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RNS Number : 0566U Barclays PLC 05 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 ALPHAWAVE IP GROUP PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt ALPHAWAVE IP GROUP PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 04 Aug 2025
(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal YES:
trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer? AQUA ACQUISITION SUB LLC (AN INDIRECT WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF QUALCOMM
INCORPORATED)
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: 1p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 18,851,205 2.42% 6,625,278 0.85%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 4,209,533 0.54% 18,770,067 2.41%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 23,060,738 2.96% 25,395,345 3.25%
Class of relevant security: Senior unsecured convertible bond
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 4,200,000 2.80% 0 0.00%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 4,200,000 2.80% 0 0.00%
(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
1p ordinary Purchase 289,206 1.7220 GBP 1.7010 GBP
1p ordinary Sale 1,068,432 1.7220 GBP 1.7010 GBP
Senior unsecured convertible bond Purchase 1,600,000 144.5407 USD 144.5407 USD
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant description reference unit
security securities
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 439 1.7090 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,988 1.7116 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 11,182 1.7120 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,887 1.7122 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 24,000 1.7126 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 11,325 1.7133 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 20,527 1.7156 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 184 1.7169 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 29,343 1.7179 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6,589 1.7180 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 84 1.7121 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,187 1.7137 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,052 1.7140 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 21,177 1.7154 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,135 1.7159 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 14,299 1.7174 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 114 1.7176 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,767 1.7179 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 68,509 1.7180 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,323 1.7184 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 26,292 1.7187 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 6,591 1.7193 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 30 1.7100 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 8,983 1.7154 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 3,976 1.7180 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 1,080 1.7080 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 10,390 1.7115 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 2,926 1.7180 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 1,029,707 1.7218 USD
(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: 05 Aug 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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