Worldpay Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (8751M)

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RNS Number : 8751M

Worldpay Group PLC

18 October 2016

18 October 2016

Worldpay Group plc (the "Company")

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY DIRECTORS/PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ("PDMRs")

The Company announces that a number of PDMRs and a Person Closely Associated with one of them sold an aggregate of 21,884,664 ordinary shares of 3 pence each (the "Shares") in the market on 17 October 2016, at an average price of 285.0285 pence per Share.

The sale of shares follows the anniversary on 16 October 2016 of the IPO of the Company and the expiry of the first-year lock-up period described in the Prospectus published by the Company on 13 October 2015 prior to the Company's Initial Public Offering on 16 October 2015.

Following the sale of the shares, the PDMRs continue to hold significant interests in the share capital of the Company, including fully vested shares subject to lock-up periods of up to a further two years and, other than the non-executive Directors, conditional shares awarded under the Transitional Award Plan, the Performance Share Plan and the Save As You Earn Plan. The PDMR's retained interests in fully vested shares in the Company (the value of which is also expressed as a percentage of base salary for the Executive Directors) are shown in the tables below:

 
 Executive        No of shares   No of fully       Value of shares 
  Directors*       sold           vested shares     held as a percentage 
                                  held following    of salary** 
                                  the sale 
---------------  -------------  ----------------  ---------------------- 
 Philip Jansen    3,754,044      7,508,089         2,553% 
---------------  -------------  ----------------  ---------------------- 
 Ron Kalifa       1,858,000      5,735,022         3,489% 
---------------  -------------  ----------------  ---------------------- 
 Rick Medlock     200,000        5,402,920         3,123% 
---------------  -------------  ----------------  ---------------------- 
 
 
 Non-executive      No of shares sold   No of shares held 
  Directors                              following the sale 
-----------------  ------------------  -------------------- 
 John Allan         743,511             1,908,614 
-----------------  ------------------  -------------------- 
 Martin Scicluna    192,137             303,671 
-----------------  ------------------  -------------------- 
 
 
 Other PDMRs*        No of shares sold   No of fully vested 
                                          shares held following 
                                          the sale 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Andy Doyle          879,616             1,759,233 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Mark Edwards        874,362             1,748,724 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Shane Happach***    2,479,151           1,858,780 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Dave Hobday         1,507,808           3,015,616 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Mark Kimber         1,566,021           3,132,043 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Floris de Kort      620,589             1,241,179 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 Ruth Prior          387,638             775,279 
------------------  ------------------  ----------------------- 
 

*The Executive Directors and other PDMRs also hold conditional interests in the Transitional Award Plan, the Performance Share Plan and the All-Employee SAYE Plan described in the Company's Remuneration Report, which can be found at http://investors.worldpay.com/ The Interests of the Executive Directors in those conditional awards are as follows:

 
 Executive        TAP award   PSP award   SAYE award   Total 
  Director 
---------------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 Philip Jansen    833,333     602,409     7,531        1,443,273 
---------------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 Ron Kalifa       416,666     252,480     7,531          676,677 
---------------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 Rick Medlock     416,666     265,768     7,531         689,965 
---------------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 

**Based on a share price of 289p, being the closing price on 17 October 2016.

***the shares shown against Shane Happach's name are/were held by Ares Ltd, a Person Closely Associated with Shane Happach, a PDMR of the Company. Mr Happach has/had no beneficial interest in the shares sold by Ares Ltd, the proceeds of the sale of those shares or the retained shares shown against his name.

 
 Enquiries: 
 
 Investor relations: 
  Charles King, Investor       Tel: +44 (0) 
  Relations Director           203 664 6171 
  Media:                       Tel: +44 (0) 
  Claire Hardy, Head of        203 664 4902 
  External Communications      Tel: +44 (0) 
  James Murgatroyd / Andrew    207 251 3801 
  Hughes, Finsbury 
 

Group Company Secretary:

   Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary              Tel: [phone] 

About Worldpay Group plc

Worldpay (LSE: WPG) is a leader in global payments. We provide an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services to over 400,000 customers, enabling their businesses to grow and prosper. We manage the increasing complexity of the payments landscape for our customers, allowing them to accept the widest range of payment types around the world. Using our network and technology, we are able to process payments from geographies covering 99% of global GDP, across 146 countries and 126 currencies. We help our customers to accept more than 300 different payment types. http://investors.worldpay.com/

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