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Award of Share Options

24 Mar 2015 07:00

RNS Number : 2416I
Minds + Machines Group Limited
24 March 2015
 



For immediate release

24 March 2015

 

Minds + Machines Group Limited

("MMX", the "Company" or "Group")

Award of Share Options

 

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that the board of directors of MMX (the "Board") has today agreed to award in aggregate 36,950,000 new options over ordinary shares to directors and officers of the Company. The option grants are issued under the Company's Amended 2012 Stock Plan.

The options have an exercise price of 8.49 pence per Ordinary Share, being the higher of the 30 day volume weighted average on the date immediately prior to the recommendation of the remuneration committee and the date of formal grant by the Board. The closing Ordinary Share price as at 23 March 2015 was 8.25 pence. The award represents 4.4 per cent. of the current issued share capital of 835,969,485 Ordinary Shares. Options granted to directors of the Company are as follows:

 

 

 

 

Director

Number of new options over Ordinary Shares

Option exercise price per Ordinary Share

 

 

Vested options

 

 

 

Expiry date

Fred Krueger

2,130,000

9.34p

355,000

12/03/2025

8,370,000

8.49p

1,395,000

12/03/2025

Antony Van Couvering

10,500,000

8.49p

1,750,000

12/03/2025

Michael Salazar

7,250,000

8.49p

1,208,333

12/03/2025

Caspar Veltheim

2,200,000

8.49p

366,667

12/03/2025

Elliot Noss

750,000

8.49p

125,000

12/03/2025

Keith Teare

 

750,000

8.49p

125,000

12/03/2025

Total

31,950,000

n.a.

5,325,000

n.a.

 

In aggregate 6,158,333 of the options vest immediately and the balance vests in three monthly instalments at the rate equivalent of one twelfth of the grant (being 3,079,167 options in aggregate per three month period) subject to the participant continuing to be an employee and / or director at the vesting date.

 

In conjunction with the options grants, the Board approved: an increase in the number of ordinary shares underlying and issuable pursuant to its Amended 2012 Stock Plan by 15,000,000 with a corresponding reduction to the number of ordinary shares underlying and issuable under its Restricted Stock Unit Plan by an equivalent amount. In total both plans continue to account for 12.5% of the Company's outstanding shares as of the time of re-admission in early 2014.

 

Following the grant of the new options, there is in aggregate a total of 76,312,500 outstanding options (including awards under the RSU plan) representing 9.13 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.

Further Information:

 

Minds + Machines Group Limited

Antony Van Couvering Tel: +1 310 452-1491

 

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad) Tel: +44(0)20 7628 3396

Roland Cornish / Michael Cornish

 

N+1 Singer (Broker)

Shaun Dobson/Ben Wright Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 3000

 

gth media relations

Toby Hall Tel: +44(0)20 7822 7493 / +44 7713 341072

 

For further information, please go to http://investors.mindsandmachines.com

 

About Minds + Machines

Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX) is a leading owner and operator of new generic Top Level Domains ("gTLDs"), and provides registry services to a range of high-profile clients. The Group also provides domain name services to consumers through its wholly owned registrar operations in the US and Europe. For more information on Minds + Machines and its services and companies within the Group, please go to http://investors.mindsandmachines.com.

 

ENDS

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
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