Kainos Group PLC

Director's Dealing • Dec 13, 2021

National Storage Mechanism | Additional information

RNS Number : 4805V

Kainos Group plc

13 December 2021

13 December 2021

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company")

Director / PDMR shareholdings

The Company announces that on 13 December 2021, share awards (the "Awards") approved by the Board of Directors of the Company under the Company's HM Revenue and Customs approved Share Incentive Plan scheme (the "SIP Awards"), in the form of free ordinary shares, contingent on length of service of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were provided to all eligible U.K. based employees of the Company, including the executive directors of the Company, or its subsidiaries.

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

Brendan Mooney

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

CEO

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

KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

SIP Share Awards 2021

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£18.074	180

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

13-December-2021

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading venue

1.         

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.         

Name

Richard McCann

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

CFO/COO

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

KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

SIP Share Awards 2021

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£18.074	180

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

13-December-2021

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading venue

1.         

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.         

Name

Russell Sloan

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

Divisional 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

KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

SIP Share Awards 2021

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£18.074	180

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

13-December-2021

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading venue

1.         

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.         

Name

Malachy Smith

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

Divisional 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

KNOS

b.         

Nature of the transaction

SIP Share Awards 2021

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£18.074	180

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

13-December-2021

f.         

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading venue

Kainos Group plc Legal Entity Identifier: 213800H2PQMIF3OVZY47 

Ends

For further information, please contact:

Kainos                                                                                        via FTI Consulting LLP

Brendan Mooney, Chief Executive Officer

Richard McCann, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc                                                                              +44 20 7597 5970

Patrick Robb / Ben Griffiths

Canaccord Genuity                                                                           +44 20 7523 4606

Simon Bridges/ Andrew Potts

FTI Consulting LLP                                                                               +44 20 3727 1000

Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Kwaku Aning

About Kainos

Kainos Group plc is a UK-headquartered IT provider, across two specialist business areas, Digital Services and the Workday Practice.

The Group's Digital Services include full lifecycle development and support of customised Digital Services for public sector, healthcare and commercial customers. These transformative solutions encompass a range of services from experience design to artificial intelligence and cloud to deliver truly intelligent solutions that are secure, accessible and cost-effective.

The Group's Workday Practice is one of Workday's most respected partners. As a full-service partner, we are experienced in complex deployment and integrations, and the leader in Workday test automation.

We're trusted by our customers to launch, test, expand and safeguard their Workday systems. Kainos has over 2,500 people across 17 offices in Europe and North America, and South America.

Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).

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