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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Sky PLC Amendment

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By LSE RNS

RNS Number : 7861D
JPMorgan Securities Plc
28 April 2017
 

AMENDMENT

INCREASED EQUITY PURCHASES BY 544,500 TO 1,141,979

INCREASED EQUITY SALES BY 7,358 TO 425,662

ADDED EQUITY SWAP PURCHASES OF 7,358

ADDED EQUITY SWAP SALES OF 544,500

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:

J.P. Morgan Securities Plc

(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:

05 April 2017

(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to this offer?

     If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"

N/A

 

 

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

(GBP)

Lowest price per unit paid/received

(GBP)

Ordinary Shares

 

Purchases

 

Sales

1,141,979

 

425,662

9.7350

 

9.7310

9.6390

 

9.6388

 

(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

(GBP)

Ordinary Shares

Equity Swaps

 

 

Long

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short

42,273

1,138

10,180

697

640

6

529

7,680

44

27,500

25,000

832

42,500

56

50,000

7,408

3,283

1,909

552

7,534

53

2,946

3,679

3,630

49

465

11,223

1,945

194

 

3,664

100,000

180,000

50,000

1,189

111,490

16,554

200,000

78,500

88,465

21,545

2,526

1,223

924

82,700

310

9.6575

9.6590

9.6592

9.6603

9.6614

9.6640

9.6650

9.6667

9.6671

9.6776

9.6805

9.6818

9.6826

9.6830

9.6836

9.6858

9.6865

9.6867

9.6868

9.6870

9.6888

9.6918

9.6939

9.6940

9.6941

9.7036

9.7075

9.7193

9.7310

 

9.6575

9.6596

9.6772

9.6865

9.6925

9.6942

9.6995

9.6997

9.7022

9.7030

9.7075

9.7120

9.7165

9.7207

9.7297

9.7302

 

(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 (GBP)

Type

e.g. American, European etc.

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit

(GBP)

Ordinary Shares








                       

(ii)        Exercise

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

(GBP)

Ordinary Shares





 

(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) (GBP)


 

 



 

 

(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:

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included.  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:

28 April 2017

Contact name:

Tung Le

Telephone number:

020 7742 7272

 

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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