26 February 2021
Polar Capital Holdings plc ("Polar Capital" or the "Company")
Notification of Transactions by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMRs)/Persons Closely Associated (PCAs)
The Company has been informed that Mr. Ashford-Russell, as part of his estate planning, has made two gifts of shares as detailed below.
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | ||||
a)
| Name
| Brian Ashford-Russell | |||
2 | Reason for the notification | ||||
a)
| Position/status
| Non-Executive Director | |||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment
| Initial Notification | |||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| ||||
a)
| Name
| Polar Capital Holdings plc | |||
b)
| LEI
| 549300OXX7YE1947B825 | |||
4
| 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
| ||||
a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary Shares of 2.5p each | |||
Identification code | GB00B1GCLT25 | ||||
| | ||||
b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Gifts of 400,000 shares to the BAR Discretionary Trust, where Mr Ashford-Russell is a trustee but not a beneficiary, and 400,000 to unrelated third party. | |||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s) | | | | |
| | Price(s) | Volume(s) | | |
| | Nil | 800,000 | | |
| | | | | |
d)
| Aggregated information | Single transaction as in 4 c) above | |||
- Aggregated volume | | ||||
- Price | | ||||
| | ||||
e)
| Date of the transaction
| 26-02-2021 | |||
f)
| Place of the transaction
| Off Market |
Enquiries:
Polar Capital Holdings | Numis Securities Limited - Nomad and Joint Broker |
Gavin Rochussen (CEO) | Charles Farquhar |
John Mansell (Executive Director) | Stephen Westgate |
Neil Taylor (Company Secretary) | Kevin Cruickshank (QE) |
Tel: +44 (0)20 7227 2700 | +44 (0)20 7260 1000 |
| |
| Peel Hunt LLP - Joint Broker |
| Andrew Buchanan |
| Rishi Shah |
| Tel: +44 (0)20 7418 8893 |
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