Acquisition of shares by dire

ROBERT WALTERS PLC

("the Company")

Acquisition of Shares by Directors

Robert Walters plc announces that Robert Walters, the Company's Chief Executive, Giles Daubeney, Chief Operating Officer and Alan Bannatyne, Group Finance Director, have today acquired a total of 139,473 shares in the Company.

A total of 99,425 shares were purchased in the market at a price of £2.08 and Mr Bannatyne has exercised options to acquire 25,000 shares at £1.35 per share and 15,048 shares at £1.03 per share, under the terms of The Robert Walters Executive Share Option Scheme.

As a result of the above transactions, Mr Walters', Mr Daubeney's and Mr Bannatyne's overall shareholdings in the Company have increased, as follows:

Following the transactions above, for the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, we would like to notify the market of the following:

Robert Walters plc's issued share capital consists of 85,283,751 ordinary shares with voting rights. Robert Walters plc holds 8,497,075 ordinary shares in Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Robert Walters plc is 76,786,676.

The above figure (76,786,676) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Robert Walters plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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