19 May 2023
NAHL Group PLC
("NAHL" or the "Group")
Issue of Equity from Exercise of Share Options
Director/PDMR Shareholding
NAHL (AIM: NAH), a leading UK marketing and services business focused on the consumer legal market, today announces the issue and allotment of 473,121 new ordinary shares of £0.0025 each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the exercise of certain share options. As part of this exercise, James Saralis (Group Chief Executive) and Chris Higham (Group Chief Financial Officer) exercised 194,656 and 46,000 share options respectively. These share options were granted on 23 April 2021 and with an exercise price of £0.0025 pence per share.
Following the above exercise of 473,121 share options, their respective interests in the Group's enlarged issued share capital is as follows:
| | Number of Ordinary Shares | % interest in NAHL |
| James Saralis | 239,837 | 0.51 |
| Chris Higham | 202,434 | 0.43 |
Application will be made for the 473,121 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and dealings are expected to commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 25 May 2023 ("Admission"). The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of the Group.
Total voting rights
Following the exercise of options and Admission, the issued share capital of the Group will consist of 46,798,343 Ordinary Shares, none of which are held in treasury. Shareholders may use this figure 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 the issued share capital of the Group under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
The following notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, gives further details.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Mr James Saralis | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer (Director and PDMR) | ||||
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | NAHL Group plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800FQN7XBX1S6U981 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
| a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary shares of £0.0025 each in NAHL Group PLC
Identification code (ISIN) for NAHL Group PLC ordinary shares: GB00BM7S2W63 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of share options in NAHL Group PLC | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information: - Aggregated volume - Price |
194,656 Ordinary Shares £0.0025
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| e) | Date of the transaction | 19 May 2023 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Mr Chris Higham | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Chief Financial Officer (Director and PMDR)
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| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | NAHL Group plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800FQN7XBX1S6U981 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
| a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary shares of £0.0025 each in NAHL Group PLC
Identification code (ISIN) for NAHL Group PLC ordinary shares: GB00BM7S2W63 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of share options in NAHL Group PLC | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information: - Aggregated volume - Price |
46,000 Ordinary Shares £0.0025
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| e) | Date of the transaction | 19 May 2023 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
ENDS
For further information please call:
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NAHL Group PLC James Saralis (CEO) Chris Higham (CFO)
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via FTI Consulting Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
| Allenby Capital (AIM Nominated Adviser & Broker) Jeremy Porter / Vivek Bhardwaj (Corporate Finance) Amrit Nahal (Sales & Corporate Broking)
| Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 0500 |
| FTI Consulting (Financial PR) Alex Beagley Sam Macpherson Amy Goldup
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
Notes to Editors
NAHL Group plc (AIM: NAH) is a leader in the Consumer Legal Services (CLS) market. The Group provides services and products to individuals and businesses in the CLS market through its two divisions:
· Consumer Legal Services provides outsourced marketing services to law firms through National Accident Helpline and Homeward Legal; and claims processing services to individuals through Your Law, Law Together and National Accident Law. In addition, it also provides property searches through Searches UK.
· Critical Care provides a range of specialist services in the catastrophic and serious injury market to both claimants and defendants through Bush & Co.
More information is available at www.nahlgroupplc.co.uk, www.national-accident-helpline.co.uk and www.bushco.co.uk .
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