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RNS Number : 2734H Barclays PLC 02 May 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 PRIMARY HEALTH PROPERTIES PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt ASSURA PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 01 May 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?
ASSURA PLC
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: 12.5p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled: 10,584,789 0.79% 10,261,418 0.77%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives: 8,741,545 0.65% 9,309,073 0.70%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
purchase/sell:
19,326,334 1.45% 19,570,491 1.46%
TOTAL:
Class of relevant security: Guaranteed Convertible Bond
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled: 2,855,000 1.90% 0 0.00%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
purchase/sell:
2,855,000 1.90% 0 0.00%
TOTAL:
(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) Purchase and sales
Class of relevant Purchase/sale Total number of Highest price per unit Lowest price per unit
security
securities
paid/received
paid/received
12.5p ordinary Purchase 1668923 1.0420 GBP 1.0225 GBP
12.5p ordinary Sale 1290468 1.0410 GBP 1.0170 GBP
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product description Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant
reference
unit
security
securities
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4 1.0205 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 11,000 1.0230 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4 1.0260 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Opening Long 94,701 1.0319 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 1,166 1.0320 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 5,956 1.0326 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 5,941 1.0338 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 4,981 1.0345 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 29,389 1.0357 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Long 22,483 1.0372 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Long 3,586 1.0231 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Long 4,750 1.0247 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Long 4,425 1.0266 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Long 20,068 1.0297 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Opening Short 217,190 1.0319 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 834 1.0328 GBP
12.5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 85,676 1.0346 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 23,636 1.0319 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 83,798 1.0320 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 1,058 1.0400 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 119,769 1.0305 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 86,552 1.0319 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 22,607 1.0320 GBP
12.5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 19,796 1.0369 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: 02 May 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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