London Stock Exchange Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (7284F)

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RNS Number : 7284F

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

19 May 2017

London Stock Exchange Group plc

Transaction in Own Shares

London Stock Exchange Group plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased through Barclays Capital Securities Limited, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 6 79/86 pence each ("Shares") on the London Stock Exchange as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2017:

 
 Date of purchase:   19 May 2017 
 Number of Shares 
  purchased:          669 Shares 
 Highest price         3450.0000 
  paid per Share:          pence 
 Lowest price paid     3443.0000 
  per Share:               pence 
 Average price         3447.2048 
  paid per Share:          pence 
 

The Company intends to hold the purchased Shares in treasury.

The total number of Shares held in treasury by the Company following the above purchases is 1,700,092. The Company has 348,742,690 Shares in issue excluding such treasury shares.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains detailed information about the individual purchases made by Barclays Capital Securities Limited on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

For further information, please contact:

Enquiries

Gavin Sullivan / Lucie Holloway / Ramesh Chhabra

   London Stock Exchange Group plc Press Office                                  [phone] 

Paul Froud

   London Stock Exchange Group plc Investor Relations                     [phone] 

Schedule of Purchases

   Shares purchased:           London Stock Exchange Group plc (ISIN CODE: GB00B0SWJX34) 
   Date of purchases:          19 May 2017 
   Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited 

Aggregate information:

 
         Venue            Volume-weighted   Aggregated volume 
                           average price, 
                               pence 
-----------------------  ----------------  ------------------ 
 London Stock Exchange          3447.2048                 669 
-----------------------  ----------------  ------------------ 
 

Individual transactions:

 
    Number of      Transaction  Time of transaction      Trading venue 
 shares purchased     price 
                    (pence per 
                      share) 
       20           3,444.00         08:09:40        London Stock Exchange 
       100          3,443.00         08:10:14        London Stock Exchange 
       55           3,443.00         08:10:14        London Stock Exchange 
       88           3,445.00         08:14:56        London Stock Exchange 
       88           3,450.00         08:20:45        London Stock Exchange 
       93           3,450.00         08:59:04        London Stock Exchange 
       150          3,449.00         08:59:21        London Stock Exchange 
       75           3,449.00         08:59:21        London Stock Exchange 
 

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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