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Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited
Director/PDMR Shareholding
The Company announces that on 24 January 2018 Ioannis Papalekas, a director of the Company, through Zakiono Enterprises Limited (a company wholly owned by Mr Papalekas), sold 1,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of €9.445 per ordinary share. These shares were sold in order to satisfy investor demand. Mr Papalekas remains a significant and committed shareholder in the company with a holding of 24,129,187 ordinary shares, equivalent to 18.24 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital. The decision to sell these shares is in line with the objective of broadening the liquidity of the Company's ordinary shares, while increasing its free float, and specifically in response to the investor demand.
The Notification of Dealing Form provided in accordance with the requirements of MAR in relation to the transaction listed above is set out below:
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 | Company controlled by Ioannis Papalekas | ||||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||||
a) | Position/status | 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 | Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited | ||||||
b) | LEI | 213800R3E823B1UBIA81 | ||||||
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 no par value ISIN: GG00B979FD04 | ||||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of ordinary shares | ||||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
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e) | Date of the transaction | 24 January 2018 | ||||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange (XLON) | ||||||
For further information visit www.globalworth.com or contact:
Enquiries
Andrew Cox Tel: +44 20 3026 4027
Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Development
Jefferies (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7029 8000
Stuart Klein
Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7886 2500
Andrew Potts
Milbourne (Public Relations) Tel: +44 7903 802545
Tim Draper
About Globalworth / Note to Editors:
Globalworth is an AIM-listed real estate investment company active in Central and Eastern Europe, and has become the leading office investor in the Romanian real estate market. Globalworth acquires, develops and directly manages high-quality office and logistics/light-industrial real estate assets in prime locations, through which it benefits from a strong rental income profile from high quality tenants from around the globe. With approximately 70 professionals managing it, Globalworth's portfolio, as at 30 September 2017, was valued in excess of €1 billion, of which 90% is in income-producing assets and over 80% in the office sector.
Globalworth also owns approximately 72% of Griffin Premium R.E.. N.V. ("GPRE"). GPRE is a pure-play Polish real estate platform listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange that primarily owns high-quality office and mixed-use assets located in Warsaw and across a number of other major Polish cities, notably Wroclaw, Lodz, Krakow, Gdansk and Katowice. Its portfolio comprises nine office and three mixed-use (office and retail) properties, with a value of nearly €0.7 billion. For more information on GPRE please refer to http://www.griffin-premium.com/.