15 May 2018 17:13
15 May 2018
Cenkos Securities plc
("Cenkos" or the "Company")
Grant of Options under SAYE Scheme and Director/PDMR Shareholdings
Cenkos Securities plc announces that as part of the Company's HMRC approved Save As You Earn ("SAYE") scheme the following options to subscribe for ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have today been granted.
Under the Company's 2018 SAYE scheme (the "2018 SAYE Scheme"), which was made available to all Cenkos employees, a total of 56 employees of the Company, including three directors of the Company and one of the Company's 'persons discharging managerial responsibility' (a "PDMR"), have applied to participate in the 2018 SAYE Scheme resulting in the grant of options to subscribe for an aggregate of 777,218 Ordinary Shares in the Company (the "2018 SAYE Options") today.
The SAYE Options have an exercise price, calculated in accordance with the rules of the SAYE Scheme, of 85.33 pence per SAYE Option (representing a 20% discount to the average closing mid-market price per Ordinary Share on 19, 20 and 23 April 2018, being the three days prior to the invitation to participate in the SAYE Scheme being made). Subject to the rules of the 2018 SAYE Scheme participants will be able to exercise their 2018 SAYE Options within six-month commencing from 1 June 2021.
Pursuant to the 2018 SAYE Scheme, the following Directors and PDMRs of the Company applied to participate in the 2018 SAYE Scheme and have been granted 2018 SAYE Options in the amounts shown below.
2018 SAYE Options granted | |
Director | |
Anthony Hotson, Chief Executive Officer | 21,094 |
Paul Hodges, Executive Director | 21,094 |
Philip Anderson, Finance Director | 21,094 |
PDMR | |
Julian Morse, Head of Growth Companies | 21,094 |
The notifications below, made in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details in relation to the grant of 2018 SAYE Options to the Directors/PDMR.
Enquiries:
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Anthony Hotson Chief Executive Officer Cenkos Securities plc
| +44 20 7397 8900 |
Dr Azhic Basirov / David Jones / Ben Jeynes Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance Limited
| +44 20 7131 4000 |
Nick Lovering Joint Broker Whitman Howard Limited
| +44 20 7659 1224 |
David Rydell Buchanan Communications
| +44 20 7466 5066 |
NOTIFICATIONS AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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a)
| Name
| Anthony Hotson
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2
| Reason for the notification
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a)
| Position/status
| PDMR (Chief Executive Officer) | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Cenkos Securities plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800ALVRC52VN3I821
| |||
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 | Ordinary shares of 1p each | |||
Identification code | GB00B1FLHR07 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options to subscribe for new ordinary shares under the Company's SAYE scheme | |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
Option price 85.33 pence | 21,094 | ||||
d)
| Aggregated information | n/a - single transaction | |||
- Aggregated volume | |||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 15 May 2018 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | |||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Paul Hodges
| |||
2
| Reason for the notification
| ||||
a)
| Position/status
| PDMR (Executive Director) | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Cenkos Securities plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800ALVRC52VN3I821
| |||
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 | Ordinary shares of 1p each | |||
Identification code | GB00B1FLHR07 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options to subscribe for new ordinary shares under the Company's SAYE scheme | |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
Option price 85.33 pence | 21,094 | ||||
d)
| Aggregated information | n/a - single transaction | |||
- Aggregated volume | |||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 15 May 2018 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | |||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Philip Anderson
| |||
2
| Reason for the notification
| ||||
a)
| Position/status
| PDMR (Finance Director) | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Cenkos Securities plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800ALVRC52VN3I821
| |||
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 | Ordinary shares of 1p each | |||
Identification code | GB00B1FLHR07 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options to subscribe for new ordinary shares under the Company's SAYE scheme | |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
Option price 85.33 pence | 21,094 | ||||
d)
| Aggregated information | n/a - single transaction | |||
- Aggregated volume | |||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 15 May 2018 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | |||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Julian Morse
| |||
2
| Reason for the notification
| ||||
a)
| Position/status
| PDMR (Head of Growth Companies) | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Cenkos Securities plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800ALVRC52VN3I821
| |||
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 | Ordinary shares of 1p each | |||
Identification code | GB00B1FLHR07 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options to subscribe for new ordinary shares under the Company's SAYE scheme | |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
Option price 85.33 pence | 21,094 | ||||
d)
| Aggregated information | n/a - single transaction | |||
- Aggregated volume | |||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 15 May 2018 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | |||