Grant of Options

Quindell Plc
(“Quindell”, the “Company” or the “Group”)

Quindell Plc (AIM: QPP.L), announces that as part of remuneration and incentivisation arrangements relating to the appointment of Richard Rose and Jim Sutcliffe, the Company has granted a total of 19,640,115 share options to subscribe for new ordinary shares of 15p each in the Company (“Shares”) to Richard Rose and Jim Sutcliffe:

Name Prospective Position No. of options granted
Richard Rose Non-executive Chairman 8,728,940
Jim Sutcliffe Strategy Director and Deputy Chairman 10,911,175

These options have the following key terms:

Vesting: 60 per cent. of the granted options shall vest on 15 July 2015. The remaining 40 per cent. shall vest in six equal tranches on each of 15 August 2015, 15 September 2015, 15 October 2015, 15 November 2015, 15 December 2015 and 15 January 2016; and  Exercise price: 40 per cent. of each individual granted options (and subject to vesting) shall have an exercise price of 68.65p (being the average middle market quotation of a Share for the last 5 dealing days); 20 per cent. of the granted options (and subject to vesting) shall have an exercise price of £1.00; 13.333 per cent. of the granted options (and subject to vesting) shall have an exercise price of £1.70; 13.333  per cent. of the granted options (and subject to vesting) shall have an exercise price of £ and the remainder (being 13.334 per cent.) of granted options (and subject to vesting) shall have an exercise price of £3.40.

In addition, a total of 11,625,000 share options to subscribe for Shares have today been granted as follows:

Name Position No of options granted Total no. of options now held
Robert Fielding Group CEO 6,000,000 6,625,000
Robert Thomson CEO EMEA 2,812,500 3,437,500
Tim Scurry CEO North America 2,812,500 3,229,166

These options shall vest as to one third on each anniversary of the grant and are subject to the Rules of the 2012 Quindell plc Unapproved Option Scheme and have an exercise price of 68.65p (being the average middle market quotation of a Share for the last 5 dealing days).

Once vested, all options are normally exercisable for a period of up to ten years from grant.

Following the grant of all of these options, an aggregate of 56,482,736 options will be in existence representing 12.9 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

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