Beazley PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Aug 5, 2014

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Beazley PLC

05 August 2014

Beazley plc

Dublin, 5 August 2014

Beazley plc Employee Benefit Trust

The board of Beazley plc announces that Beazley plc Employee Benefit Trust has purchased 100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company on 1 August 2014 at an average price of 244.7p.

The Beazley plc Employee Benefit Trust now owns 15,919,870 ordinary shares of 5p each (3.05% of the issued share capital).

For further information, please contact:

Beazley plc

Sian Coope

+353 (0)1 854 4700

Note to editors:

Beazley plc (BEZ.L), is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia and Australia.  Beazley manages five Lloyd's syndicates and, in 2013, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of $1,970.2 million.  All Lloyd's syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best. 

Beazley's underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products.  In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an A.M. Best A rated carrier licensed in all 50 states.  In the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's.

Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, which include professional indemnity, property, marine, reinsurance, accident and life, and political risks and contingency business.

For more information please go to: www.beazley.com

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