RWS GROUP
22 February 2016
RWS Holdings plc
Increase in Share Capital
RWS Holdings plc ("RWS", "the Company"), the world's leading provider of intellectual property support services (patent translations, international patent filing solutions and searches), commercial translations and linguistic validation, announces that a total of 700,000 options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1p each ("shares") pursuant to the Company's share option plan, adopted on 3 April 2013 have been exercised by Senior Managers of the Company on 19 February 2016.
Following this exercise, there are a further 3,832,905 vested options outstanding under the Company's unapproved option scheme and a further 139,290 unvested options under the approved option scheme.
RWS has issued new shares to satisfy these options bringing the total number of shares in issue to 215,718,220, an increase of 0.33%. The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interests in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of these 700,000 shares which is expected to occur on 26 February 2016.
For further information, please contact:
RWS Holdings plc
Richard Thompson, Deputy Chief Executive & Group Finance Director 01753 480200
MHP
Katie Hunt/Simon Hockridge 020 3128 8794
Numis
Stuart Skinner (Nominated Adviser) 020 7260 1000
James Serjeant (Corporate Broker)
