RE: CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE: Another Director bought Lindy’s shares18 May 2022 01:26
JohnnyB1,
I take my hat off to you for all the work you put into your research.
The Sep 21 RNS states,
"As part of the refreshed incentive package arrangements and the transaction above, Professor Durrant will no longer be interested in the 1,933,327 shares which were held jointly by the Employee Benefit Trust and Professor Durrant."
If maybe we add "Remaining" before "1,933,327" in the original text then that would explain the difference in figures. I'm willing to bet that she held 8,773,960 shares in the Scancell Employee Benefit Trust.
Significantly the new Option award to her was 9m shares (a conveniently rounded up replacement for those gifted to her and then sold maybe?). As a result of the actions RNS'd in Sep last year she now has a Round number of Options similar to the shared shares gifted to her in recognition of her new CEO role.
ALSO
The RNS states that,
"An existing institutional investor has agreed to purchase 4,459,681 of the Shares at 20.38p pence per share and a private individual has agreed to purchase 2,380,952 shares at 21 pence per share."
Since the second buyer is "a private individual " and since M Diggle has been conspicuously careful in declaring buys of 100K shares it would surprise me no end if the 2,380,952 shares are in his hands.
Further to this the holding of the 2,380,952 shares to the private holder is less than 0.3% of the Company and so would seem unlikely to create a holdings RNS (unless to an existing major shareholder close to a trigger level) so all in all I'm not sure the evidence is conclusive that Diggle holds them is correct.
Don't forget D Evans held (or holds) 9M shares so even if he had bought the PI shares he'd be nowhere near notifiable.
So all in all I reckon the problem is possibly to do with semantics in the RNS. Maybe someone would like to ask Scancell if they think it worth pursuing (which I don't).
Otherwise, for what it's worth, I received a notification of a filing at Companies House this evening for both Scancell and Zakari. Talk about excited..... only to find it was a simple housekeeping notification! It did get me going for a few minutes though.
AIMO