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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Amendment

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RNS Number : 0623D
GoldmanSachs International
23 January 2015
 

Amendment - due to the amendment of Equity, Derivative and Option transactions, the disclosure made on 22 January for dealings on 21 January has been updated. Sections 2(a), 2(b) and 2(c) have been updated.

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:

(GS) GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL

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

     Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

AVIVA PLC

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

FRIENDS LIFE GROUP LIMITED

(d) Date dealing undertaken:

21 January 2015

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

YES - disclosed previously for FRIENDS LIFE GROUP LIMITED

 

2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

 

(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

25p ordinary

Purchases

2,083,542

5.2979 GBP

5.1833 GBP

25p ordinary

Sales

2,402,034

5.2900 GBP

5.1650 GBP

 

 

(b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options)

 

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

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a long position

3,240

5.1833 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

3,800

5.2009 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Opening a long position

158

5.2248 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Opening a long position

199

5.2248 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Opening a long position

315

5.2248 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

903

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

1,726

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

578

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

1,065

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

74

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

1,085

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

562

5.2501 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

37,417

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

48,485

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

19,403

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

33,726

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

69,076

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

30,339

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

2,542

5.2527 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

7,436

5.2900 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a short position

1,535

5.2900 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a long position

121

5.2979 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a long position

86

5.2979 GBP

25p ordinary

CFD

Reducing a long position

13

5.2979 GBP

25p ordinary

SWAP

Reducing a short position

66,970

5.2000 GBP

25p ordinary

SWAP

Reducing a short position

40,656

5.2000 GBP

25p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing a short position

103,356

5.2916 GBP

 

 

 

(c)        Options transactions in respect of existing securities

 

(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

25p ordinary

Call Option / (1.00 : 1,000.00)

Purchasing

500 (500,000)

6.0000 GBP

AMERICAN

19/06/2015

0.0300 GBP

25p ordinary

Call Option / (1.00 : 1,000.00)

Selling

500 (500,000)

5.6000 GBP

AMERICAN

19/06/2015

0.1100 GBP

 

 

(ii)        Exercising

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

 

 

(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)


 

 



 

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:

23 January 2015
Contact name:

Aadithya Rao and Yiannis Bardis
Telephone number:

+44(20) 7051 9046 / +44(20) 7774 7107

 

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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