Knights Group Holdings PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (0554P)

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RNS Number : 0554P

Knights Group Holdings PLC

07 October 2019

Knights Group Holdings plc

("Knights" or the "Company")

Notification of Transactions of Directors /

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")

Knights announces that it was notified on 7 October 2019 that following receipt of the final dividend of 1.27p per share, which was approved at the AGM on 24 September 2019 and paid on 30 September 2019, the SIP trustee has re-invested the dividend proceeds by purchasing 2,356 ordinary shares of 0.2 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of GBP3.34 per share on behalf of participating employees.

Details of the Ordinary Shares purchased by the SIP trustee and awarded to PDMRs, together with their resulting interests, are set out in the table below:

 
 Name/Position        Total New Shares   Total resulting interest 
                                          in Ordinary Shares 
 Kate Lewis           11                 2,812 
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 Lisa Bridgwood       11                 2,812 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 Nigel Johnson        11                 2,812 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 James Sheridan       11                 313,157 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 Yvonne Sidwell       11                 2,812 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 Julia Stokes         6                  1,563 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 Mark Whitehouse      11                 2,812 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 Andrew Pilkington    11                 2,812 
                     -----------------  ------------------------- 
 

These notifications are made under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") relating to certain transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR") and persons closely associated with them ("PCA") in the shares of the Company.

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Enquiries

 
 Knights 
 David Beech, CEO                              via MHP Communications 
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 Numis (Nominated Adviser and Broker) 
 Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank, Michael 
  Burke                                              [phone] 
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 MHP Communications (Media enquiries) 
 Andrew Jaques, Katie Hunt, Rachel Mann              [phone] 
                                                     [e-mail] 
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Notes to Editors

Knights is a fast-growing, legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK top 100 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all of the key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. It is focussed on key UK markets outside London and currently operates from eight offices located in Cheltenham, Chester, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Oxford, Stoke and Wilmslow.

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