Kainos Group PLC

Director's Dealing • Mar 7, 2019

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RNS Number : 1963S

Kainos Group plc

07 March 2019

07 March 2019

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company") 

Director/PDMR Shareholdings

The Company has been notified that on 06 March 2019, Dr John Lillywhite, Chairman, transferred 40,000 ordinary shares in the Company, to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), for nil consideration.

The Lillywhite Family Trust (Charity number: 1181785) has been established to promote and advance exclusively charitable purposes, namely the provision of funding for bursaries and scholarships for disadvantaged young people.

Following this notification, Dr Lillywhite holds 460,000 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.38% of the total issued shares in the Company.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

The notification of dealing form is set out below:

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1.         

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.         

Name

Dr John Lillywhite

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

Chairman/Director

b.         

Initial notification

/Amendment

Initial

3.         

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.         

Name

Kainos Group plc

b.         

LEI

213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47

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

Identification code

Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each

ISIN: GB00BZ0D6727

b.         

Nature of the transaction

Transfer of Ordinary Shares of £0.005 each to the Lillywhite Family Trust for nil consideration. The Lillywhite Family Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), Charity Number: 1181785.

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
NIL	40,000

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

06-03-2019

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside of a trading venue

Ends

For further information, please contact:

Kainos                                                                                           via FTI Consulting LLP

Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer

Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

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Patrick Robb / Sebastian Lawrence

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Simon Bridges / Emma Gabriel

FTI Consulting LLP                                                                             +44 20 3727 1000

Matt Dixon / Harry Staight

About Kainos

Kainos Group plc is a UK-based provider of Digital Services and Digital Platforms.

The Group's Digital Services include full lifecycle development and support of customised Digital Services for government and commercial customers. Kainos is also the leading European partner for Workday Inc. ('Workday') responsible for implementing Workday's innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for enterprise and, now, government customers.

The Group's Digital Platforms comprise specialised digital products in the mobile healthcare and automated testing arenas. Smart is an automated testing platform for Workday customers; Evolve Electronic Medical Records ('EMR') is the market leading product for the digitisation of patient notes in the Acute sector of the NHS; and Evolve Integrated Care ('IC') is a SaaS-based integrated care platform for the NHS and international healthcare providers.

Kainos has over 1,300 people across eleven offices in Europe and the USA, working interchangeably across its Services and Platforms divisions.

Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS). For further information, please visit www.kainos.com

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