Knights Group Holdings plc
("Knights" or the "Company")
Notification of Transactions of Directors /
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR")
Knights announces that it was notified on 18 March 2019 that following the payment of the dividend payment of 0.6p per share, which was declared in the half year results on 15 January 2019 and paid on 15 March 2019, the SIP trustee has re-invested the dividend by purchasing 1,129 ordinary shares of 0.2 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 290 pence per share on behalf of participating employees.
Details of the Ordinary Shares purchased by the SIP trustee and awarded to PDMRs, together with their resulting interests, are set out in the table below:
| Name/Position | Total New Shares | Total resulting interest in Ordinary Shares |
| Kate Lewis, | 5 | 2801 |
| Lisa Bridgwood | 5 | 2801 |
| Nigel Johnson | 5 | 2801 |
| Philip Marsh | 5 | 2801 |
| James Sheridan | 5 | 623,491 |
| Yvonne Sidwell | 5 | 2801 |
| Mark Anton-Smith | 5 | 2801 |
| Julia Stokes | 3 | 1557 |
| Mark Whitehouse | 5 | 2801 |
| Sally Wightman | 5 | 2801 |
| Andrew Pilkington | 5 | 2801 |
These notifications are made under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") relating to certain transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR") and persons closely associated with them ("PCA") in the shares of the Company.
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Enquiries
| Knights | |
| David Beech, CEO | via MHP Communications |
| Numis (Nominated Adviser and Broker) | |
| Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank, Michael Burke | +44 20 7260 1000 |
| MHP Communications (Media enquiries) | |
| Andrew Jaques, Katie Hunt, Kelsey Traynor | +44 20 3128 8100 |
Notes to Editors
Knights is a fast-growing, regional legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK top 100 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all of the key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. The Company's main focus is on the UK's secondary regional markets, offering 'big city' quality expertise from a regional cost base. Currently, Knights operates from eight offices located in Cheltenham, Chester, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Oxford, Stoke and Wilmslow.