LONDON, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc (the 'Company') (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) announces that on 12th December 2018 it purchased the following number of "A" Shares for cancellation.
Aggregated information on "A" shares purchased according to trading venues:
Date of purchase
| Number of "A" shares purchased
| Highest price paid (GBp)
| Lowest price paid (GBp)
| Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp)
| Venue
|
December 12, 2018
| 837,018
| 2370.00
| 2338.50
| 2353.71
| LSE
|
December 12, 2018
| 350,321
| 2369.50
| 2338.00
| 2353.40
| Cboe Europe Equities (CXE)
|
December 12, 2018
| 108,180
| 2368.50
| 2339.00
| 2354.29
| Cboe Europe Equities (BXE)
|
These share purchases form part of the second tranche of the Company's existing share buy-back programme previously announced on July 26, 2018. The Company announced the second tranche of its share buyback programme on November 1, 2018.
In respect of this programme, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's securities independently of the Company for a period from November 1, 2018 up to and including January 28, 2019.
Any such share purchases will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase shares, Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and Article 5 of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052.
In accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU, a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back programme is detailed below.
PDF: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/797832/Transaction_in_Own_Shares.pdf
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LEI number of Royal Dutch Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares
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SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc