

2. 1,634

3. 1,581




d)

 

Aggregated information

   - Aggregated volume

 - Price

 

Not Applicable - Single Transaction

e)

 

Date of the transaction  

12 January 2026

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

LSE

 



 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

 

Name  

Alistair Carwardine

 

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status  

SVP Asia Pacific

 

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment  

 

Initial Notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name  

Cerillion PLC

b)

 

LEI  

213800ISIZMUC3P46850

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 GBP 0.005 each

GB00BYYX6C66

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

Sale of shares

 

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

  Price(s) (£)

 

Volume(s)

£14.60

 

5,000


d)

 

Aggregated information

   - Aggregated volume

 - Price

 

Not Applicable - Single Transaction

e)

 

Date of the transaction  

13 January 2026

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

LSE

 

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