20 March 2012 Collins Stewart Hawkpoint plc Issue of New Shares

Collins Stewart Hawkpoint plc (the "Company") announces that a total of 2,183,473 Ordinary Shares were issued on 16 March 2012 to the Collins Stewart Employees' Share Ownership Trust (the "ESOT"), an employee benefit trust in which employees and executive directors participate. The shares will form part of the assets of the trust and will be applied for the benefit of beneficiaries of the trust in due course at the discretion of the trustee.

The Company also announces that a total of 1,174,558 Ordinary Shares in the Company were issued to certain vendors of Corazon Capital Group Limited. The shares were issued in satisfaction of the second tranche of deferred consideration pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement and Share Plan Agreement dated 17 March 2010.

Following the above transactions, the ESOT holds a total of 9,052,253 Ordinary shares. The Company has 251,681,139 Ordinary shares in issue, of which 283,173 are held in Treasury.

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For further information contact:

Simon Pearce

Company Secretary 020 7523 8111

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