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RNS Number : 8751M
Worldpay Group PLC
18 October 2016
18 October 2016
Worldpay Group plc (the "Company")
NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY DIRECTORS/PERSONS DISCHARGING
MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ("PDMRs")
The Company announces that a number of PDMRs and a Person
Closely Associated with one of them sold an aggregate of 21,884,664
ordinary shares of 3 pence each (the "Shares") in the market on 17
October 2016, at an average price of 285.0285 pence per Share.
The sale of shares follows the anniversary on 16 October 2016 of
the IPO of the Company and the expiry of the first-year lock-up
period described in the Prospectus published by the Company on 13
October 2015 prior to the Company's Initial Public Offering on 16
October 2015.
Following the sale of the shares, the PDMRs continue to hold
significant interests in the share capital of the Company,
including fully vested shares subject to lock-up periods of up to a
further two years and, other than the non-executive Directors,
conditional shares awarded under the Transitional Award Plan, the
Performance Share Plan and the Save As You Earn Plan. The PDMR's
retained interests in fully vested shares in the Company (the value
of which is also expressed as a percentage of base salary for the
Executive Directors) are shown in the tables below:
Executive No of shares No of fully Value of shares
Directors* sold vested shares held as a percentage
held following of salary**
the sale
--------------- ------------- ---------------- ----------------------
Philip Jansen 3,754,044 7,508,089 2,553%
--------------- ------------- ---------------- ----------------------
Ron Kalifa 1,858,000 5,735,022 3,489%
--------------- ------------- ---------------- ----------------------
Rick Medlock 200,000 5,402,920 3,123%
--------------- ------------- ---------------- ----------------------
Non-executive No of shares sold No of shares held
Directors following the sale
----------------- ------------------ --------------------
John Allan 743,511 1,908,614
----------------- ------------------ --------------------
Martin Scicluna 192,137 303,671
----------------- ------------------ --------------------
Other PDMRs* No of shares sold No of fully vested
shares held following
the sale
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Andy Doyle 879,616 1,759,233
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Mark Edwards 874,362 1,748,724
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Shane Happach*** 2,479,151 1,858,780
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Dave Hobday 1,507,808 3,015,616
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Mark Kimber 1,566,021 3,132,043
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Floris de Kort 620,589 1,241,179
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
Ruth Prior 387,638 775,279
------------------ ------------------ -----------------------
*The Executive Directors and other PDMRs also hold conditional
interests in the Transitional Award Plan, the Performance Share
Plan and the All-Employee SAYE Plan described in the Company's
Remuneration Report, which can be found at
http://investors.worldpay.com/ The Interests of the Executive
Directors in those conditional awards are as follows:
Executive TAP award PSP award SAYE award Total
Director
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Philip Jansen 833,333 602,409 7,531 1,443,273
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Ron Kalifa 416,666 252,480 7,531 676,677
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------
Rick Medlock 416,666 265,768 7,531 689,965
--------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------
**Based on a share price of 289p, being the closing price on 17
October 2016.
***the shares shown against Shane Happach's name are/were held
by Ares Ltd, a Person Closely Associated with Shane Happach, a PDMR
of the Company. Mr Happach has/had no beneficial interest in the
shares sold by Ares Ltd, the proceeds of the sale of those shares
or the retained shares shown against his name.
Enquiries:
Investor relations:
Charles King, Investor Tel: +44 (0)
Relations Director 203 664 6171
Media: Tel: +44 (0)
Claire Hardy, Head of 203 664 4902
External Communications Tel: +44 (0)
James Murgatroyd / Andrew 207 251 3801
Hughes, Finsbury
Group Company Secretary:
Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary Tel: +44 (0) 7342 082 043
About Worldpay Group plc
Worldpay (LSE: WPG) is a leader in global payments. We provide
an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services
to over 400,000 customers, enabling their businesses to grow and
prosper. We manage the increasing complexity of the payments
landscape for our customers, allowing them to accept the widest
range of payment types around the world. Using our network and
technology, we are able to process payments from geographies
covering 99% of global GDP, across 146 countries and 126
currencies. We help our customers to accept more than 300 different
payment types. http://investors.worldpay.com/
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