ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC — Director's Dealing 2017

Mar 14, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC (ECPG)
CIK: 0001084961
Period of Report: 2017-03-09

Reporting Person: Call Gregory L. (Sr. VP, GC & Secretary)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-03-09	Common Stock	A	9289	—	Acquired	65310	Direct
2017-03-09	Common Stock	F	2512	$30.95	Disposed	62798	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-03-09	Employee Stock Option (right to buy)	$30.95	A	25189	Acquired	2024-03-09	Common Stock (25189.0)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Grant to the reporting person on March 9, 2017 of restricted stock awards ("RSAs") under the Encore Capital Group, Inc. 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan. The RSAs are subject to vesting and vest in annual installments over a three-year period, with one-third vesting on March 9, 2018, one-third vesting on March 9, 2019, and the remaining one-third vesting on March 9, 2020.

F2: Disposal relates to the withholding of securities for the payment of the tax liability incident to the vesting of stock awards.

F3: The option vests and becomes exercisable, if at all, in installments over a three-year period, with one-third vesting on March 9, 2018, one-third vesting on March 9, 2019 and the remaining one-third vesting on March 9, 2020, but only if and when the 20 trading day average of the NASDAQ-reported closing price per share of the Company's common stock (subject to certain adjustments) exceeds $38.6875 per share.