RNS...4 Aug 2022 08:04
Issue of Share Options and Director/PDMR Dealing
Quadrise, the supplier of MSAR® and bioMSAR™ emulsion technology and fuels, providing innovative lower cost and lower carbon alternatives to fuel oil and biofuels, announces the grant of an aggregate of 32,882,979 options to subscribe for new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to directors and employees of the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Company's Unapproved Share Option Plan 2016 ("2016 Plan") and the Company's Enterprise Management Incentive Share Option Plan ("EMI Plan"), as appropriate (the "Options").
Of the Options, a total of 12,500,000 performance share options (the "Performance Options") have been awarded to executives of the Company, including awards to certain of the Company's directors and PDMRs in the amounts set out below.
The award of Performance Options to Jason Miles, Quadrise's Chief Executive Officer, follows a prior share options award to Mr. Miles on 3 September 2021 which will lapse unvested on the first anniversary of their grant date due to their specific performance conditions not having been met.
Director/PDMR
Number of Options
Plan
Exercise price
Jason Miles
7,500,000
2016 Plan
3.0p
David Scott
1,250,000
EMI Plan
3.0p
Philip Hill
1,000,000
EMI Plan
3.0p
Total
9,750,000
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The Performance Options will vest as to 50% on the first anniversary of grant and the remaining 50% shall vest on the second anniversary of the date of grant. All vestings are subject to the satisfaction of specific performance conditions prior to the vesting dates.
The Performance Options awarded under the 2016 Plan will be exercisable from vesting until the eighth anniversary of the date of grant and the Performance Options awarded under the EMI Plan will be exercisable from vesting until the tenth anniversary of the date of grant.
In addition to the Performance Options, the Company has also granted a total of 14,000,000 additional Options to Non-Executive Directors of the Company in accordance with the provisions of the 2016 Plan, in the amounts set out below (the "Additional Options").
Director
Number of Options
Plan
Exercise price
Andrew Morrison
4,000,000
2016 Plan
3.0p
Laurie Mutch
4,000,000
2016 Plan
3.0p
Philip Snaith
4,000,000
2016 Plan
3.0p
Dilip Shah
2,000,000
2016 Plan
3.0p
Total
14,000,000
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The Additional Options will vest as to 50% on the first anniversary of grant and the remaining 50% shall vest on the second anniversary of the date of grant and have no performance conditions to vesting attached. The Additional Options will be exercisable from vesting until the eighth anniversary of the date of grant. The vestings are not subject to the satisfaction of specific performance conditions.
The Company also announces the issue a total of 6,