Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC.


    21 July 2025 09:59:38
  • Source: Sharecast
RNS Number : 8587R
Barclays PLC
21 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:

 

18 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:

 

 

2,373,114

2.39%

605,281

0.61%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

419,336

0.42%

2,155,141

2.17%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

2,792,450

2.81%

2,760,422

2.78%

(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

305,791

39.7900  GBP

39.7000  GBP

5p ordinary

Sale

117,491

39.7879  GBP

39.7000  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 Short

38,000

39.7597  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

121

39.7000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

39

39.7094  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,283

39.7112  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

472

39.7145  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

3

39.7197  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

83

39.7200  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

34

39.7238  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,264

39.7261  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,224

39.7303  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

637

39.7323  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

289

39.7350  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

412

39.7356  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

721

39.7373  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

464

39.7393  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,162

39.7424  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

136

39.7450  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

7

39.7600  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

487

39.7628  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

33

39.7690  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

91

39.7879  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

404

39.7184  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

27,968

39.7198  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

41,132

39.7200  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

105

39.7217  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

9,600

39.7277  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

5,199

39.7307  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

511

39.7348  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

365

39.7358  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,868

39.7359  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,887

39.7378  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

4,128

39.7403  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

663

39.7419  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

735

39.7420  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

608

39.7421  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,508

39.7423  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

352

39.7424  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

231

39.7440  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

18,846

39.7454  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,051

39.7538  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

12,178

39.7552  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,899

39.7601  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

8,648

39.7646  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

53

39.7800  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

606

39.7878  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

3,568

39.7100  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

346

39.7376  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

49

39.7614  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

475

39.7669  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Short

24,348

39.7693  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

39,158

39.7341  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

694

39.7423  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

1,968

39.7469  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

5,851

39.7484  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:

21 Jul 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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