Darktrace PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding
01 October 2024 - 4:00PM
RNS Regulatory News
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Darktrace PLC
01 October 2024
1 October 2024
Darktrace plc
("Darktrace")
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons
discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely
associated with them
On 26 April 2024, the boards of
directors of Luke Bidco Limited ("Bidco") and Darktrace plc
("Darktrace") announced
that they had reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a
recommended all cash acquisition by Bidco of the entire issued, and
to be issued, ordinary share capital of Darktrace (the
"Acquisition").
Pursuant to the terms of the
Acquisition agreed by Darktrace and Bidco, performance-based
conditional awards ("PSUs")
and time-based conditional awards ("RSUs") granted over ordinary shares in
the Company ("Shares")
under the Darktrace Award Incentive Plan (the "AIP Awards") vested in full on 24
September 2024, being the date that the Court sanctioned the scheme
of arrangement to implement the Acquisition, and were satisfied via
the transfer of Shares from the Company's Employee Benefit Trust
("EBT") on 27 September
2024. As a result, the following Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibilities ("PDMRs")
had AIP Awards vest and satisfied by the transfer of Shares from
the EBT to the respective PDMRs as follows:
·
Catherine Graham, CFO, acquired 511,438 Shares
following vesting of PSUs;
·
Jack Stockdale, CTO, acquired 253,408 Shares and
20,379 Shares following the vesting of PSUs and RSUs respectively;
and
·
Nicole Eagan, CSO and AI Officer, acquired 166,442
Shares and 39,925 Shares following the vesting of PSUs and RSUs
respectively.
|
Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them
("PCA")
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Name
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Catherine Graham
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Reason for the notification
|
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Position / status
|
CFO
|
|
Initial notification /
amendment
|
Initial Notification
|
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
Name
|
Darktrace plc
|
|
LEI
|
213800PC5S5P9CSNFC89
|
|
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
|
|
Description of the financial
instrument
Identification code
|
Ordinary shares
Dark / GB00BNYK8G86
|
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Acquisition of 511,438 Shares
following vesting of PSUs.
|
|
Currency
|
GBP - British Pounds
|
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
Total
|
|
|
0.00
|
511438
|
0.00
|
|
Aggregated
|
0.00
|
511438
|
0.00
|
|
|
Date of the transaction
|
27 September 2024
|
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside of a trading
venue
|
|
Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them
("PCA")
|
|
Name
|
Jack Stockdale
|
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
Position / status
|
CTO
|
|
Initial notification /
amendment
|
Initial Notification
|
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
Name
|
Darktrace plc
|
|
LEI
|
213800PC5S5P9CSNFC89
|
|
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
|
|
Description of the financial
instrument
Identification code
|
Ordinary shares
Dark / GB00BNYK8G86
|
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Acquisition of 253,408 Shares and
20,379 Shares following vesting of PSUs and RSUs
respectively.
|
|
Currency
|
GBP - British Pounds
|
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
Total
|
|
|
0.00
|
273787
|
0.00
|
|
Aggregated
|
0.00
|
273787
|
0.00
|
|
|
Date of the transaction
|
27 September 2024
|
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside of a trading
venue
|
|
Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them
("PCA")
|
|
Name
|
Nicole Eagan
|
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
Position / status
|
Chief Strategy Officer and AI
Officer
|
|
Initial notification /
amendment
|
Initial Notification
|
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
Name
|
Darktrace plc
|
|
LEI
|
213800PC5S5P9CSNFC89
|
|
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
|
|
Description of the financial
instrument
Identification code
|
Ordinary shares
Dark / GB00BNYK8G86
|
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Acquisition of 166,442 Shares and
39,925 Shares upon vesting and settlement of PSUs and RSUs
respectively
|
|
Currency
|
GBP - British Pounds
|
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
Total
|
|
|
0.00
|
206367
|
0.00
|
|
Aggregated
|
0.00
|
206367
|
0.00
|
|
|
Date of the transaction
|
27 September 2024
|
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside of a trading
venue
|
Contact:
Luk Janssens - Head of Investor
Relations, Darktrace
luk.janssens@darktrace.com
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