London Stock Exchange Group Transaction in Own Shares

08 March 2023

London Stock Exchange Group PLC (“LSEG”)

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SECURITIES

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 679/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022:

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:07 March 2023
Number of voting ordinary shares purchased:1,880
Highest price paid per share:7,550.00p
Lowest price paid per share:7,438.00p
Volume weighted average price per share:7,512.32p

LSEG intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transactions, LSEG holds 4,304,809 of its voting ordinary shares of 679/86 pence each in treasury and has 502,814,838 voting ordinary shares of 679/86 pence each in issue (excluding treasury shares). LSEG also has 51,124,377 limited-voting ordinary shares of 679/86 pence each in issue, which carry one-tenth of a vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 507,927,276. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation 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 FCA’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as such legislation forms part of retained EU law as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by the Morgan Stanley on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is included below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

For further information, please contact:

London Stock Exchange Group plc
Lucie Holloway, Rhiannon Davies (Media)+44 (0)20 7797 1222ir@lseg.com
Peregrine Riviere (Investors)

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:  1,880 (ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34 ) 

Date of purchases:  07 March 2023

Investment firm:  Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

Aggregate information:

VenueVolume-weighted average priceAggregated volumeLowest price per shareHighest price per share
XLON7,503.86p6397,438.00p7,550.00p
TRQX7,521.21p6087,442.00p7,550.00p
BATF7,512.32p6337,512.32p7,512.32p

Detailed Information1:

Transaction DateTime (GMT)VolumePrice (GBp)Trading VenueTransaction Reference Number
07/03/202308:02:56407522.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwJ5a
07/03/202308:02:56877522.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwJ5e
07/03/202308:02:561337524.00XLONE0Di10P1vvzw
07/03/202308:02:561317526.00XLONE0Di10P1vvzj
07/03/202308:06:38887514.00XLONE0Di10P1w4O7
07/03/202308:09:50317512.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwwtc
07/03/202308:09:50107512.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwwtf
07/03/202308:09:50267512.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwwti
07/03/202308:09:50317512.00TRQXE0DhzHxHwwtl
07/03/202308:18:27907534.00TRQXE0DhzHxHxln5
07/03/202308:18:27807534.00TRQXE0DhzHxHxln7
07/03/202308:22:57637532.00TRQXE0DhzHxHyB37
07/03/202308:25:11237550.00TRQXE0DhzHxHyNI3
07/03/202308:25:11687550.00TRQXE0DhzHxHyNI5
07/03/202308:36:59897550.00XLONE0Di10P1wwz2
07/03/202315:16:121127460.00XLONE0Di10P23bq2
07/03/202315:52:2287438.00XLONE0Di10P24swC
07/03/202315:52:22787438.00XLONE0Di10P24swE
07/03/202316:22:50597442.00TRQXE0DhzHxIY4Sk
07/03/202316:36:466337512.32BATF1qktH5YwT6WJ77qL80h_fwA

The transaction shown in the last row of the table are purchases made from York Holdings II pursuant to certain arrangements entered into between Morgan Stanley and York Holdings II, as detailed in the announcement of 7 October 2022.

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