REG - Barclays PLC Dowlais Group PLC - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
12/08/2025 11:15
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RNS Number : 9997U Barclays PLC 12 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 DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 11 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? AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS INC
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: 66,116,615 5.02% 1,034,413 0.08%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 594,329 0.05% 65,224,420 4.95%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 66,710,944 5.07% 66,258,833 5.03%
(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 1,326,447 0.7580 GBP 0.7365 GBP
1p ordinary Sale 2,743,277 0.7580 GBP 0.7365 GBP
(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 6,202 0.7451 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 718,910 0.7465 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 20,129 0.7469 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 35,114 0.7471 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 8,212 0.7478 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 12,620 0.7480 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 207,775 0.7488 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 80,032 0.7491 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 73,616 0.7496 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 101,762 0.7497 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,722 0.7503 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 77,069 0.7508 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 86,911 0.7511 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,217 0.7516 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 55,288 0.7522 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 44,124 0.7542 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 44,124 0.7544 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 44,124 0.7546 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 88,248 0.7549 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 189,114 0.7550 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 248 0.7559 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 34,268 0.7074 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,200 0.7405 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 96,003 0.7451 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 96,003 0.7461 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 200 0.7485 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 96,003 0.7489 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 204,412 0.7550 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 700 0.7553 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,982 0.7559 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 237,383 0.7481 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 151,395 0.7550 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 4,432 0.7563 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 155,988 0.7461 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 234,656 0.7550 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 2,566 0.7560 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 2 0.7600 GBP
(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: 12 Aug 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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