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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Sky Plc

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RNS Number : 2465Z
JPMorgan Securities Plc
13 December 2017
 

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:

12 December 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

1,502,380

 

1,478,138

10.1200

 

10.1200

9.9900

 

9.9800

 

(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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

300,000

300,000

7

300,000

1,834

811

76

3,258

8

152

18,534

27

2,353

10

67,382

8,869

1,050

121

40,089

2,371

2,059

2,636

26,099

 

18,826

10,122

1,452

1,991

4,664

647,702

474

4,425

4,000,000

1,053

75,000

73,072

250,000

1,738

8,069

7

19,702

9.9800

9.9900

9.9954

10.0000

10.0182

10.0236

10.0253

10.0332

10.0340

10.0353

10.0430

10.0490

10.0550

10.0559

10.0665

10.0711

10.0715

10.0739

10.0800

10.0870

10.0994

10.1000

10.1172

 

10.0013

10.0025

10.0082

10.0121

10.0198

10.0237

10.0346

10.0388

10.0500

10.0503

10.0576

10.0661

10.0838

10.1101

10.1201

10.1207

10.1208

 

(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)






 

(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:

13 December 2017
Contact name:

Evangelos Galiatsatos
Telephone number:

020 7742 6148

 

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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