Directorate Change

12 Oct 2007 07:00

BEGBIES TRAYNOR GROUP PLC ("Begbies" or the "Company")

12th October 2007DIRECTORS' APPOINTMENTS

The Company is pleased to announce that, at the AGM to be held later today, proposals will be put to shareholders to approve the appointments of Mr John Gittins and Mr John May to the Board of Directors of the Company.

Mr John Gittins, ACA, will be proposed as Finance Director to the Company. Mr Gittins, a chartered accountant, was most recently finance director of Vertex Data Science Limited, until recently a wholly owned subsidiary of United Utilities, between 1999 and 2007. Prior to that, in 1993, he joined Spring Group plc a fully listed UK Support Services company, where he was the Group Finance Director.

Mr Graham McInnes, who has been the Finance Director since the Company joined AIM in September 2004, will remain on the board but will assume the new role of Corporate Development Director.

Mr Geoffrey Hill, who is currently a Non-Executive Director, will also become an Executive Director of the Company with responsibility for developing services to the accountancy profession

Mr John May will be proposed as a Non Executive Director. Mr May is also an Executive Director of Caledonia Investments plc. He joined Caledonia in 2003 and previously worked for the Hambros Group for over 20 years until 1999, where he was an executive director of Hambros Bank and joint managing director of Hambro Countrywide, after which he ran his own private equity investment and consultancy business.

Ric Traynor, Chairman, said "Subject to shareholder approval, we will be delighted to welcome both John May and John Gittins to the board of Begbies. We are confident that the wealth of experience which they can bring will further enhance our business both strategically and commercially. Graham McInnes' move, to concentrate his considerable knowledge on Corporate Development will, we believe, create opportunities for Begbies to continue to grow the range of services we can offer to our clients."

The information required by Rule 17 Schedule 2g of the AIM Rules regarding Messrs Gittins and May is given below:

(i) John Anthony Gittins, aged 47

(ii) detailed below are the companies and partnerships of which Mr Gittins has been a director or partner during the past five years, indicating where they are current:

Vertex Data Science LimitedVertex Financial Services Holdings LimitedMarlborough Stirling UK LimitedExchange FS LimitedCrisp Computing LimitedVertex Administration LimitedOtter Risk Solutions LimitedVertex Life and Pensions LimitedVertex Financial Services LimitedThe Exchange Holdings LimitedExchange FS International Holdings LimitedFS Connections UK LimitedExchange FS International AGVertex Customer Management LimitedFirst Revenue Assurance UK LimitedVertex India LimitedJ M Deane 1999 Settlement Trustees LimitedIngleby (1045) LimitedUnited Utilities (ESPS) Pensions Trustee Limited

There is no other information to be disclosed under items (iii) to (viii) of Schedule 2g.

(i) John Michael May, aged 52

(ii) detailed below are the companies and partnerships of which Mr May has been a director or partner during the past five years, indicating where they are current:

Apax Summer LLP (Current)Catapult Venture Managers Limited (Current)Kingdom Group Holdings (Current)Hillhouse Nexus Limited (Current)Caledonia Investments plc (Current)Oval Limited (Current)British Empire Securities and General PLC (Current)Satellite Information Services (Holdings) Limited (Current)Brentwood School Enterprises (Current)Cameron Taylor Group LimitedCovenant Healthcare LimitedCrescent Capital NI LimitedFTV Group plcHamptons International Mortgages LimitedIncisive Media plcLaurence King Publishing LimitedKingdom Holdings Limited (Hong Kong)Marketform Group LimitedRadio Investments LimitedSA Vendome Company (France)Seven Publishing LimitedTempus Acquisition LimitedTempus Holdco LimitedVianet Group plcWallem Group Limited (Cayman Islands)

There is no other information to be disclosed under items (iii) to (viii) of Schedule 2g

For further information:

Ric Traynor BegbiesTraynor Group PLC 0161 837 1700

Guy Peters Shore Capital & Corporate Limited 0207 408 4090