Director/PDMR Shareholding

Robert Walters plc

Notification of Interests

The Robert Walters Employee Benefit Trust ('EBT') has purchased a total of 238,470 ordinary shares on 25 May 2010 at a price of 208 pence per share. The shares held in the EBT are intended to be used to satisfy future awards made under the Company's Performance Share Plan, Executive Share Option Scheme and Sharesave Scheme.

The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of Robert Walters plc and its subsidiaries and is registered in the name of EES Trustees International Ltd.

The Executive Directors of Robert Walters plc are included as potential beneficiaries under the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares and the dealings thereof.

Following these transactions, the EBT holds 8,371,357 ordinary shares on which dividends are waived and are treated as non dilutive.