Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI ASSURA PLC.


    16 June 2025 11:34:56
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RNS Number : 0133N
Barclays PLC
16 June 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

 

ASSURA PLC

 

relevant securities this form relates:

 

(c)

Name of the party to the offer with which exempt

ASSURA PLC

 

principal trader is connected

 

 

(d)

Date position held/dealing undertaken:

 

13 Jun 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?

PRIMARY HEALTH PROPERTIES PLC

 

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:

10p ordinary

 

Interests

Short Positions

 

Number

(%)

Number

(%)

(1)

Relevant securities owned

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

63,450,110

1.95%

3,652,498

0.11%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

3,347,728

0.10%

60,969,688

1.88%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

66,797,838

2.05%

64,622,186

1.99%

(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

10p ordinary

Purchase

2,098,488

0.5022  GBP

0.4980  GBP

10p ordinary

Sale

5,877,012

0.5022  GBP

0.4986  GBP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

Class of

Product

Nature of dealing

Number of

Price per

relevant

description

 

reference

unit

security

 

 

securities

 

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

84,810

0.4988  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

429

0.4991  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

30,909

0.4997  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

169,347

0.5001  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

153,539

0.5003  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

231,489

0.5004  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

370

0.5008  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

75,280

0.5009  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

49

0.5010  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

668,568

0.5013  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,650,754

0.5018  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

416,879

0.5022  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,000,000

0.5023  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,884

11.9649  ZAR

10p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1

12.0720  ZAR

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

11,663

0.4989  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

84,322

0.4990  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

12,243

0.4992  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

39,864

0.5000  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

300,783

0.5006  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

70,720

0.5010  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

24

0.5013  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

17,535

0.5014  GBP

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

4

12.1979  ZAR

10p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,883

12.4978  ZAR

10p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

1,873

0.4988  GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

9,038

0.5002  GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

4

12.1975  ZAR

10p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

1,883

12.4962  ZAR

10p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

1,872

0.5010  GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

122,804

0.5017  GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

1,884

11.9664  ZAR

10p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

1

12.0700  ZAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(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:

16 Jun 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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