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Baron Oil PLC

26 May 2020

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26 May 2020

Baron Oil Plc

("Baron Oil", "Baron" or "the Company")

Establishment of EMI Scheme and Initial grant of Share Options

Baron Oil (AIM: BOIL), the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration and production company focused on opportunities in SE Asia, Latin America and the UK announces the establishment of an Enterprise Management Incentive ("EMI") scheme and an initial grant of share options.

The EMI is an HMRC approved tax efficient option scheme that enables companies to attract and retain key staff by rewarding them with equity participation in the business. The scheme will be open to all Baron employees who qualify under the HMRC rules.

The creation of the EMI scheme follows the Company's decision in January 2020 to continue to develop its portfolio of assets as an independent exploration company. As disclosed in the recently published Annual Report for 2019 and latest QCA statement, the Remuneration Committee was tasked with reviewing the incentive opportunities available for the management team with a view to aligning the interests of all stakeholders.

In the past, the granting of share options by the Company has been somewhat sporadic and short term in nature. Without the inclusion of today's EMI awards, the number of shares under option, on a fully diluted basis, would rapidly have fallen to 0.65%.

The Company has today issued share options over a total of 290,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.025 pence each in the Company ("Share Options") to the following individuals - Malcolm Butler, Executive Chairman (125,000,000), Andrew Yeo, Managing Director (125,000,000) and Geoffrey Barnes, Financial Controller and Company Secretary (40,000,000). These vested options have a 10 year life from the date of issue and an exercise price of 0.1p. This is a premium of 21 % to the mid-market share price at the close on 22 May 2020 but matches the Placing Price of the Baron funding round in Q1 2020, which included a GBP57,500 subscription by the directors. This will increase the fully diluted option pool to an initial 7.12%, reducing to 6.54% when certain existing options expire in July 2020.

While it is the intention of the Company to continue to make use of the EMI scheme going forward, it is mindful of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) recommendation that such share option awards should not represent more than 10% of the Company's fully diluted share capital at any time.

Following the issue of these Share Options, the number of Share Options held by Directors and Employees is as follows:

 
 EMI               New           Exercise   Existing     Exercise    Total         % Fully 
                                                                                    Diluted 
 Option Holder     Options       Price      Options      Price       Options       Shares***** 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 Malcolm Butler    125,000,000   0.1p*      20,000,000   0.35p**     155,000,000   3.15 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
                                            10,000,000   0.435p*** 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 Andrew Yeo        125,000,000   0.1p*      10,000,000   0.44p****   135,000,000   2.74 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 Geoffrey 
  Barnes           40,000,000    0.1p*      10,500,000   0.35p**     60,500,000    1.23 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
                                            10,000,000   0.435p*** 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 Total             290,000,000              60,500,000               350,500,000   7.12 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 Post 7 July 
  2020             290,000,000              30,000,000               320,000,000   6.54 
                  ------------  ---------  -----------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 * Exercisable at any time prior to 25 May 2030 
 ** Options expire on 7 July 2020 
 *** Exercisable at any time prior to 27 November 2021 
 **** Exercisable at any time prior to 3 December 2021 
 ***** Current Ord. shares in issue 4,426,409,576; FD 4,932,034,576; 
  FD post 7 July 2020 4,891,034,576 
 

For further information, please contact:

 
Baron Oil Plc                           +44 (0)20 7117 2849 
Dr Malcolm Butler, Executive Chairman 
Andy Yeo, Managing Director 
 
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP          +44 (0)20 3470 0470 
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker 
Stuart Gledhill, Caroline Rowe 
 
Turner Pope Investments (TPI) Limited   +44 (0)20 3657 0050 
Joint Broker 
Andy Thacker, Zoe Alexander 
 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 
 1.     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
         closely associated 
  (a)   Full name of person Dealing                     i. Malcolm Butler 
                                                         ii. Andrew Yeo 
                                                         iii. Geoffrey Barnes 
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 2.     Reason for notification 
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  (b)   Position/status                                 i. Executive Chairman 
                                                         ii. Managing Director 
                                                         ii. Financial Controller 
                                                         and Company Secretary 
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  (c)   Initial notification/ Amendment            Initial notification 
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 3.     Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
         auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  (d)   Name of entity                             Baron Oil Plc 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
  (e)   LEI                                        213800MBSOS9UZ5SW712 
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 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,   Ordinary shares of 
         type of instrument                         0.025 pence each in 
                                                    the Company 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
  (b)   Identification code                        GB00B01QGH57 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
  (c)   Nature of the transaction                  Grant of options 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
  (d)   Price(s) and volume(s)                      Prices(s)      Volume(s) 
                                                      i. 0.1      i. 125,000,000 
                                                       pence      ii. 125,000,000 
                                                      ii. 0.1     iii. 40,000,000 
                                                       pence 
                                                      iii. 0.1 
                                                       pence 
                                                                ----------------- 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
  (e)   Aggregated information:                    Transaction as in 
         - Aggregated volume                        4(d) above Prices(s)     Volume(s) 
         - Price                                     0.1 pence    290,000,000 
                                                                 ------------ 
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  (f)   Date of transaction                        26 May 2020 
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  (g)   Place of transaction                       Outside a trading 
                                                    venue 
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