Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC.


    27 August 2025 10:46:36
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RNS Number : 8775W
Barclays PLC
27 August 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:

 

26 Aug 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:

 

 

2,885,188

2.90%

387,092

0.39%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

174,799

0.18%

2,673,715

2.69%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

3,059,987

3.08%

3,060,807

3.08%

(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

434,908

40.4900  GBP

40.3959  GBP

5p ordinary

Sale

379,941

40.5050  GBP

40.3993  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

209

40.3993  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

3,868

40.4000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

3,145

40.4056  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

995

40.4084  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,884

40.4123  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

21

40.4200  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

7,200

40.4319  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

319

40.4365  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

37

40.4400  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,186

40.4490  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

766

40.4580  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

8

40.4727  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

38,798

40.4000  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

4,410

40.4040  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

11,586

40.4070  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

975

40.4150  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,272

40.4200  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

10

40.4232  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

58

40.4300  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

458

40.4306  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

107

40.4314  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

887

40.4325  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

421

40.4327  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

861

40.4398  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

10,950

40.4448  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

8,769

40.4468  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,196

40.4471  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

3,401

40.4476  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

136

40.4479  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,605

40.4485  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

68

40.4519  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

775

40.4562  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,415

40.4603  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,144

40.4720  GBP

5p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

128

40.4729  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Opening Long

142,487

40.4000  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

6,620

40.4095  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

21,908

40.4255  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Opening Short

146,208

40.4000  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

971

40.4139  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

555

40.4262  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

6,089

40.4600  GBP

5p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

34

40.4623  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:

27 Aug 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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