Robert Walters Regulatory News (RWA)

12 Jun 2007 07:00

Robert Walters PLC11 June 2007 Robert Walters plc ("Robert Walters" or "the company") Directors Shareholding On 11 June 2007, as detailed below Directors of the Company (i) exercised Awards under the Robert Walters long term incentive plan ('LTIP')over 1,019,576 shares held in the Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust and sold419,285 ordinary shares of £0.20 each at a price of £3.60 per share: Director Number of awards exercised Exercise price Number of shares sold Awards exercised as a % of issued share capital Robert Walters 569,923 £3.60 234,372 0.66% Giles Daubeney 449,653 £3.60 184,913 0.52% (ii) exercised Options under the Robert Walters Executive Share Option Scheme,resulting in an issue of 625,000 new ordinary shares of £0.20 each, and sold605,290 at a price of £3.60 per share; and held the balance: Director Number of options exercised Exercise price Number of shares sold Options exercised as a % of issued share capital Robert Walters 600,000 £3.60 324,730 0.70% Giles Daubeney 500,000 £3.60 270,608 0.58% Alan Bannatyne 26,852 £3.60 9,952 0.03% In each case the proceeds of sale will be used solely to satisfy the income taxliabilities and dealing costs arising from the exercise of the Awards & Options. Following these transactions, these Directors holdings in the Company are shownbelow:Director Number of shares held % of issued share capital Share options LTIP awards Robert Walters 1,172,553 1.36% 3,763,250 609,235 Giles Daubeney 1,016,091 1.18% 1,017,250 481,431 Alan Bannatyne 45,079 0.05% 40,048 0 (iii) The company today bought back 1,666,667 shares of which 766,299 are to beheld in Treasury and 900,368 are to be cancelled. This announcement is made in accordance with DR3.1.4 R This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange