Company Announcements

Notification of transactions by PDMRs

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Burford Capital Limited
14 August 2019
 

14 August 2019

Notification of transaction by person discharging managerial responsibilities

 

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford"), the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law, has been notified of certain additional share purchases made yesterday by Hugh Steven Wilson, Burford's Deputy Chairman.

As outlined in a previous announcement, Mr Wilson purchased 25,000 shares last week following the release of Burford's response to the Muddy Waters report. Following those share purchases, Mr Wilson yesterday purchased an additional 29,410 ordinary shares of nil par value in Burford ("Ordinary Shares") on the market at a price of 703 pence per share.

As a result of these transactions, Mr Wilson controls a total of 254,410 Ordinary Shares, amounting to 0.12% of the issued share capital.

The Notification of Dealing Form for the transaction mentioned above is included at the end of this announcement.

 

For further information, please contact:

Burford Capital Limited

 

Elizabeth O'Connell, CFA, Chief Financial Officer

+1 212 235 6825

Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 3037 2000

Jonny Allison

 

Alex Reynolds

 

Liberum Capital Limited - Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 3100 2222

Richard Crawley

 

Jamie Richards

 

Numis Securities Limited - Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 7260 1000

Charlie Farquhar

 

Jonathan Abbott

 

Montfort Communications Limited - Financial Communications

+44 (0)20 3770 7908

Robert Bailhache - email

 

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with law firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington DC, Singapore and Sydney.

For more information about Burford: www.burfordcapital.com

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

(a)    Name

Hugh Steven Wilson

2

Reason for the notification

 

 

(a)    Position/status

A PDMR occupying the position of Deputy Chairman

 

(b)   Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

(a)    Name

Burford Capital Limited

 

(b)   LEI

549300FUKUWFYJMT2277

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 instrument, type of instrument

Ordinary shares of nil par value

 

Identification code

GG00B4L84979

 

(b)   Nature of the transaction

Purchase of ordinary shares

 

(c)    Price(s)and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

703p

29,410

 

 

 

(d)   Aggregated information

·    Aggregated volume

·    Price

N/A

 

 

(e)    Date of the transaction

13 August 2019

 

(f)    Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange AIM

 


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