Horizon Discovery Group plc Director/PDMR Shareholding (2639D)

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RNS Number : 2639D

Horizon Discovery Group plc

25 June 2019

Horizon Discovery Group plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Cambridge, UK, 25 June 2019: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or "the Company"), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that, on 24 June 2019, Mr Terry Pizzie and Mr Jayesh Pankhania, both Executive Directors of the Company, purchased ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

Details of these purchases of Ordinary Shares, and each Director's resulting beneficial interest in the Company's issued share capital, are shown below:

 
Name of Director               Number of  Average purchase     Resulting       Resulting number 
                                Ordinary         price per     number of     of Ordinary Shares 
                        Shares purchased          Ordinary      Ordinary   held as a percentage 
                                             Share (pence)   Shares held       of the Company's 
                                                                                   issued share 
                                                                                        capital 
Mr Terry Pizzie                    7,285            150.3p        22,285                 0.015% 
Mr Jayesh Pankhania*              33,112            151.0p        46,645                 0.031% 
 

*Purchased for Self-Invested Personal Pension fund

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.

 
     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
 1    closely associated 
a)   Name                                    Terry Pizzie 
2    Reason for the notification 
a)   Position/status                         Chief Executive Officer - Executive 
                                              Director 
b)   Initial notification /Amendment         Initial Notification 
3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
      auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
a)   Name                                    Horizon Discovery Group plc 
b)   Legal Entity Identifier                 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 
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 
a)   Description of the financial            Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence each 
      instrument, type of instrument          GB00BK8FL363 
      Identification code 
b)   Nature of the transaction               Purchase of shares 
c)   Currency                                GBP 
d)   Price(s) and volume(s)                  Average Price        No. of shares 
                                             150.3p               7,285 
 
e)   Aggregated information                   7,285 
  - Aggregated volume                          150.3p 
  - Price                                      GBP10,949.36 
  - Aggregated total 
f)   Date of the transaction                 24 June 2019 
g)   Place of the transaction                London Stock Exchange, AIM 
 
 
1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
      closely associated 
a)   Name                                    Jayesh Pankhania, for his Self-Invested 
                                              Personal Pension fund 
2    Reason for the notification 
a)   Position/status                         Chief Financial Officer - Executive 
                                              Director 
b)   Initial notification /Amendment         Initial Notification 
3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
      auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
a)   Name                                    Horizon Discovery Group plc 
b)   Legal Entity Identifier                 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 
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 
a)   Description of the financial            Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence each 
      instrument, type of instrument 
      Identification code                     GB00BK8FL363 
b)   Nature of the transaction               Purchase of shares 
c)   Currency                                GBP 
d)   Price(s) and volume(s)                  Average Price          No. of shares 
                                             151.0p                 33,112 
 
e)   Aggregated information                   33,112 
  - Aggregated volume                          151.0p 
  - Price                                      GBP49,999.12 
  - Aggregated total 
f)   Date of the transaction                 24 June 2019 
g)   Place of the transaction                London Stock Exchange, AIM 
 

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For further information from Horizon Discovery Group plc, please contact:

Horizon Discovery Group plc

Terry Pizzie, Chief Executive Officer

Jayesh Pankhania, Chief Financial Officer

Jon Davies, Head of Investor Relations

Tel: [phone]

Numis Securities Limited (Broker and NOMAD)

James Black / Freddie Barnfield / Duncan Monteith

Tel: [phone]

Consilium Strategic Communications (Financial Media and Investor Relations)

Mary-Jane Elliott / Matthew Neal / Melissa Gardiner

Tel: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

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