London Stock Exchange Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (5074P)

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RNS Number : 5074P

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

10 February 2023

10 February 2023

London Stock Exchange Group PLC ("LSEG")

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SECURITIES

London Stock Exchange Group plc ( LSEG ) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6(79/86) pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc ( Morgan Stanley ) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022 :

Ordinary Shares

 
 Date of purchase:            09 February 
                               2023 
 
 Number of voting ordinary 
  shares purchased:           1,815 
 
 Highest price paid per 
  share:                      7,704.00p 
 
 Lowest price paid per 
  share:                      7,614.00p 
 
 Volume weighted average 
  price per share:            7,663.49p 
 

LSEG intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transactions, LSEG holds 5,235,957 of its voting ordinary shares of 6(79/86) pence each in treasury and has 501,883,690 voting ordinary shares of 6(79/86) pence each in issue (excluding treasury shares). LSEG also has 51,124,377 limited-voting ordinary shares of 6(79/86) pence each in issue, which carry one-tenth of a vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 506,996,128. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as such legislation forms part of retained EU law as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by the Morgan Stanley on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is included below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

For further information, please contact:

 
 London Stock Exchange Group 
  plc 
 Lucie Holloway, Rhiannon Davies      [phone] 
  (Media)                              [e-mail] 
 Peregrine Riviere (Investors) 
 

Schedule of Purchases

   Shares purchased:           1,815 (ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34 ) 
   Date of purchases:          09 February 2023 
   Investment firm:              Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc 

Aggregate information:

 
 Venue    Volume-weighted   Aggregated   Lowest price   Highest price 
           average price      volume       per share      per share 
 XLON        7,647.22p         677        7,614.00p       7,702.00p 
         ----------------  -----------  -------------  -------------- 
 TRQX        7,684.38p         527        7,658.00p       7,704.00p 
         ----------------  -----------  -------------  -------------- 
 BATF        7,663.49p         611        7,663.49p       7,663.49p 
         ----------------  -----------  -------------  -------------- 
 

Detailed Information(1) :

 
 Transaction    Time (GMT)   Volume   Price (GBp)   Trading   Transaction 
  Date                                               Venue     Reference 
                                                               Number 
 09/02/2023     08:00:19     173      7,614.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzg7HM 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:00:19     165      7,614.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzg7HO 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:00:19     13       7,614.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzg7HQ 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:03:03     52       7,658.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPALge5 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:03:03     98       7,658.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzgIbZ 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:03:03     96       7,658.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPALge7 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:07:11     149      7,682.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPAMBab 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:14:20     91       7,702.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPAMzpc 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:17:00     35       7,702.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPANEOp 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:20:43     118      7,686.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzgy5G 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:31:02     58       7,704.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPAObly 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:31:02     46       7,704.00      TRQX      E0DP8LPAObm0 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     08:40:00     110      7,702.00      XLON      E0DP8LNzhShM 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 09/02/2023     16:35:56     611      7,663.49      BATF      _o7rbqEfT9iC66TtrIUwiwA 
               -----------  -------  ------------  --------  ------------------------ 
 

(1) The transaction shown in the last row of the table are purchases made from York Holdings II pursuant to certain arrangements entered into between Morgan Stanley and York Holdings II, as detailed in the announcement of 7 October 2022.

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