Burford Capital Limited Announces Director/PDMR Shareholding
On April 8, 2022, Burford Capital Limited announced share purchases by Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Brause and General Counsel Mark Klein. Brause acquired 5,280 shares, totaling 10,549 shares purchased since April 1, 2022. Klein purchased 2,696 shares. These transactions are part of Burford's employee deferred compensation plan, allowing employees to defer cash compensation into shares, thereby increasing their stake without immediate tax implications. This strategy promotes employee investment in Burford's future growth and aligns management interests with shareholders.
- Management's share purchases signal confidence in the company's future.
- Use of a tax-efficient employee deferred compensation plan fosters long-term investment.
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Notification of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities
GUERNSEY / ACCESSWIRE / April 8, 2022 / Burford Capital Limited, the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law, provides the following notification of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities (each, a "PDMR").
Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Brause and General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer Mark Klein have used their respective cash compensation to purchase additional ordinary shares of nil par value of Burford Capital (the "Shares") through the Burford employee deferred compensation plan. The investments made on April 5, 2022 and April 6, 2022, respectively, total 7,976 Shares, consisting of 5,280 Shares to Mr Brause (resulting in total Shares purchased of 10,549 including Shares purchased on April 1, 2022) and 2,696 Shares to Mr Klein.
Further details about the Burford employee deferred compensation plan can be found in Burford's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2022. In essence, Burford employees are able to elect to defer cash compensation, without incurring current taxes, into the Burford employee deferred compensation plan, which in turn permits the full amount of that deferred compensation to be allocated to the Shares (or for other investment options). It is intended that, as previously announced, the Burford employee deferred compensation plan will then buy the Shares on the open market. This is a tax-efficient way for employees to continue to accumulate exposure to the Shares.
The Notification of Dealing Forms for each of the transactions set forth above are included at the end of this announcement.
For further information, please contact:
Burford Capital Limited | |
Robert Bailhache, Head of Investor Relations, EMEA and Asia - email | +44 (0)20 3530 2023 |
Jim Ballan, Head of Investor Relations, Americas - email | +1 (646) 793 9176 |
Numis Securities Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker | +44 (0)20 7260 1000 |
Giles Rolls | |
Charlie Farquhar | |
Jefferies International Limited - Joint Broker | +44 (0)20 7029 8000 |
Graham Davidson | |
Tony White |
About Burford Capital
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, DC, Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong.
For more information, please visit www.burfordcapital.com.
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any ordinary shares or other securities of Burford.
This release does not constitute an offer of any Burford fund. Burford Capital Investment Management LLC, which acts as the fund manager of all Burford funds, is registered as an investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The information provided herein is for informational purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The information contained herein is not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities (including, without limitation, interests or shares in the funds). Any such offer or solicitation may be made only by means of a final confidential private placement memorandum and other offering documents.
Forward-looking statements
This announcement contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future events. These statements are intended as "forward-looking statements". In some cases, predictive, future-tense or forward-looking words such as "aim", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "could", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "guidance", "intend", "may", "plan", "potential", "predict", "projected", "should" or "will" or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. In addition, we and our representatives may from time to time make other oral or written statements which are forward-looking statements, including in our periodic reports that we file with, or furnish to, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, other information sent to our security holders and other written materials. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. We caution you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on numerous assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs and that our actual results of operations, including our financial position and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which we operate, may differ materially from (and be more negative than) those made in, or suggested by, the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement. Significant factors that may cause actual results to differ from those we expect include those discussed under "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2022and other reports or documents that we file with, or furnish to, the US Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. In addition, even if our results of operations, including our financial position and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which we operate are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, those results of operations or developments may not be indicative of results or developments in subsequent periods.
Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
(a) Name | Kenneth Brause | ||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||
(a) Position/status | A PDMR occupying the position of Chief Financial Officer | ||
(b) Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||
(a) Name | Burford Capital Limited | ||
(b) LEI | 549300FUKUWFYJMT2277 | ||
| 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 | ||
Identification code | GG00BMGYLN96 | ||
(b) Nature of the transaction | Allocation of fully vested notional Ordinary Shares equivalent to a deferred amount of cash compensation under Burford's deferred compensation plan | ||
(c) Price(s)and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| 5,280 | |||
(d) Aggregated information
| N/A | ||
(e) Date of the transaction | 5 April 2022 | ||
(f) Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
(a) Name | Mark Klein | ||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||
(a) Position/status | A PDMR occupying the position of General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer | ||
(b) Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||
(a) Name | Burford Capital Limited | ||
(b) LEI | 549300FUKUWFYJMT2277 | ||
| 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 | ||
Identification code | GG00BMGYLN96 | ||
(b) Nature of the transaction | Allocation of fully vested notional Ordinary Shares equivalent to a deferred amount of cash compensation under Burford's deferred compensation plan | ||
(c) Price(s)and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| 2,696 | |||
(d) Aggregated information
| N/A | ||
(e) Date of the transaction | 6 April 2022 | ||
(f) Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
(a) Name | Kenneth Brause | ||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||
(a) Position/status | A PDMR occupying the position of Chief Financial Officer | ||
(b) Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||
(a) Name | Burford Capital Limited | ||
(b) LEI | 549300FUKUWFYJMT2277 | ||
| 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 | Notional Ordinary Shares | ||
Identification code | GG00BMGYLN96 | ||
(b) Nature of the transaction | Allocation of unvested notional Ordinary Shares pursuant to the provisions of Burford's deferred compensation plan due to vest in 2024 | ||
(c) Price(s)and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| $ Nil | 1,742 | ||
(d) Aggregated information
| N/A | ||
(e) Date of the transaction | 5 April 2022 | ||
(f) Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
(a) Name | Mark Klein | ||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||
(a) Position/status | A PDMR occupying the position of General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer | ||
(b) Initial notification /Amendment | Initial | ||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||
(a) Name | Burford Capital Limited | ||
(b) LEI | 549300FUKUWFYJMT2277 | ||
| 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 | Notional Ordinary Shares | ||
Identification code | GG00BMGYLN96 | ||
(b) Nature of the transaction | Allocation of unvested notional Ordinary Shares pursuant to the provisions of Burford's deferred compensation plan due to vest in 2024 | ||
(c) Price(s)and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) | |
| $ Nil | 890 | ||
(d) Aggregated information
| N/A | ||
(e) Date of the transaction | 6 April 2022 | ||
(f) Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||
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