Horizon Discovery Group plc Director PDMR Shareholding
Location: Cambridge
02/12/2016
Cambridge, UK, 2 December 2016: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or the “Company”), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces that certain directors of the Company purchased ordinary shares of 1.0p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). Details of these purchases of Ordinary Shares, and each Director's resulting beneficial interest in the Company's issued share capital, are shown below:
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Name of Director |
Number of Ordinary Shares purchased |
Average purchase price per share (pence) |
Resulting number of Ordinary Shares held |
Resulting number of Ordinary Shares held as a percentage of the Company's issued share capital |
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Dr Darrin Disley |
25,000 |
117.0 |
714,523 |
0.75% |
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Dr Ian Gilham |
25,000 |
117.9 |
56,488 |
0.06% |
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Dr Jonathan Milner* Location: Cambridge 02/12/2016 Cambridge, UK, 2 December 2016: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or the “Company”), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces that certain directors of the Company purchased ordinary shares of 1.0p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). Details of these purchases of Ordinary Shares, and each Director's resulting beneficial interest in the Company's issued share capital, are shown below:
*Mr Milner's purchase of Ordinary Shares was made by his wife (Mrs Roza Gounari) and is therefore considered a beneficial holding of Mr Milner's. ** Mrs Susan Searle purchased these Ordinary Shares for her Self-Invested Personal Pension fund. The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail. Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.
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91,000 |
115.0 |
9,790,680 |
10.28% |
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Mrs Susan Searle** |
10,000 |
118.0 |
54,691 |
0.06% |
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Mr Richard Vellacott |
20,000 |
117.0 |
27,000 |
0.03% |
*Mr Milner's purchase of Ordinary Shares was made by his wife (Mrs Roza Gounari) and is therefore considered a beneficial holding of Mr Milner's.
** Mrs Susan Searle purchased these Ordinary Shares for her Self-Invested Personal Pension fund.
The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a) |
Name |
Dr Darrin Disley |
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2 |
Reason for the notification |
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a) |
Position/status |
Chief Executive Officer |
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b) |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial Notification |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
Horizon Discovery Group plc |
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b) |
Legal Entity Identifier |
N/A |
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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 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary shares of 1.0p each GB00BK8FL363 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of shares |
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c) |
Currency |
GBP |
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d) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) |
Volume(s) |
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117.0p |
25,000 |
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e) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
25,000 117.0p £29,250 |
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f) |
Date of the transaction |
2 December 2016 |
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g) |
Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a) |
Name |
Dr Ian Gilham |
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2 |
Reason for the notification |
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a) |
Position/status |
Non-Executive Chairman |
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b) |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial Notification |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
Horizon Discovery Group plc |
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b) |
Legal Entity Identifier |
N/A |
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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 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary shares of 1.0p each GB00BK8FL363 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of shares |
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c) |
Currency |
GBP |
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d) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) |
Volume(s) |
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117.9p |
25,000 |
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e) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
25,000 117.9p £29,475 |
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f) |
Date of the transaction |
1 December 2016 |
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g) |
Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a) |
Name |
Dr Jonathan Milner |
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2 |
Reason for the notification |
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a) |
Position/status |
Non-Executive Director |
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b) |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial Notification |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
Horizon Discovery Group plc |
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b) |
Legal Entity Identifier |
N/A |
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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 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary shares of 1.0p each GB00BK8FL363 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of shares |
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c) |
Currency |
GBP |
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d) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) |
Volume(s) |
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115.0p |
91,000 |
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e) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
91,000 115.0p £104,650 |
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f) |
Date of the transaction |
1 December 2016 |
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g) |
Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a) |
Name |
Mrs Susan Searle |
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2 |
Reason for the notification |
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a) |
Position/status |
Non-Executive Director |
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b) |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial Notification |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
Horizon Discovery Group plc |
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b) |
Legal Entity Identifier |
N/A |
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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 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary shares of 1.0p each GB00BK8FL363 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of shares (for Self-Invested Personal Pension fund). |
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c) |
Currency |
GBP |
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d) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) |
Volume(s) |
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118.0p |
10,000 |
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e) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
10,000 118.0p £11,800 |
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f) |
Date of the transaction |
1 December 2016 |
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g) |
Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM |
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1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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a) |
Name |
Mr Richard Vellacott |
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2 |
Reason for the notification |
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a) |
Position/status |
Chief Financial Officer |
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b) |
Initial notification /Amendment |
Initial Notification |
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3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
Horizon Discovery Group plc |
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b) |
Legal Entity Identifier |
N/A |
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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 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
Ordinary shares of 1.0p each GB00BK8FL363 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Purchase of shares |
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c) |
Currency |
GBP |
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d) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) |
Volume(s) |
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117.0p |
20,000 |
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e) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
20,000 117.0p £23,400 |
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f) |
Date of the transaction |
10,000 shares purchased at 117.0p per share on 1 December 2016; and 10,000 shares purchased at 117.0p per share on 2 December 2016. |
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g) |
Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange, AIM |