Kainos Group PLC

Director's Dealing • Aug 12, 2021

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Kainos Group plc

12 August 2021

12 August 2021

Kainos Group plc

("Kainos" or the "Company")

Director / PDMR shareholdings

The Company was notified on 11 August 2021, that Paul Gannon, Director, sold 200,000 ordinary shares in the Company at an aggregated price of £18.01 per ordinary share.

The Company was further notified on 11 August 2021, that Mr Gannon exercised his 2017 PSP options over 19,346 ordinary shares of £0.005 in the Company and his 2018 PSP options over 15,690 ordinary shares of £0.005 in the Company, both at an exercise price of £0.005 per ordinary share. 

Mr Gannon retained the ordinary shares on exercise.

Following this notification, Mr Gannon and his Person Closely Associated (PCA) have a reportable shareholding of 7,164,044 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of the Company, constituting 5.81% of the issued share capital of the Company.

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

Paul Gannon

2.         

Reason for the notification

a.         

Position/status

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

Sale of Shares & Exercise of Options

c.         

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£18.01	200,000
£0.005	19,346
£0.005	15,690

d.         

Aggregated information

·      Aggregated volume

·      Price

N/A

e.         

Date of the transaction

11-August-2021

f.         

Place of the transaction

LSE - Regulated Market - XLON

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 2,000 people across 12 offices in Europe and North America. Kainos is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS).

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