Oberon Investments Group Plc.AQUIS: OBE

Issue of EMI Options and Issue of Equity

· Issued by Oberon Investments Group Plc.

Oberon Investments Group PLC

("Oberon Investments" or the "Company")

Issue of EMI Options and Issue of Equity

Oberon Investments Group plc announces the grant on 30 May 2023 of options over 11,739,726 Ordinary shares of 0.5p each in Oberon Investments Group plc (the 'Options') to certain of its directors, PDMRs, and other members of staff. All of these options have an exercise price equal to the market value at the time the options were granted of 3.65p.

Included in the above total were options over 4,246,577 Ordinary shares which were granted to two Directors and four PDMRs under the Company's EMI Option scheme, as set out below.

Status

Exercise
price
(p)

Shares under EMI option scheme newly granted.

Total shares under EMI option scheme held by recipient after this grant

Current shareholding in Company

John Beaumont

Director

3.65

684,932

1,733,660

1,144,975

Galin Ganchev

PDMR

3.65

684,932

684,932

0

Simon Like

PDMR

3.65

273,973

14,872,701

20,415,000

Simon Mathisen

Director

3.65

684,932

1,733,660

120,168

Mike Seabrook

PDMR

3.65

547,945

2,136,928

1,253,375

Jeremy Taylor-Firth

PDMR

3.65

1,369,863

4,314,778

0

Total

4,246,577

25,476,659

22,933,518

Following these option grants, the Company has 73,827,243 shares under option. This represents, following the increase in shares mentioned below, 13.9% of the share capital of the Company.

The Company has also approved the issue of 1,888,057 new Ordinary shares of 0.5p for payment of various fees, at an average price of 3.68p per share (for a total value of £69,500). None of these shares are being issued to directors or PDMRs. These shares are expected to be admitted to trading on AQSE on 2 June 2023.

Following the issue of these shares the Company will have 534,994,840 Ordinary shares in issue. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

The above figure for total number of ordinary shares 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, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

This announcement contains information which, prior to its disclosure, was inside information as stipulated under Regulation 11 of the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/310 (as amended). 

The Directors of the Company take responsibility for this announcement.

Oberon Investments Group Plc

Simon McGivern / John Beaumont

Via Novum 

AQSE Corporate Adviser

Novum Securities Limited

Richard Potts / George Duxberry

020 7399 940

Notification and public disclosure of transaction by person discharging managerial responsibilities

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a.

Name

1)   John Beaumont

2)   Galin Ganchev

3)   Simon Like

4)   Simon Mathisen

5)   Mike Seabrook

6)   Jeremy Taylor-Firth

2

Reason for notification

a.

Position/Status

1)   Group FD

2)   PDMR

3)   PDMR

4)   Director

5)   PDMR

6)   PDMR

b.

Initial notification/

Amendment

Initial notification

3

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

a.

Name

Oberon Investments Group plc

b.

LEI

21380024SB7KJSJ69U67

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

Options over Ordinary shares of 0.5p each

ISIN Code: GB00BDZRYX75

b.

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Options

c.

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price

Volume

1)   3.65p

684,932

2)   3.65p

684,932

3)   3.65p

273,973

4)   3.65p

684,932

5)   3.65p

547,945

6)   3.65p

1,369,863

d.

Aggregated information

- Aggregated Volume

- Price



4,246,577 shares @ 3.65p

e.

Date of the transaction

30 May 2023

f.

Place of the transaction

Outside of a trading venue