14 Jul 2021 07:00
14 July 2021
Diurnal Group plc
("Diurnal" or the "Company")
Director Dealings
Diurnal Group plc (AIM: DNL), the specialty pharmaceutical company targeting patient needs in chronic endocrine (hormonal) diseases, announces the following Director's dealing:
Martin Whitaker, Chief Executive Officer, sold 80,612 Ordinary Shares at a price of 63 pence per Ordinary Share in order to fund a portion of his personal tax liability arising from the vesting of his deferred bonus award of 376,230 Ordinary Shares, as detailed in the RNS announcement dated 9 July 2021. Following the sale of shares the total beneficial interest of Martin Whitaker and his connected parties is 899,441 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.53% of the total voting rights.
Richard Bungay, Chief Financial Officer, sold 105,798 Ordinary Shares at a price of 63 pence per Ordinary Share in order to fund his personal tax liability arising from the vesting of his deferred bonus award of 225,738 Ordinary Shares, as detailed in the RNS announcement dated 9 July 2021. Following the sale of shares the total beneficial interest of Richard Bungay is 234,192 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.14% of the total voting rights.
Details of the full notifications received by the Company are set out below:
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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a)
| Name
| Martin Whitaker | |||
2
| Reason for the notification
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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
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a)
| Name
| Diurnal Group plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800I2HNUNZN1LDH29 | |||
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
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a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares of 5 pence each in Diurnal Group plc | |||
Identification code | GB00BDB6Q760 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Sale of ordinary shares
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c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
63 pence | 80,612 |
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d)
| Aggregated information | ||||
- Aggregated volume | As above | ||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 13 July 2021 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction
| XLON | |||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Richard Bungay | |||
2
| Reason for the notification
| ||||
a)
| Position/status
| Chief Financial Officer | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Diurnal Group plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800I2HNUNZN1LDH29 | |||
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 5 pence each in Diurnal Group plc | |||
Identification code | GB00BDB6Q760 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Sale of ordinary shares
| |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
63 pence | 105,798 |
| |||
d)
| Aggregated information | ||||
- Aggregated volume | As above | ||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 13 July 2021 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction
| XLON | |||
For further information, please visit www.diurnal.co.uk or contact: | |
Diurnal Group plc | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
Martin Whitaker, Chief Executive Officer | |
Richard Bungay, Chief Financial Officer | |
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nominated Adviser and Sole Broker) | +44 (0) 20 7886 2500 |
Corporate Finance: Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl | |
Corporate Broking: Rupert Dearden | |
FTI Consulting (Media and Investor Relations) | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
Simon Conway | |
Victoria Foster Mitchell | |
Alex Davis | |
Notes to Editors
About Diurnal Group plc
Diurnal Group plc is a European, UK-headquartered, specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing hormone therapeutics to aid lifelong treatment for rare and chronic endocrine conditions, including congenital adrenal hyperplasia, adrenal insufficiency, hypogonadism and hypothyroidism. Its expertise and innovative research activities focus on circadian-based endocrinology to yield novel product candidates in the rare and chronic endocrine disease arena.
For further information about Diurnal, please visit www.diurnal.co.uk
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