6th Apr 2020 09:21
6 April 2020
Diurnal Group plc
("Diurnal" or the "Company")
Director Dealings
Diurnal Group plc (AIM: DNL), the specialty pharmaceutical company targeting patient needs in chronic endocrine (hormonal) diseases, announces the following Directors' dealings:
Martin Whitaker purchased a total of 19,146 Ordinary Shares at 29.3 pence per share, to be held in pension schemes for the beneficial interest of his dependent children.
Following the transactions, the total beneficial interest of Martin Whitaker and his connected parties is 439,137 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.36% of the total voting rights.
Details of the full notifications received by the Company are set out below:
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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a)
| Name
| Martin Whitaker and dependent children | |||
2
| Reason for the notification
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a)
| Position/status
| Chief Executive Officer | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a)
| Name
| Diurnal Group plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 213800I2HNUNZN1LDH29 | |||
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
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a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares of 5 pence each in Diurnal Group plc | |||
Identification code | GB00BDB6Q760 | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Purchase of ordinary shares for the beneficial interest of his children
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c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | ||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | ||||
Buy 29.3p | 19,146 | ||||
d)
| Aggregated information | ||||
- Aggregated volume | As above | ||||
- Price | |||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 6 April 2020 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction
| XLON | |||
For further information, please visit www.diurnal.co.uk or contact: | |
Diurnal Group plc | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
Martin Whitaker, Chief Executive Officer | |
Richard Bungay, Chief Financial Officer | |
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) | +44 (0) 20 7886 2500 |
Corporate Finance: Freddy Crossley, Emma Earl | |
Corporate Broking: James Stearns | |
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Joint Broker) | +44 (0)20 7894 7000 |
Corporate Finance: Phil Davies, Will Goode, Michael Boot | |
Healthcare Equity Sales: Andrew Keith | |
FTI Consulting (Media and Investor Relations) | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
Simon Conway | |
Victoria Foster Mitchell | |
Notes to Editors
About Diurnal Group plc
Founded in 2004, Diurnal is a UK-headquartered, European-based specialty pharma company developing pharmaceutical products for the global market for the life-long treatment of chronic endocrine conditions, including Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Adrenal Insufficiency. Its expertise and innovative research activities focus on circadian-based endocrinology to yield novel product candidates in the rare and chronic endocrine disease arena.
For further information about Diurnal, please visit www.diurnal.co.uk
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