For immediate release                                                                                      9 March 2022

RWS Holdings plc

Option exercise and increase in share capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), a world leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services, announces that 417 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") were issued today in order to satisfy the exercise of options under the SDL plc 2018 Sharesave Scheme (which was rolled over into an RWS scheme at the time of RWS's acquisition of SDL plc in November 2020). These options had an exercise price of 258.04 pence per share. Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 am on 15 March 2022.

Following this exercise, the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,432,703 RWS Shares. RWS has no RWS Shares held in treasury. The above figure includes 55,896 RWS Shares that are held by the RWS Holdings plc Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes.  Therefore shareholders may use the figure of 389,376,807 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, RWS under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.

RWS Holdings plc                                                             01753 480200

Andrew Brode, Chairman

Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer

Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer

MHP (Financial PR advisor)                                            rws@mhpc.com

Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge                                            0203 128 8100

Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker)                                       0207 260 1000

Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank / Will Baunton

Berenberg (Joint Broker)                                                 0203 207 7800

Ben Wright / Toby Flaux / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff