RWS Holdings PLC Increase in Share Capital (3891D)

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RNS Number : 3891D

RWS Holdings PLC

18 February 2020

For immediate release 18 February 2020

RWS Holdings plc

Increase in Share Capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS", "the Group"), one of the world's leading language and intellectual property support services providers, announces that a total of 223,105 options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("shares") pursuant to the Company's share option plan, adopted on 3 April 2013, have been exercised by a Senior Manager of the Company on 17 February 2020.

Following this exercise, there are a further 152,635 vested options outstanding under the Company's unapproved option scheme and nil vested options under the approved option scheme.

RWS has issued new shares to satisfy these options bringing the total number of shares in issue to 275,188,492 an increase of 0.08%. The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of these 223,105 shares, which is expected to occur on 24 February 2020.

For further information, please contact:

 
    RWS Holdings plc 
     Andrew Brode, Chairman 
     Richard Thompson, Chief Executive Officer 
     Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer                          01753 480200 
 
      MHP (Financial PR advisor) 
      Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge                              0203 128 8100 
 
      Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker) 
      Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank (Nominated 
      Adviser) 
      Will Bauton (Corporate Broker)                            0207 260 1000 
 
      Berenberg (Joint Broker) 
      Ben Wright / Toby Flaux / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff      020 3753 3069 
 

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