The gaming operator has announced that five of its directors have been granted a purchase option on shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Gaming operator Wynn Macau has announced it has granted a purchase option to five of its directors to subscribe for an aggregate of 4,780,000 ordinary shares at HK$0.001 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision comes in a difficult year for the industry, with Wynn Macau reporting US$280.6m (MOP2.2bn) in net losses during the third quarter, with operating revenues down 89.2 per cent year-on-year to US$474.3m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company revealed in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that director Allan Zeman received an option to subscribe to 1,992,000 shares, while Bruce Rockowitz, Jeffrey Kin-fung Lam, Nicholas Sallnow-Smith and Leah Dawn Xiaowei Ye received options on 697,000 shares each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The directors will also have the option to purchase 20 per cent of the shares included per year between December 3, 2021 to December 3, 2030 at a price per share of HK$13.84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wynn adopted a new share option scheme on May 30, 2019 for a period of 10 years covering a maximum number of 519,695,860 shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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