CentralNic Group PLC Directors' Dealings

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CentralNic Group PLC

17 January 2023

17 January 2023

CentralNic Group plc

Directors' Dealings

CentralNic Group plc (LSE:CNIC, "Company" or "CNIC") received notification on the 16 January 2023 from Kestrel Partners LLP ("Kestrel") that on the 13 January 2023 it purchased, on behalf of its discretionary client accounts, an aggregate of 14,184 ordinary shares of GBP0.001 each ("Shares") in the Company at an average price of GBP1.537622 per share

Mr Royde is a partner of, and holds a beneficial interest in, Kestrel. Mr Royde is also a shareholder in Kestrel Opportunities and is therefore deemed to have a beneficial interest in Kestrel Opportunities' entire legal holding in CNIC.

Following this transaction, Kestrel Opportunities holds (and consequently Mr Royde is deemed to have a beneficial interest in) 17,926,535 Shares in the Company, and other clients of Kestrel, in which Mr Royde has no beneficial interest hold 47,788,053 Shares in the Company.

On a combined basis, Kestrel indirectly holds voting rights over 65,714,588 Shares in the Company, which represents 22.93 per cent of the Company's issued share capital.

Kestrel's interest in the Shares in the Company is held through the following nominees:

 
 Holding     Nominee                                     No. of   % of issued share 
  type                                                   shares             capital 
             Bank of New York Nominees 
 Indirect     Ltd                                    17,926,535               6.25% 
 Indirect    JIM Nominees Limited                     2,086,888               0.73% 
             Bank of New York Nominees 
 Indirect     Ltd                                    24,142,299               8.42% 
             CB NYK - CITIBANK N.A.-PRIVATE 
 Indirect     BK                                     19,079,476               6.66% 
             Northern Trust Company 
 Indirect     AVFC                                    2,479,390               0.87% 
 

For further information contact:

 
  CentralNic Group Plc                                              [phone] 
   Michael Riedl 
   Don Baladasan 
   William Green 
 
   Zeus (NOMAD and Joint Broker) 
   Nick Cowles / Jamie Peel / James Edis (Investment Banking)    [phone] 
   Dominic King (Corporate Banking)                              [phone] 
 

ANNEX

Template for notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
      Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
  1    / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                     Kestrel Partners LLP 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
      Reason for the notification 
  2 
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 a)   Position/status          PCA - Max Royde (non-executive director CentralNic 
                                Group plc) 
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 b)   Initial notification     Initial 
       /Amendment 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
  3    auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                     CentralNic Group plc 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                      213800WAVVOPS85N2205 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
      Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
  4    (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Description              GBP0.001 Ordinary Shares 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument       ISIN: GB00BCCW4X83 
       Identification 
       code 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of the             Purchase 
       transaction 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s) and              Purchase 
       volume(s)                 13 January 2023 
                                 Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       Transfer                            -------------- 
                                 1.537622   14,184 shares 
       P urchase                           -------------- 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated information 
       - Aggregated              Purchase Total 14,184 shares at an average 
       volume                    price of GBP 1.537622 
       - Price 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the              16 January 2023 
       transaction 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of the             London AIM 
       transaction 
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