Vesting of LTIP awards and PDMR notifications

Keystone Law Group plc (AIM: KEYS), the fast growing, UK Top 100, challenger law firm, announces that the Company has issued 92,202 £0.002 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").  These shares have been allotted, following achievement of the performance criteria required to vest 100% of the awards, to the beneficiaries of the share awards granted on 4 July 2018, under the Keystone Law Long Term Incentive Plan 2018 ('LTIP'). Of these shares, 41,640 were allocated to PDMR's of the Group.

Name

Number of Shares

Ashley Miller (Executive Director, Finance Director)

20,820

William Robins (PDMR)

20,820

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for 92,202 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission").  It is expected that Admission will occur at 8:00 a.m. on 26 September 2022. The Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company.

Set out below are the notifications, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation.

PDMR DEALING NOTIFICATION TEMPLATE

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

Ashley Rupert James Patrick Miller

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Finance Director

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Keystone Law Group plc

b)

Legal Entity Identifier

213800RTARHELL51S215

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

Ordinary shares of £0.002 each in Keystone Law Group plc

 

Identification code

GB00BZ020557

b 1)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of LTIP Award under the Keystone Law Long Term Incentive Plan

c 1)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

Nil

20,820

b 2)

Nature of the transaction


c 2)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)                                                                                                                             

Volume(s)   


 

 

d)

Aggregated information

 

Not applicable single transaction

- Aggregated volume

- Price

e)

Date of the transaction

 15 September 2022

f)

Place of the transaction

 London

 

PDMR DEALING NOTIFICATION TEMPLATE

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

William Robins

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

PDMR

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Keystone Law Group plc

b)

Legal Entity Identifier

213800RTARHELL51S215

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

Ordinary shares of £0.002 each in Keystone Law Group plc

 

Identification code

GB00BZ020557

b 1)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of LTIP Award under the Keystone Law Long Term Incentive Plan

c 1)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

Nil

20,820

b 2)

Nature of the transaction


c 2)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)                                                                                                                             

Volume(s)


 

 

d)

Aggregated information

 

Not applicable single transaction

- Aggregated volume

- Price

e)

Date of the transaction

 15 September 2022

f)

Place of the transaction

 London

 

 

For further information please contact:

Keystone Law Group plc
James Knight, Chief Executive Officer
Ashley Miller, Finance Director
www.keystonelaw.com

+44 (0) 20 3319 3700 

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Dominic Morley (Corporate Finance)
Erik Anderson (Corporate Broking)
www.panmure.com

+44 (0) 20 7886 2500

Investec Bank plc (Joint Broker)
Carlton Nelson
James Rudd
www.investec.co.uk

+44 (0) 20 7597 5970

Media enquiries:


FTI Consulting 
Laura Ewart
[email protected]

+44 (0)7711 387 085 

 

Notes to editors

Keystone is an award-winning law firm, providing conventional legal services to SMEs and high net worth individuals in a £9bn addressable market.

Keystone has a scalable and unique model, with three defining characteristics:

  • Our lawyers have freedom, flexibility and autonomy, and are paid up to 75% of what they bill.
  • Our lawyers determine how, when and where they work, in contrast to the conventional law firm model.
  • We offer lawyers full infrastructure and support via its central office team, bespoke user-friendly IT platform, and network of colleagues and events.

 Keystone is a full-service law firm, with 20 service areas and more than 50 industry sectors delivered by nearly 400 high calibre self-employed Principal lawyers who work from their own offices.

 In November 2020, Keystone was named Law Firm of the Year by The Lawyer, the first time a 'new' law firm has won the award.

 More information about Keystone can be found at www.keystonelaw.co.uk.