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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Replacement of Sky Plc

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RNS Number : 8795W
Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC
17 November 2017
 

AMENDMENT Section (2b)  

 

 

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

 

1.         KEY INFORMATION

 

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:

Morgan Stanley Capital Services LLC

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

     Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

Sky Plc

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:

 

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc

(d) Date dealing undertaken:

15 NOVEMBER 2017

(e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today  disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other party to this offer?

Yes

 

2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

 

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

 

 The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

 

 

(a)        Purchases and sales

 

 Class of relevant security

 Purchases/sales

 Total   number of securities

 Highest price per unit paid/received

 Lowest price per unit paid/received

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A  

 

 

(b)        Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

 Class of relevant security

 Product description

            e.g. CFD

 Nature of dealing

e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position

 Number of reference securities

 Price per unit

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 LONG

 80,000

 8.9610 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 LONG

 20,000

 8.9610 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 LONG

 3,400

 8.9668 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 LONG

 259

 8.9952 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 2,275

 8.9645 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 3,751

 8.9645 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 28,131

 8.9711 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 17,068

 8.9712 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 2,014

 8.9734 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 30,000

 8.9740 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 4,494

 8.9741 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 7,408

 8.9741 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 15,003

 8.9790 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 9,103

 8.9790 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 19,692

 8.9792 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 11,946

 8.9793 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 6,827

 8.9825 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 11,252

 8.9825 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 53,496

 8.9844 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 49,058

 8.9844 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 188,905

 8.9844 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 125,970

 8.9844 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 600

 8.9904 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 535

 8.9909 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 894

 8.9910 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 1,843

 8.9942 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 381

 8.9950 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 43,700

 8.9966 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 100

 8.9966 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 196,561

 9.0002 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 SHORT

 8,597

 9.0002 GBP

 50p ordinary

 CFD

 LONG

 1,693,000

 8.9926 GBP

 

 

(c)        Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

 

(i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

 

 Class of relevant security

 Product description             e.g. call option

 Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.

 Number of securities to which option relates

 Exercise price per unit

 Type   e.g. American, European etc.

 Expiry date

 Option money paid/ received per unit

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 

(ii)        Exercise

 

 Class of relevant security

 Product description            e.g. call option

 Number of securities

 Exercise price per unit

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 

(d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

 

 Class of relevant security

 Nature of dealing            e.g. subscription, conversion

 Details

 Price per unit (if applicable)

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 N/A

 

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

 

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

 

 

 

3.         OTHER INFORMATION

 

(a)        Indemnity and other dealing 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:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

 

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 or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

 

None

 

 

 

 

Date of disclosure:

17 NOVEMBER 2017

Contact name:

Craig Horsley

Telephone number:

+44(141) 245 7736

 

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk.  The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

 

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

 


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