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| Date | 29 Sept 2021 |
| Time | 13:18:25 |
| Category | Director/PDMR dealings |
| ID | 4143N |
29 September 2021
("Kainos" or the "Company")
Director / PDMR shareholdings
The Company was notified on 27 September 2021, that:
(i) Richard McCann, Director, exercised his 2018 SAYE options over 1,070 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr McCann retained the ordinary shares on exercise. Following this notification, Mr McCann and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 4,630,352 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 3.75% of the issued share capital of the Company.
(ii) Russell Sloan, Divisional Director, exercised his 2018 SAYE options over 1,070 ordinary shares in the Company. Mr Sloan retained the ordinary shares on exercise. Following this notification, Mr Sloan and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 322,307 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 0.26% of the issued share capital of the Company.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging
managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated |
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Name |
Richard McCann |
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Reason for the notification |
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Position/status |
Director |
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Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Name |
Kainos Group plc |
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LEI |
213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 |
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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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Description of the Financial instrument/ type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS |
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Nature of the transaction |
Exercise of SAYE Options |
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Price(s) and volume(s) |
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Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A |
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Date of the transaction |
27-September-2021 |
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Place of the transaction |
Outside a Trading venue |
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated |
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Name |
Russell Sloan |
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Reason for the notification |
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Position/status |
Divisional Director |
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b. |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial |
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3. |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a. |
Name |
Kainos Group plc |
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b. |
LEI |
213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 |
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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 Identification code |
Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each
KNOS |
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b. |
Nature of the transaction |
Exercise of SAYE Options |
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c. |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d. |
Aggregated information · Aggregated volume · Price |
N/A |
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e. |
Date of the transaction |
27-September-2021 |
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f. |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a Trading venue |
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Kainos Group plc Legal Entity Identifier: 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47
Ends
For further information, please contact:
Kainos via FTI Consulting LLP
Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer
Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer
Investec Bank plc +44 20 7597 5970
Patrick Robb / Ben Griffiths
Canaccord Genuity +44 20 7523 4606
Simon Bridges/ Andrew Potts
FTI Consulting LLP +44 20 3727 1000
Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning
About Kainos
Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered IT provider, across two specialist business areas, Digital Services and the Workday Practice.
The Group's Digital Services include full lifecycle development and support of customised Digital Services for public sector, healthcare and commercial customers. These transformative solutions encompass a range of services from experience design to artificial intelligence and cloud to deliver truly intelligent solutions that are secure, accessible and cost-effective.
The Group's Workday Practice is one of Workday's most respected partners. As a full-service partner, we are experienced in complex deployment and integrations, and the leader in Workday test automation.
We're trusted by our customers to launch, test, expand and safeguard their Workday systems. Kainos has over 2,000 people across 12 offices in Europe and North America.
Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).