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Barclays PLC

02 May 2025

FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1.				KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Name of exempt principal trader:				BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose				DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
	relevant securities this form relates:
(c)	Name of the party to the offer with which exempt				DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
	principal trader is connected
(d)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:				01 May 2025
(e)	In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal				YES:
	trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?				AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS INC
2.				POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree
	to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security:				1p ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1)	Relevant securities owned
	and/or controlled:			45,328,230	3.37%	2,802,297	0.21%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			1,396,898	0.10%	44,478,650	3.31%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%

	TOTAL:			46,725,128	3.48%	47,280,947	3.52%
(b)	Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other executive
	options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3.				DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Purchases and sales
Class of relevant		Purchase/sale		Total number of		Highest price per unit	Lowest price per unit
security				securities		paid/received	paid/received
1p ordinary		Purchase		1,813,971		0.5907 GBP	0.5755 GBP
1p ordinary		Sale		1,129,204		0.5915 GBP	0.5764 GBP

(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of		Product		Nature of dealing		Number of	Price per
relevant		description				reference	unit
security						securities
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,915	0.5764 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		48,402	0.5769 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		96,675	0.5780 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		11,680	0.5798 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7,453	0.5800 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,899	0.5801 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		19,375	0.5817 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,088	0.5831 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,291	0.5836 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		269,188	0.5855 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,211	0.5887 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		32,891	0.5889 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,508	0.5890 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		128,954	0.5905 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4,382	0.5755 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,915	0.5758 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,269	0.5765 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,168	0.5774 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		12,506	0.5783 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,815	0.5785 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		24,744	0.5798 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		40,441	0.5806 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,126	0.5855 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,565,172	0.5889 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		43,617	0.5890 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		13,055	0.5901 GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		17,739	0.5907 GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Long		35,643	0.5889 GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Long		394,861	0.5890 GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Long		9,850	0.5893 GBP

(c)	Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i)	Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class	Product	Writing,	Number	Exercise	Type	Expiry	Option
of	description	purchasing,	of	price		date	money
relevant		selling,	securities	per unit			paid/
security		varying etc	to which				received
			option				per unit
			relates


(ii)	Exercising
Class of relevant		Product description		Exercising/ exercised against		Number of	Exercise price per
security						securities	unit


(d)	Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant		Nature of Dealings		Details		Price per unit (if
security						applicable)

4.				OTHER INFORMATION
(a)	Indemnity and other dealings arrangements
Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding,
formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal
or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b)	Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between
the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to:
(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or
(ii) the voting rights of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c)	Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?				NO
Date of disclosure:				02 May 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI DOWLAIS GROUP PLC.

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