Lancashire Holdings

Director's Dealing • Mar 2, 2017

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LANCASHIRE HOLDINGS LIMITED - Director/PDMR Shareholding

PR Newswire

London, March 2

Lancashire Holdings Limited

(the “Company”)

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

The Company announces that, on 27 February 2017, Elaine Whelan, Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer exercised 100,117 Restricted Share Awards (“RSS awards”) granted as nil-cost options over the Company’s common shares of US$0.50 each. Of these RSS awards 69,416 were granted under the LHL Restricted Share Scheme and 30,701 were granted under the LHL Restricted Share Scheme Bonus Deferral Plan.

Mrs. Whelan sold 4,723 of the resulting shares at the price shown below to cover the tax, national insurance and fees arising as a result of the exercise and retained the balance of 95,394 shares. The exercise was satisfied using existing shares in issue held by the Lancashire Holdings Limited Employee Benefit Trust.

Following this transaction, Elaine Whelan has an interest in the Company of 524,370 common shares (which includes 11,590 held via a connected person), representing 0.2623%.

Additionally, Elaine Whelan also holds the following interests in the Company:

Restricted Share Scheme – Deferred Bonus Awards – 35,585 (vesting is subject to time and employment conditions only).

Restricted Share Scheme Awards – 325,253 (Pursuant to the Rules of the Restricted Share Scheme, the number of shares that will actually vest depends on the satisfaction of certain conditions including employment, performance and time conditions). 

The notification, made in accordance with Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation,  is set out below:

1Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associateda)NameElaine Whelan2Reason for the notificationa)Position/statusExecutive Director and Group Chief Financial Officerb)Initial notification/AmendmentInitial notification3Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitora)NameLancashire Holdings Limitedb)LEI 5493002UNUYXLHOWF7524(i)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 conducteda)Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification codeCommon Shares of US$0.50 each

ISIN: BMG5361W1047b)Nature of the transaction(i)    Acquisition of shares on exercise of 100,117 Restricted Share Awards (“RSS awards”) granted as nil-cost options over common shares of US$0.50 each, of which 69,416 were granted under the LHL Restricted Share Scheme and 30,701 were granted under the LHL Restricted Share Scheme Bonus Deferral Planc)Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
nil	100,117 shares acquired on exercise of RSS awards

d)Aggregated information

-       Aggregated volume

-       Price

100,117

nile)Date of the transaction 2017-02-27f)Place of the transaction (XLON) London Stock Exchange – Regulated Market4(ii)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 conducteda)Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification codeCommon Shares of US$0.50 each

ISIN: BMG5361W1047b)Nature of the transaction(ii)   Sale of 4,723  shares to cover tax liabilities and fees on exercise of 100,117 Restricted Share Awards (“RSS awards”) granted as nil-cost options over common shares of US$0.50 eachc)Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£6.9036	4,723 shares sold to cover tax liabilities

d)Aggregated information

-       Aggregated volume

-       Price

4,723

£32,605.70e)Date of the transaction 2017-02-27f)Place of the transaction (XLON) London Stock Exchange – Regulated Market

Name of authorised official of issuer for making notification

Christopher Head Company Secretary 2 March 2017	+44 20 7264 4145 chris.head@lancashiregroup.com