Blue Prism Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (9867V)

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RNS Number : 9867V

Blue Prism Group PLC

27 July 2018

27 July 2018

Blue Prism Group plc

("Blue Prism" or the "Group")

DIRECTOR / PDMR SHAREHOLDING

Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a global leader in Robotic Process Automation ("RPA"), announces that the Group's CEO, Alastair Bathgate, has sold 410,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares"), representing approximately 0.6 per cent of the issued share capital of Blue Prism at a price of 1844 pence per share.

Following this sale, Alastair Bathgate retains an interest in 4,653,224 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 7.0 per cent of Blue Prism's issued share capital.

The Group has been advised that Alastair Bathgate has no current intention to make any further sales of Ordinary Shares.

 
 1.     Details of the person discharging managerial 
         responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 (a)    Name                          Alastair Bathgate 
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 2.     Reason for the notification 
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 (a)    Position/status               Chief Executive Officer 
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 (b)    Initial notification/         Initial notification 
         Amendment 
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 3.     Details of the issuer 
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 (a)    Name                          BLUE PRISM GROUP PLC 
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 (b)    LEI                           2138006DQE9FNUW8KO83 
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 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                   Ordinary shares of GBP0.01 
         of the Financial              each 
         Instrument 
-----  ----------------------------  ----------------------------- 
 (b)    Identification                GB00BYQ0HV16 
         code of the 
         Financial Instrument 
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 (c)    Nature of the                 Sale of shares 
         transaction 
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 (d)    Price(s) and                  Price(s)       Volume(s) 
         volume(s) 
                                     -------------  -------------- 
                                      1844p          410,000 
                                     -------------  -------------- 
 
 (e)    Aggregated information 
          *    Aggregated volume        410,000 shares 
 
                                        1844p per share 
         - Price 
-----  ----------------------------  ----------------------------- 
 (f)    Date of the                   26 July 2018 
         transaction 
-----  ----------------------------  ----------------------------- 
 (g)    Place of the                  London Stock Exchange 
         transaction 
-----  ----------------------------  ----------------------------- 
 

For further information please contact:

 
 Blue Prism Group plc                  via FTI Consulting 
  Alastair Bathgate, Chief Executive 
  Officer 
  Ijoma Maluza, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
 Investec Bank plc                     Tel: [phone] 
  Andrew Pinder                         5970 
  Carlton Nelson 
  Sebastian Lawrence 
 FTI Consulting                        Tel: [phone] 
  Matt Dixon                            1000 
  Dwight Burden 
 

About Blue Prism

Blue Prism Group plc ("Blue Prism" or the "Group"), is a UK-headquartered global software company.

As the pioneer, innovator and a market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world's most successful Digital Workforce. The company's Digital Workers (software robots) provide business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate repetitive administrative tasks, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.

Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism robots from renowned companies including Aegon, BNY Mellon, Coca-Cola, Commerzbank, IBM, ING, Maersk, Nokia, Nordea, Procter & Gamble, Raiffeisen Bank, Siemens, Westpac and Zurich. As at 30 April 2018, Blue Prism had 271 employees based out of offices in Newton le Willows and London (UK), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), Bangalore (India), Austin, Miami, Chicago, New York and San Francisco (US), Munich (Germany), Paris (France) and Singapore

For more information visit www.blueprism.com and follow the Group on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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