Burford Capital Limited Completed Share Purchase by Employee Benefit Trust (9808M)

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Burford Capital Limited

27 September 2021

27 September 2021

COMPLETED PURCHASE OF SHARES BY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST

Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, today announces that it was notified by the Trustee of the Burford Capital Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") that it has completed the purchase in the market of 234,260 of Burford's Ordinary Shares in accordance with the Company's irrevocable instruction . Details of the completed purchases are as follows:

 
 Date             Stock Exchange    Number of Ordinary Shares   Average Price Paid 
                                     Acquired                    per Share 
---------------  ----------------  --------------------------  ------------------- 
 September 17, 
  2021            LSE               62,000                      790.372 
 September 20, 
  2021            LSE               62,000                      785.403 
 September 21, 
  2021            LSE               62,000                      793.611 
 September 22, 
  2021            LSE               16,558                      803.874 
 September 23, 
  2021            LSE               12,912                      804.994 
 September 24, 
  2021            LSE               18,790                      809.914 
---------------  ----------------  --------------------------  ------------------- 
 

The weighted average price of the purchases at the London Stock Exchange was 793.242p per share.

As previously announced, the purchased shares will be held by the Trustee in the Company's EBT and used to satisfy vested awards made under Burford's Long Term Incentive Plan. The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of the employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.

For further information, please contact:

 
   Burford Capital Limited 
   Robert Bailhache, Head of Investor Relations,          [phone] 
    EMEA and Asia - email                                  2023 
   Jim Ballan, Head of Investor Relations, Americas       +1 (646) 793 
    - email                                                9176 
 
   Numis Securities Limited - NOMAD and Joint             [phone] 
    Broker                                                 1000 
   Kevin Cruickshank (NOMAD) 
   Charlie Farquhar / Jonathan Abbott (Joint Broker) 
 
                                                          [phone] 
   Jefferies International Limited - Joint Broker          8000 
   Graham Davidson 
   Tony White 
 
 

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management , asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore and Sydney.

For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com .

This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other securities of Burford.

This release does not constitute an offer of any Burford fund. Burford Capital Investment Management LLC ("BCIM"), which acts as the fund manager of all Burford funds, is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The information provided herein is for informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The information contained herein is not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities (including, without limitation, interests or shares in the funds). Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by means of a final confidential Private Placement Memorandum and other offering documents.

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