4 Apr 2013 17:04
Regency Mines Plc
("Regency" or the "Company")
Issue of Shares under Share Incentive Plan and Directors' Dealings
4 April 2013
Regency Mines Plc ("Regency" or the "Company"), the mining exploration and mineral investment company with interests in nickel and other minerals in Western Australia, Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Pakistan, announces that on 3 April 2013 the Board of Directors approved the issue of ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") for the 2012/13 tax year as agreed in the Trustees meeting held on 2 April 2013.
Under the terms of the SIP, once employees have worked for the Company for three months, they may sign up to both the Free Share and Partnership Share Agreement.
a) Free Share Agreement - Share Award
Under the Free Share Agreement, employees may be awarded up to £3,000 worth of Ordinary Shares in the Company in any one tax year. As Free Shares have been awarded to the Company's existing employees during the 2012/13 tax year already (and previously announced on 8 August 2012), only new employees have been awarded additional shares.
In this case 204,081 pro-rata Free Shares have been awarded with reference to the mid-market closing price of 0.49p on 28 March 2013.
b) Partnership Share Agreement - Share Award
In addition, employees may purchase up to £1,500 (or up to a maximum of 10% of their salary, whichever is the lower) worth of Shares (the "Partnership Shares") in any one tax year. The Company will match these shares on a 2:1 basis (the "Matching Shares"). The Partnership and the Matching Shares are awarded with reference to the lower of the mid-market closing price at the beginning or at the end of the accumulation period.
Therefore, 5,228,561 Partnership Shares and 10,457,122 Matching Shares (being 15,685,683 Shares in aggregate) have been awarded with reference to the mid-market closing price of 0.49p on 28 March 2013, which is the end of the accumulation period for the 2012/13 tax year. The Directors have participated in this award and the above number includes such participation, further details of which are set out below.
Consequently 204,081 Shares and 15,685,683 Shares, being a total of 15,889,764 shares have been awarded under the SIP. All such shares will be held by the SIP Trustees and the Free Shares and Matching Shares cannot be released to participants until five years after the date of the award, except in specific circumstances.
The Company will however only be required to issue 15,471,777 new shares as the SIP Trustees had held in trust certain shares which had previously been issued and admitted to trading and retained in a pool following employee departures before vesting and now available for transfer by said Trustees.
Directors' Participation
The Directors have participated in the Partnership Share Agreement and the calculations in paragraph b above take this into account.
In respect of the 2012/2013 tax year, each Director has purchased 306,122 Partnership Shares and been awarded 612,244 Matching Shares which have been included in the calculations above.
As a result of such participation, the Directors' current shareholdings in the Company, is set out in the table below:
Directors | Ordinary Shares in the Company | % of Issued Share Capital | ||
Direct | Indirect* | Total | ||
Andrew R M Bell | 35,795,518 | 1,404,534 | 37,200,052 | 3.62% |
Edmund Sr Bugnosen | 200,000 | 1,404,534 | 1,604,534 | 0.16% |
Scott C Kaintz | 421,053 | 1,404,534 | 1,825,587 | 0.18% |
Julian M E Lee | - | 7,012,391 | 7,012,391 | 0.68% |
John Watkins | 4,150,000 | 1,404,534 | 5,554,534 | 0.54% |
* Each Director indirectly holds 1,404,534 shares held by the Share Incentive Plan Trustees. In addition, Julian M E Lee holds 5,607,857 shares through HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited.
Admission to trading on AIM and Total Voting Rights
Application is being made to AIM for 15,471,777 new Ordinary Shares allotted in relation to the SIP for 2012/13 tax year to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission of the 15,471,777 new Ordinary Shares is expected on 11 April 2013.
Following the issue of the 15,471,777 new Ordinary Shares the issued share capital of the Company consists of 1,027,871,383 ordinary shares of 0.1p each with voting rights. No Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury.
The above figure of 1,027,871,383 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information contact:
Andrew Bell020 7402 4580 or 07766 474849 Chairman Regency Mines plc
Sandra Spencer 020 7402 4580 or 07757 660 798 Investor Relations Regency Mines plc
Gerry Beaney / Daniela Amihood 020 7383 5100 NOMAD Grant Thornton Corp Finance
Nick Emerson 01483 413500 Broker Simple Investments Ltd