UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
( ) Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16.
Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instructions 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
COHEN, STANLEY B.
2300 Windy Ridge Parkway
Suite 100 North
Marietta, GA 30339-8426
USA
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
The Profit Recovery Group International, Inc.
PRGX
3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)
4. Statement for Month/Year
January 1999
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
(X) Director ( ) 10% Owner ( ) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other
(specify below)
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
(X) Form filed by One Reporting Person
( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1. Title of Security |2. |3. |4.Securities Acquired (A) |5.Amount of |6.Dir |7.Nature of Indirect |
| Transaction | or Disposed of (D) | Securities |ect | Beneficial Ownership |
| | | | Beneficially |(D)or | |
| | | | | A/| | Owned at |Indir | |
| Date |Code|V| Amount | D | Price | End of Month |ect(I)| |
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<S> <C> <C> <C><C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Common Stock, No par value | | | | | | |321,916(1) |D | |
per share | | | | | | | | | |
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Common Stock, No par value | | | | | | |183,084(1) |I |By Trust |
per share | | | | | | | | | |
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Table II -- Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1.Title of Derivative |2.Con- |3. |4. |5.Number of De |6.Date Exer|7.Title and Amount |8.Price|9.Number |10.|11.Nature of|
Security |version |Transaction | rivative Secu |cisable and| of Underlying |of Deri|of Deriva |Dir|Indirect |
|or Exer | | | rities Acqui |Expiration | Securities |vative |tive |ect|Beneficial |
|cise | | | red(A) or Dis |Date(Month/| |Secu |Securities |(D)|Ownership |
|Price of| | | posed of(D) |Day/Year) | |rity |Benefi |or | |
|Deriva- | | | |Date |Expir| | |ficially |Ind| |
|tive | | | | A/|Exer-|ation| Title and Number | |Owned at |ire| |
|Secu- | | | | | D |cisa-|Date | of Shares | |End of |ct | |
|rity |Date |Code|V| Amount | |ble | | | |Month |(I)| |
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Option (Right to Purch|37.44 |1/19/|A |V|7,500 |A |** |1/19/|Common Stock|7,500 |N/A |7,500 |D | |
ase)* | |99 | | | | | |09 | | | | | | |
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Explanation of Responses:
* Option was issued on January 19, 1999, effective as of 12/31/98, pursuant
to performance criteria that were
not subject to calculation until January 1999.
** Option vests in five equal installments of 1,500 shares each, with 20%
exercisable on 12/31/98, 40% on
12/31/99, 60% on 12/31/00, 80% on 12/31/01, and 100% on
12/31/02.
(1) Since the reporting person's last report, 5,388 shares previously held
through a trust have been distributed
and are now directly
held.
SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON
STANLEY B. COHEN
DATE
May 8, 1999
