REG - Barclays PLC Dowlais Group PLC - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
29/08/2025 11:45
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RNS Number : 2556X Barclays PLC 29 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: 28 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: 72,407,121 5.50% 1,126,963 0.09%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 598,536 0.05% 72,013,673 5.47%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 73,005,657 5.54% 73,140,636 5.56%
(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 3,045,706 0.8000 GBP 0.7900 GBP
1p ordinary Sale 1,060,909 0.8014 GBP 0.7899 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 96,003 0.7898 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 36,848 0.7899 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 39,237 0.7900 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,065 0.7901 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 14,020 0.7902 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 38,883 0.7916 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 54,828 0.7919 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 207 0.7920 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 9,778 0.7923 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 927 0.7924 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 96,003 0.7927 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,937 0.7930 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 13,349 0.7932 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 96,003 0.7936 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,871 0.7940 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 7,351 0.7944 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,510 0.7948 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 25,191 0.7949 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 40,348 0.7951 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 96,003 0.7958 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 192,005 0.7963 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 14 0.8013 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 80,248 0.7900 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,000,000 0.7905 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 6 0.7925 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 17,563 0.7941 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 58,373 0.7949 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,636 0.7958 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 651,883 0.7960 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 7,555 0.7961 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 9,686 0.7965 GBP
1p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 26,467 0.7977 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 130,125 0.7900 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 75,256 0.7939 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 54 0.7964 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 82,302 0.7900 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 26,000 0.7952 GBP
1p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 97,133 0.7956 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: 29 Aug 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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