Director/PDMR Shareholding
8 September 2020
FDM GROUP (HOLDINGS) PLC
Director / PDMR Shareholding
FDM Group (Holdings) Plc ("FDM" or the "Company"), a global professional services provider with a focus on Information Technology, announces that on 4 September and 7 September 2020, Michael McLaren (CFO, Executive Director) and Jonathan Young (CIO):
(i) exercised options over ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") which had been granted under the FDM Group (Holdings) Plc Performance Share Plan 2014 ("PSP"); and
(ii) sold Shares arising on the exercise of the PSP options.
The PSP options exercised were granted on 19 April 2017 and had an exercise price of £0.01 per share.
Details of the number of PSP options exercised and Shares sold are set out in the following table.
Name of PDMR | Date | Number of Shares over which PSP option exercised | Number of Shares sold | Sale price of Shares |
Michael McLaren (Chief Financial Officer)* | 4 September 2020 | 20,000 | 20,000 | £10.496 |
Jonathan Young (Chief Information Officer) | 4 September 2020 | 10,600 | 10,600 | £10.404 |
7 September 2020 | 9,400 | 9,400 | £10.426 |
*Indicates Executive Director
Following these transactions, the shareholding of Michael McLaren remains unchanged at 520,728 Shares (representing approximately 0.48% of the issued share capital of the Company).
The notifications below, made pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on Market Abuse, provide further information about these transactions.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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(a) | Name | (i) Michael McLaren (ii) Jonathan Young (iii) Jonathan Young
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2 | Reason for the notification
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(a) | Position/Status | (i) Chief Financial Officer (ii) Chief Information Officer (iii) Chief Information Officer
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(b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification
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3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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(a) | Name | FDM Group (Holdings) Plc
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(b) | LEI | 213800YR62D7GUZLMZ71
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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
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(a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification Code
| Ordinary shares of £0.01 each
ISIN: GB00BLWDVP51 | ||||||||||||
(b) | Nature of the transaction
| Exercise of options to acquire ordinary shares of £0.01 each
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(c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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(d) | Aggregated Information - Aggregated Volume - Price | N/A
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(e) | Date of the Transaction | (i) 4 September 2020 (ii) 4 September 2020 (iii) 7 September 2020
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(f) | Place of the Transaction | Outside a trading venue
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Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification: | Mark Heather, Company Secretary, FDM Group (Holdings) Plc |
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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(a) | Name | (i) Michael McLaren (ii) Jonathan Young (iii) Jonathan Young
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2 | Reason for the notification
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(a) | Position/Status | (i) Chief Financial Officer (ii) Chief Information Officer (iii) Chief Information Officer
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(b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification
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3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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(a) | Name | FDM Group (Holdings) Plc
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(b) | LEI | 213800YR62D7GUZLMZ71
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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
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(a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification Code
| Ordinary shares of £0.01 each
ISIN: GB00BLWDVP51 | ||||||||||||
(b) | Nature of the transaction
| Sale of ordinary shares of £0.01 each acquired pursuant to the exercise of options
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(c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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(d) | Aggregated Information - Aggregated Volume - Price | N/A | ||||||||||||
(e) | Date of the Transaction | (i) 4 September 2020 (ii) 4 September 2020 (iii) 7 September 2020
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(f) | Place of the Transaction | London Stock Exchange.
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Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification: | Mark Heather, Company Secretary, FDM Group (Holdings) Plc |
Contacts
Mark Heather, Company Secretary | 020 3056 8240 |
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