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11 December 2012
Brooks Macdonald Group plc
Directors' Dealings and Exercise of Options
Brooks Macdonald Group plc ("Brooks Macdonald" or the "Company") announces that, on 6 December 2012, a number of its employees exercised options over an aggregate 50,000 Ordinary Shares in accordance with the rules of the Company's Enterprise Management Scheme. Of these, the following directors of the Company exercised options over an aggregate 30,000 Ordinary Shares:
Directors | Number of options exercised | Date of option grant | Exercise price | Ordinary Shares held post option exercise | Ordinary Shares held post option exercise as % of issued share capital |
Chris Macdonald | 17,500 | 17 October 2007 | 290.5p | 825,603 | 6.22 |
Richard Spencer | 12,500 | 17 October 2007 | 290.5p | 771,353 | 5.81 |
TOTAL | 30,000 |
The Company also announces that, on 7 December 2012, certain directors of the Company purchased an aggregate 11,902 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") representing a total of approximately 0.09% of the Company's shares in issue, as follows:
Directors | Ordinary Shares purchased | Purchase price per Ordinary Share | Ordinary Shares held post purchase | Ordinary Shares held post purchase as % of issued share capital |
Chris Macdonald | 2,286 | 1305p | 827,889 | 6.24 |
Richard Spencer | 2,000 | 1305p | 773,353 | 5.83 |
Colin Harris | 1,142 | 1305p | 6,086 | 0.05 |
Jonathan Gumpel | 2,286 | 1305p | 642,460 | 4.84 |
Andrew Shepherd | 1,904 | 1305p | 51,165 | 0.39 |
Nicholas Holmes | 1,142 | 1305p | 48,766 | 0.37 |
Simon Jackson | 1,142 | 1305p | 56,799 | 0.43 |
TOTAL | 11,902 |
Pursuant to the above exercise of options, the Company has made application to the London Stock Exchange for 50,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective on 14 December 2012.
Following this notification, the Company has 13,274,958 Ordinary Shares in issue.
Enquiries to:
Brooks Macdonald Group plc www.brooksmacdonald.com
Chris Macdonald, Chief Executive 020 7499 6424
Simon Jackson, Finance Director
Collins Stewart Europe Limited 020 7523 8350
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