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10 October 2016

Fairpoint Group plc

Persons Discharging Manager Responsibilities (PDMR) Notification
PDMR Notification Form Page

1 - Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

Must complete either for a natural person or a legal person. If completing for a legal person, please include the legal form as provided for in the register where it is incorporated, if applicable.

Name of natural person* First Name(s) Last Name(s)
Anita Helen Watson
Or
Legal Person *
2 - Reason for the notification

Must complete either for a natural person or a legal person. If completing for a legal person, please include the legal form as provided for in the register where it is incorporated, if applicable.

For persons discharging managerial responsibilities: the position occupied within the issuer, emission allowance market participant / auction platform / auctioneer / auction monitor should be indicated e.g. CEO, CFO.

For persons closely associated with:- An indication that the notification concerns a person closely associated with a person discharging managerial responsibilities;- Name and position of the relevant person discharging managerial responsibilities

Position/status* Spouse of Peter Watson, Managing Director of Simpson Millar LLP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairpoint Group Plc
Initial notification / Amendment * Initial notification
In case of amendment, please enter the previous notification reference number and explain the error that this notification is amending.
3 - Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
Full name of the entity * Fairpoint Group PLC
Legal Entity Identifier code N/A
4 - Details of transaction(s)

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted.
Transaction(s) summary table

Date Description of Financial Transaction Aggregated Price Aggregated Volume Total Aggregated Volume
07/10/16 Sale of shares 72.40p 25,000 25,000
10/10/16 Sale of shares 72.75p 2,778 2,778
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument * Ordinary shares of 1p each in Fairpoint Group Plc
Identification Code * GB0032360280
Nature of the transaction * Sale of shares
Currency * GBP
Price(s) and volumes(s) * Price Volume Total
72.40 25,000 £18,100.00
72.75 2,778 £2,020.99
Where more than one transaction of the same nature (purchases, sales, lendings, borrows, .) on the same financial instrument or emission allowance are executed on the same day and on the same place of transaction, prices and volumes of these transactions shall be reported in this field, in a two columns form as presented above, inserting as many lines as needed.
Using the data standards for price and quantity, including where applicable the price currency and the quantity currency, as defined under Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the reporting of transactions to competent authorities adopted under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014.
Aggregated Information Price Volume Total
72.44 27,778 £20,120.99
Date of Transaction *
Date of the particular day of execution of the notified transaction. Using the ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD; Date of trade in UTC time
2016-10-10
Place of transaction * London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)
Name and code to identify the MiFID trading venue, the systematic internaliser or the organised trading platform outside of the Union where the transaction was executed as defined under Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the reporting of transactions to competent authorities adopted under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014, or if the transaction was not executed on any of the above mentioned venues, please mention 'outside a trading venue'.

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