Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC.


    02 July 2025 13:31:49
  • Source: Sharecast
RNS Number : 4461P
Barclays PLC
02 July 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

 

SPECTRIS PLC

 

relevant securities this form relates:

 

(c)

Name of the party to the offer with which exempt

SPECTRIS PLC

 

principal trader is connected

 

 

(d)

Date position held/dealing undertaken:

 

01 Jul 2025

(e)

In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal

NO

 

 

 

trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?

 

 

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:

5p ordinary

 

Interests

Short Positions

 

Number

(%)

Number

(%)

(1)

Relevant securities owned

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

1,427,341

1.44%

732,789

0.74%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

527,785

0.53%

1,213,436

1.22%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

1,955,126

1.97%

1,946,225

1.96%

(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

5p ordinary

Purchase

273,672

38.4200  GBP

38.2600  GBP

5p ordinary

Sale

301,323

38.4200  GBP

38.2000  GBP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

Class of

Product

Nature of dealing

Number of

Price per

relevant

description

 

reference

unit

security

 

 

securities

 

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

555

38.2500  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

446

38.2681  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

1,272

38.2980  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

3

38.2986  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

9,856

38.3000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

5,674

38.3009  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

5,468

38.3024  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

2,882

38.3165  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

2,005

38.3172  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

8,442

38.3177  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

682

38.3262  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

251

38.3288  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

151

38.3290  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

19,095

38.3346  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

5,417

38.3363  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

356

38.3397  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

192

38.3414  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

250

38.3420  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

2,323

38.3467  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

82

38.3500  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

2,154

38.3543  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

1,624

38.3575  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

436

38.3583  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

424

38.3604  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

18

38.3744  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

159

38.3800  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Long

78

38.3848  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

1,669

38.3000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

1,138

38.3058  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

239

38.3100  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

2,537

38.3133  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

154

38.3138  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

3,293

38.3349  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

1,608

38.3359  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

49,000

38.3370  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

318

38.3430  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

12,513

38.3431  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

5,214

38.3445  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

593

38.3486  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

4,062

38.3521  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

3,531

38.3533  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

2,491

38.3542  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

12,825

38.3551  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

176

38.3581  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

30

38.3600  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

7,174

38.3690  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Long

18

38.3700  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

4,234

38.3122  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

8,145

38.3245  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Opening Long

29,993

38.3365  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

24,278

38.3784  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Long

670

38.3870  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 Jul 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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