Hargreaves Lansdown PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (0356M)

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RNS Number : 0356M

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

07 October 2016

Hargreaves Lansdown plc

DIRECTOR / PDMR Shareholding

7(th) October 2016

Notification of Transaction of Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") or Connected Persons

Hargreaves Lansdown plc (the "Company") has received notification that on 5(th) October 2016 the following PDMR exercised share options as detailed below:

 
Name of Scheme         PDMR          Number of ordinary    Exercise Price  Grant Date             Number of ordinary 
                                     shares over which                                            shares over which 
                                     options were                                                 options are held 
                                     exercised                                                    following the 
                                                                                                  exercise 
---------------------  ------------  --------------------  --------------  ---------------------  -------------------- 
Unapproved share 
 option scheme         Chris Worle   15,000                GBP4.5191       28(th) September 2011  153,437 
---------------------  ------------  --------------------  --------------  ---------------------  --------------------

The market value at the date of exercise was GBP13.11. No new shares have been issued as a result of the exercise of the share options.

Mr Worle has advised that he subsequently sold a total of 9,829 ordinary shares of 0.4 pence in the Company ("ordinary shares") at a price of GBP13.11 per share on 5(th) October 2016. This sale was solely made to meet the cost of the taxation arising on their exercise and the transactions result in an overall increase in Mr Worle's holding in the Company. The number of ordinary shares sold represented 0.0021% of the ordinary shares in issue. Following these transactions, the beneficial shareholding of Mr Worle (including his connected persons) is 50,676 ordinary shares representing 0.01% of the ordinary shares in issue.

Hargreaves Lansdown (Nominees) Limited is the registered shareholder as nominee for the above PDMR.

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.2R.

Enquiries:

Judy Matthews

Company Secretary

Hargreaves Lansdown plc

+44 (0) 117 988 9880

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