23 May 2019

Mattioli Woods plc

("Mattioli Woods" or "the Company")

Market purchase of Company shares

by the Company's Employee Benefit Trust

Mattioli Woods plc (AIM: MTW.L), the specialist wealth management and employee benefits business, confirms that Volaw Corporate Trustee Limited acting as trustee of the Mattioli Woods Employee Benefit Trust (the "Trust"), on 22 May 2019 purchased in the market 6,180 ordinary shares of nominal value of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 805 pence per share. 

The Trust holds Ordinary Shares for the benefit of the Company's employees and, in particular, to satisfy the vesting of awards made under the Company's various employee share incentive plans.  As such, Ian Mattioli, Murray Smith and Nathan Imlach, as Executive Directors, and Sara Andrews, Simon Gibson and Alan Cowan, as other persons discharging management responsibilities, are amongst the potential beneficiaries of the Trust.  

Following the above transaction, the Trust holds 12,248 Ordinary Shares for the above purpose, representing 0.05% of the Company's issued share capital with voting rights.

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