Oberon Investments Group PLC
("Oberon Investments" or the "Company")
Issue of Options
Oberon Investments Group plc announces the grant on 22nd April 2021 of options over 17,175,000 Ordinary shares of 0.5p each in Oberon Investments Group plc (the 'Options') to certain of its directors, PDMRs, and other members of staff. All of these options have an exercise price of 4.0p per share, being the market value at the time the options were granted.
Options over 3,000,000 Ordinary shares were granted to two Directors and two PDMRs under the Company's EMI Option scheme, as set out below.
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HMRC Approved EMI Option scheme grant |
No. of options held post Grant |
Current shareholding in Company |
| John Beaumont |
Director |
625,000 |
625,000 |
1,769,975 |
| Robert Hanson |
Director |
500,000 |
500,000 |
0 |
| Mike Seabrook |
PDMR |
1,250,000 |
1,250,000 |
1,253,375 |
| Simon Like |
PDMR |
625,000 |
14,175,000 |
20,365,000 |
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3,000,000 |
16,550,000 |
23,388,350 |
Of the shares under option granted to Simon Like, 13,550,000 were previously held in an EMI Option Scheme operated by Oberon Securities Ltd prior to the RTO, which will be transferred to Oberon Investments Group plc's scheme if/when HMRC approval is obtained.
In addition options over 10,000,000 Ordinary shares were granted to 1 director under an 'unapproved' option scheme, as set out below.
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Unapproved option scheme grant at 4.0p |
No. of options held post Grant |
Current shareholding in Company |
| Simon McGivern |
Director |
10,000,000 |
35,711,125 |
52,756,925 |
Of the shares under option granted to Simon McGivern, 25,711,125 were previously held in an EMI Option Scheme operated by Oberon Securities Ltd prior to the RTO, which will be transferred to Oberon Investments Group plc's scheme if/when HMRC approval is obtained.
Following these option grants, the Company has 56,436,125 shares under option, representing 13.8% of the current issued share capital of the Company.
This announcement contains information which, prior to its disclosure, was inside information as stipulated under Regulation 11 of the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/310 (as amended).
The Directors of the Company take responsibility for this announcement.
| Oberon Investments Group Plc
Simon McGivern / John Beaumont
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Via Walbrook PR |
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| Novum Securities Limited
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| Richard Potts / Daphne Zhang / Lucy Bowden |
020 7399 9400 |
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| Walbrook PR Ltd
Tom Cooper / Nick Rome |
Tel: 020 7933 8780 or [email protected] |
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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Name |
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1) Simon McGivern 2) John Beaumont 3) Robert Hanson 4) Mike Seabrook 5) Simon Like |
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Reason for notification |
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Position/Status |
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1) Group CEO 2) Group FD 3) NED 4) PDMR 5) PDMR |
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Initial notification/ Amendment |
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Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Name |
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Oberon Investments Group plc |
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LEI |
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21380024SB7KJSJ69U67 |
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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 |
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Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument |
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Options over Ordinary shares of 0.5p each ISIN Code: GB00BDZRYX75 |
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Nature of the transaction |
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Grant of Options |
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Price(s) and volume(s) |
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Aggregated information
- Aggregated Volume
- Price |
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13,000,000
4.0p
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Date of the transaction |
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22nd April 2021 |
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Place of the transaction |
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Outside of a trading venue |
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