18th Oct 2016 16:33
18 October 2016
Worldpay Group plc (the "Company")
NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY DIRECTORS/PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ("PDMRs")
The Company announces that a number of PDMRs and a Person Closely Associated with one of them sold an aggregate of 21,884,664 ordinary shares of 3 pence each (the "Shares") in the market on 17 October 2016, at an average price of 285.0285 pence per Share.
The sale of shares follows the anniversary on 16 October 2016 of the IPO of the Company and the expiry of the first-year lock-up period described in the Prospectus published by the Company on 13 October 2015 prior to the Company's Initial Public Offering on 16 October 2015.
Following the sale of the shares, the PDMRs continue to hold significant interests in the share capital of the Company, including fully vested shares subject to lock-up periods of up to a further two years and, other than the non-executive Directors, conditional shares awarded under the Transitional Award Plan, the Performance Share Plan and the Save As You Earn Plan. The PDMR's retained interests in fully vested shares in the Company (the value of which is also expressed as a percentage of base salary for the Executive Directors) are shown in the tables below:
Executive Directors* | No of shares sold | No of fully vested shares held following the sale | Value of shares held as a percentage of salary** |
Philip Jansen | 3,754,044 | 7,508,089 | 2,553% |
Ron Kalifa | 1,858,000 | 5,735,022 | 3,489% |
Rick Medlock | 200,000 | 5,402,920 | 3,123% |
Non-executive Directors | No of shares sold | No of shares held following the sale |
John Allan | 743,511 | 1,908,614 |
Martin Scicluna | 192,137 | 303,671 |
Other PDMRs* | No of shares sold | No of fully vested shares held following the sale |
Andy Doyle | 879,616 | 1,759,233 |
Mark Edwards | 874,362 | 1,748,724 |
Shane Happach*** | 2,479,151 | 1,858,780 |
Dave Hobday | 1,507,808 | 3,015,616 |
Mark Kimber | 1,566,021 | 3,132,043 |
Floris de Kort | 620,589 | 1,241,179 |
Ruth Prior | 387,638 | 775,279 |
\* The Executive Directors and other PDMRs also hold conditional interests in the Transitional Award Plan, the Performance Share Plan and the All-Employee SAYE Plan described in the Company's Remuneration Report, which can be found at http://investors.worldpay.com/ The Interests of the Executive Directors in those conditional awards are as follows:
Executive Director | TAP award | PSP award | SAYE award | Total |
Philip Jansen | 833,333 | 602,409 | 7,531 | 1,443,273 |
Ron Kalifa | 416,666 | 252,480 | 7,531 | 676,677 |
Rick Medlock | 416,666 | 265,768 | 7,531 | 689,965 |
**Based on a share price of 289p, being the closing price on 17 October 2016.
***the shares shown against Shane Happach's name are/were held by Ares Ltd, a Person Closely Associated with Shane Happach, a PDMR of the Company. Mr Happach has/had no beneficial interest in the shares sold by Ares Ltd, the proceeds of the sale of those shares or the retained shares shown against his name.
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Investor relations: Charles King, Investor Relations Director
Media: Claire Hardy, Head of External Communications James Murgatroyd / Andrew Hughes, Finsbury
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Group Company Secretary:
Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary Tel: +44 (0) 7342 082 043
About Worldpay Group plc
Worldpay (LSE: WPG) is a leader in global payments. We provide an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services to over 400,000 customers, enabling their businesses to grow and prosper. We manage the increasing complexity of the payments landscape for our customers, allowing them to accept the widest range of payment types around the world. Using our network and technology, we are able to process payments from geographies covering 99% of global GDP, across 146 countries and 126 currencies. We help our customers to accept more than 300 different payment types. http://investors.worldpay.com/
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