Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC.


    15 July 2025 11:30:31
  • Source: Sharecast
RNS Number : 1417R
Barclays PLC
15 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:

 

14 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:

 

 

1,849,697

1.86%

867,989

0.87%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

691,799

0.70%

1,644,249

1.66%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

2,541,496

2.56%

2,512,238

2.53%

(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

197,550

39.8718  GBP

39.7200  GBP

5p ordinary

Sale

120,150

39.8600  GBP

39.7400  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

Decreasing Short

2,000

39.7501  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

130

39.7600  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

408

39.7905  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,827

39.7927  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,148

39.7946  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

30

39.7993  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

5,401

39.8000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,720

39.8001  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,427

39.8002  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

337

39.8004  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

5,177

39.8032  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

864

39.8053  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

27

39.8074  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

76

39.8100  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

353

39.8128  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

363

39.8154  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

506

39.8224  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,323

39.8390  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

27

39.8400  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

199

39.7548  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

25

39.7572  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

3,348

39.7678  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

844

39.7690  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

18

39.7700  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,596

39.7703  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,154

39.7720  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

70

39.7745  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

6,538

39.7802  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,165

39.7828  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

3,071

39.7853  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,400

39.7878  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,298

39.7948  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

3,374

39.7962  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

22,673

39.7981  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

177

39.7987  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

3,985

39.7998  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

24,809

39.8000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

24

39.8016  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

64

39.8018  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,241

39.8052  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,793

39.8055  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

688

39.8060  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

845

39.8186  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

7,201

39.8279  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

501

39.8330  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

11,555

39.8346  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,400

39.8578  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

2,719

39.7600  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

19,869

39.7640  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

23,507

39.8000  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

4,363

39.8015  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Long

46,095

39.7800  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:

15 Jul 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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