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Director/PDMR Shareholding

26th Mar 2010 12:31

RNS Number : 2642J
Monitise PLC
26 March 2010
 



26 March 2010

 

Monitise Plc (the 'Company')

Notification of Interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial

Responsibility ('PDMR') and connected persons

 

The Company announces that on 25 March 2010 Duncan McIntyre, Chairman of the Company, exercised 9,090,909 options granted to him under the Performance Share Plan option scheme ("PSP") at an exercise price of GBP 0.01. Following this exercise Mr McIntyre sold 5,307,855 shares at a price of 14.5p per share in order to cover the tax and other costs of the exercise of share option. Following these transactions Mr McIntyre holds 24,479,504 shares in the Company, representing 4.9% of the issued share capital.

 

On the same day Alastair Lukies, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, exercised 8,191,000 options. Of the options exercised 4,107,791 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the Monitise Rollover Plan option scheme ("MRP"), 2,540,027 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the PSP and 1,543,182 options were exercised at GBP at GBP 0.00 under the Deferred Annual Bonus Plan ("DABP"). Following the exercise of options Mr Lukies sold 4,660,794 shares at a price of 14.5p per share in order to cover the tax and other costs of the exercise of share option. Following these transactions Mr Lukies holds 3,869,039 shares in the Company, representing 0.8% of the issued share capital.

 

On the same day Lee Cameron, General Counsel of the Company, exercised 1,282,982 options. Of the options exercised 547,705 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the MRP, 508,005 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the PSP and 227,272 options were exercised at GBP 0.00 under the DABP. Following the exercise of options Mr Cameron sold 731,173 shares at a price of 14.5p per share in order to cover the tax and other costs of the exercise of share option. Following these transactions Mr Cameron holds 941,368 shares in the Company, representing 0.2% of the issued share capital.

 

On the same day Tom Spurgeon, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, exercised 609,449 options. Of the options exercised 219,082 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the MRP, 254,003 options were exercised at GBP 0.01 under the PSP and 136,364 options were exercised at GBP 0.00 under the DABP. Following the exercise of options Mr Spurgeon sold 275,802 shares at a price of 14.5p per share in order to cover the tax and other costs of the exercise of share option. Following these transactions Mr Spurgeon holds 552,982 shares in the Company, representing 0.1% of the issued share capital.

 

The sale of shares following the exercise of options has been done in order to cover the tax and other costs of the exercise of share options. The Directors have contracted to retain the net number of shares held following the exercise and sale of options, under the PSP and DABP schemes, for a period of 24 months from 25 March 2010.

 

The Company also announces today that, on 25 March 2010, it granted options over its ordinary shares of 1 pence each to the following directors:

 

Director

Number of options

Exercise price per share

Alastair Lukies

2,000,000

£0.01

Lee Cameron

1,000,000

£0.01

Tom Spurgeon

400,000

£0.01

 

The above awards were granted in accordance with the Company's Performance Share Plan option scheme. The vesting criteria of the awards are to be split with 50% on a time linked scheme and 50% on a TSR performance scheme. The vesting period is three years from the date of grant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contacts:

 

Monitise Group

Tel: 020 7947 4300

Alastair Lukies, CEO

Tom Spurgeon, CFO

Financial Dynamics

Tel: 020 7831 3113

Juliet Clarke

Harriet Rumball

Haya Herbert-Burns

Erwan Gouraud

Evolution Securities Limited

(NOMAD and Joint Broker)

Tel: 020 7071 4300

Bobbie Hilliam

Tim Redfern

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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