Advance Energy PLC Grant of Share Options (3831S)

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RNS Number : 3831S

Advance Energy PLC

08 July 2020

8 July 2020

Advance Energy plc

("Advance" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

Advance Energy plc (AIM: ADV), the upstream oil and gas company focussed on acquiring value accretive non-operated interests in established hydrocarbon projects, announces it has today granted share options ("Options") to subscribe for 25,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company.

The Options have been granted to recently appointed Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director Stephen West under an unapproved scheme. The Options have an exercise price of 0.3 pence per share, being a 66.7 per cent premium to the closing price immediately prior to the date of grant, with 50% of the Options vesting on the date of grant and the remaining 50% of the Options vesting on 1 February 2021. Vesting of the Options is subject to the option holder providing continuous service during the vesting period and there are no other performance conditions attached to the Options.

Following this grant of the Options, Mr West will be interested in 3,799,101 ordinary shares and 25,000,000 options in the Company.

Enquiries:

Advance Energy plc

   Leslie Peterkin (CEO) / Stephen West (CFO)          [phone] 

Buchanan (Public Relations)

   Ben Romney / Kelsey Traynor                                    [phone] 

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nominated Adviser)

   Roland Cornish / James Biddle                                    [phone] 

Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker)

   Colin Rowbury                                                                   [phone] 

Optiva Securities Limited (Joint Broker)

   Christian Dennis                                                               [phone] 
   For further information, please visit www.advanceplc.com   and @advanceplc on Twitter 

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This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR").

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail:

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

 
 1     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
        / person closely associated 
 a)    Name                         Stephen West 
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 2     Reason for the notification 
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 a)    Position/status              CFO & Executive Director 
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 b)    Initial notification         Initial 
        /Amendment 
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 3     Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
        auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)    Name                         Advance Energy plc 
      ---------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)    LEI                          213800TZWOYU7UFZ5V63 
      ---------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 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           Ordinary shares of nil par value 
        financial instrument, 
        type of instrument           ISIN: IM00BZ7PNY71 
        Identification code 
      ---------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)    Nature of the transaction    Grant of share options 
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 c)    Price(s) and volume(s)       Price(s)                      Volume(s) 
      ---------------------------  -----------------------------  ---------- 
   Exercise price of 0.3 pence 
    per share                                                     25,000,000 
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 d     Aggregated information       N/A - single transaction 
        - Aggregated volume 
        - Price 
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 e)    Date of the transactions     8 July 2020 
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 f)    Place of the transactions    Outside a trading venue 
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