Option exercise and increase in share capital
Source: RNS
For immediate release 18 January 2023
RWS Holdings plc
Option exercise and increase in share capital
RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), a unique world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services, announces that 4,673 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") were issued yesterday in order to satisfy the exercise of options under the SDL plc 2019 Sharesave Scheme (which was rolled over into an RWS scheme at the time of RWS's acquisition of SDL plc in November 2020). These options had an exercise price of 334.8 pence per share. Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 am on 24 January 2023.
Following this exercise, the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,470,093 RWS Shares. RWS has no RWS Shares held in treasury. The above figure includes 30,688 RWS Shares that are held by the RWS Holdings plc Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes. Therefore shareholders may use the figure of 389,439,405 as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, RWS under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules and as the number of voting rights in RWS. The International Securities Identification Number of RWS Shares is GB00BVFCZV34.
For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.
RWS Holdings plc 01753 480200
Andrew Brode, Chairman
Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer
Candy Davies, Chief Financial Officer
MHP (Financial PR advisor) rws@mhpgroup.com
Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge 020 3128 8100
Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker) 020 7260 1000
Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank / Will Baunton
Berenberg (Joint Broker) 020 3207 7800
Ben Wright / Toby Flaux / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff
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