Gregory S. Bentley - Jul 24, 2023 Form 4 Insider Report for BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC (BSY)

Signature
/s/ Michael T. Fischette, Attorney-in-Fact
Stock symbol
BSY
Transactions as of
Jul 24, 2023
Transactions value $
-$8,261,129
Form type
4
Date filed
7/26/2023, 04:14 PM
Previous filing
Jun 22, 2023
Next filing
Jul 28, 2023

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction BSY Class B Common Stock Sale -$3.06M -57.7K -0.71% $53.08 8.07M Jul 24, 2023 Direct F1, F2, F3
transaction BSY Class B Common Stock Sale -$4.92M -91.7K -1.14% $53.66 7.98M Jul 25, 2023 Direct F1, F2, F4
transaction BSY Class B Common Stock Sale -$277K -5.14K -0.06% $53.91 7.97M Jul 25, 2023 Direct F1, F2, F5
holding BSY Class B Common Stock 138K Jul 24, 2023 By spouse
holding BSY Class B Common Stock 92.7K Jul 24, 2023 By 401(K) Plan
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 As previously disclosed by Bentley Systems, Incorporated (the "Company"), during the second quarter of 2022 the Company began to exercise its right to require that certain awardees of equity compensation and recipients of distributions from the Company's nonqualified deferred compensation plan receive vested awards and distributions (as applicable) in the form of gross quantities of Company Class B Common Stock (the "Common Stock") and to require such awardees and recipients to promptly reimburse the Company for their tax withholding amounts in cash. Prior to that election, all such vesting and distributions were made on a net basis, with the Company withholding shares of Common Stock in consideration of remitting withholding taxes on behalf of recipients.
F2 Due to a 1,000 character limit, Footnote 2 is a continuation of Footnote 1: Accordingly, in light of this change in practice, the Reporting Person entered into a 10b5-1 trading plan on August 12, 2022 (the "Plan") to sell previously-owned shares of Common Stock for the primary purpose of meeting his current and future tax withholding obligations. All sales reflected on this Form 4 were made pursuant to the Plan.
F3 The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions on July 24, 2023 at prices ranging from $52.81 to $53.66. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to the Company, any security holder of the Company, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in this footnote.
F4 The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions on July 25, 2023 at prices ranging from $52.89 to $53.88. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to the Company, any security holder of the Company, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in this footnote.
F5 The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions on July 25, 2023 at prices ranging from $53.89 to $54.00. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to the Company, any security holder of the Company, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in this footnote.