Last checked at 7 Apr 2022 09:44
Date: | 7 April 2022 |
On behalf of: | First Property Group plc ("First Property", "the Company" or the "Group") |
Embargoed: | Immediate Release |
First Property Group plc
Exercise of share options and total voting rights
First Property Group plc (AIM: FPO), the award winning property fund manager and investor with operations in the UK and Central Europe, was notified on 5 April 2022 that Jeremy Barkes, a director of First Property Asset Management Ltd and person discharging managerial responsibility, has exercised options over 500,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").
These options were granted pursuant to the First Property Group share option scheme at an exercise price of 11.50 pence per Ordinary Share. In order to meet tax obligations a total of 180,000 were sold at 34.5 pence per Ordinary Share. Following this exercise, the total number of shares held by Jeremy Barkes will be 1,583,606.
Following these sales the total number of outstanding share options over Ordinary Shares has reduced to 2,110,000.
In order to exercise these options, 500,000 Ordinary Shares were sold by the Company from Treasury, resulting in the number of Ordinary Shares in Treasury reducing to 5,718,783.
Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of the new Ordinary Shares ("Admission"). The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares in issue and Admission is expected to occur on 11 April 2022. Following Admission the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights will increase to 110,882,332. Under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency rules the figure of 110,882,332 Ordinary Shares should be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest, or a change in their interest, in the Ordinary Share capital of First Property Group plc.
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For further information please contact:
First Property Group plc | Tel: +44 (20) 7340 0270 |
Ben Habib (Chief Executive Officer) Laura James (Group Finance Director) Jeremy Barkes (Director, Business Development) | www.fprop.com investor.relations@fprop.com |
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Arden Partners (NOMAD & Broker) | Tel: + 44 (20) 7614 5900 |
John Llewellyn-Lloyd Antonio Bossi |
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Newgate Communications (PR) | Tel: +44 (20) 3757 6880 |
Robin Tozer / Richard Bicknell / Max Richardson | firstproperty@secnewgate.co.uk |
Notes to Investors and Editors:
First Property Group plc is an award-winning property fund manager and investor with operations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Around one third of the shares in the Company are owned by management and their families.
Its focus is on higher yielding commercial property with sustainable cash flows. The company is flexible and takes an active approach to asset management. Its earnings are derived from:
Listed on AIM the Company has offices in London, Warsaw and Bucharest. Further information about the Company and its products can be found at: www.fprop.com.
Notification 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 | |||||||||
a) | Name | Jeremy Barkes | ||||||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||||||
a) | Position/status | Director, First Property Asset Management Ltd | ||||||||
b) | Is this an initial notification or an amendment to a prior notification? | Initial notification | ||||||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||||||
a) | Name | First Property Group plc | ||||||||
b) | LEI | 213800O4C71RSRQVHH77 | ||||||||
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| 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 1p
GB0004109889 | ||||||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of Options and Disposal of Ordinary Shares | ||||||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
| Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares
Disposal of Ordinary Shares
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d)
| Aggregated information (if any)
- Aggregated volume
- Price | Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares Aggregate volume: 500,000 Aggregate Price: 11.5p
Disposal of Ordinary Shares Aggregate volume: 180,000 Aggregate Price: 34.5p | ||||||||
e) | Date of transaction | 05 April 2022 | ||||||||
f) | Place of the transaction | AIMX | ||||||||