Hargreaves Lansdown PLC — Director's Dealing 2015

Dec 2, 2015

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Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

02 December 2015

Hargreaves Lansdown plc

DIRECTOR / PDMR Shareholding  

2nd December 2015

Notification of Transaction of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") or Connected Persons  

Long Term Incentive Plan vesting and share sale

Hargreaves Lansdown plc (the "Company") has been notified that on 1st December 2015, David Davies, a PDMR exercised the following share option:

Name of Scheme	PDMR	Number of ordinary shares over which options were exercised	Exercise Price	Grant Date	Number of ordinary shares over which options are held following the exercise
LTIP 2012	David Davies	52,441	£6.87	31 December 2012	265,115

No new shares have been issued as a result of the exercise of the share options.

Following the exercise of the share options, Mr Davies sold a total of 52,441 ordinary shares of 0.4 pence in the Company ("ordinary shares") at a price of £15.11 per share on 1 December 2015. The number of ordinary shares sold represented 0.01% of the ordinary shares in issue.  Following the transaction, the beneficial shareholding of Mr Davies (including his connected persons) is 19,044 ordinary shares representing 0.004% of the ordinary shares in issue.

Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited is the registered shareholder as nominee for the above PDMR.

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

Enquiries:

Judy Matthews

Company Secretary

Hargreaves Lansdown plc

+44 (0) 117 988 9880

Notes:

(1)       Mr Davies was awarded 60,000 shares on 31st December 2012 (the "Award") under the terms of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

(2)        The performance conditions attaching to the Award comprised three elements:

·    1/3 of the Award was subject to growth of the Company's earnings per share;

·    1/3 of the Award was based on Net New Business flows; and

·    the remaining 1/3 was based on Net New Client levels.

(3)       As disclosed on page 53 of the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2015, the Net New Business and Net New Client performance criteria were achieved in full and 62.21% of the EPS performance target was achieved.  Accordingly, 52,441 options have vested.

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