REG - Barclays PLC Gamma Communications - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
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RNS Number : 1259B Barclays PLC 20 April 2026
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 GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 17 Apr 2026
(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal NO
trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
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: 0.25p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 1,495,123 1.64% 474,532 0.52%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 434,407 0.48% 1,489,267 1.64%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 1,929,530 2.12% 1,963,799 2.16%
(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
0.25p ordinary Purchase 158,372 9.2590 GBP 9.0300 GBP
0.25p ordinary Sale 133,276 9.2357 GBP 9.0620 GBP
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant description reference unit
security securities
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1 9.0868 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 649 9.1071 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 10,288 9.1148 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,332 9.1281 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 48 9.1293 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 9,233 9.1300 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 391 9.1301 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,725 9.1309 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 504 9.1315 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,666 9.1352 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 495 9.1367 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 915 9.1401 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 230 9.1419 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 255 9.1464 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,592 9.1467 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,435 9.1704 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 140 9.1747 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 239 9.1819 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,466 9.1911 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 7 9.1965 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,098 9.1982 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 230 9.2000 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 149 9.2003 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,129 9.2053 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 857 9.2137 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3 9.2168 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 142 9.2356 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 207 9.0300 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 385 9.0382 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 32 9.0593 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1 9.0631 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 277 9.0639 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 547 9.0749 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 97 9.0759 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1 9.0871 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1 9.0900 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 633 9.0987 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 15 9.1020 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,000 9.1085 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 143 9.1180 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 531 9.1288 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,565 9.1300 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,336 9.1304 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,494 9.1313 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,150 9.1399 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 14,029 9.1434 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,430 9.1548 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 147 9.1823 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 9 9.2185 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 8,393 9.0881 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 2,141 9.1677 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: 20 Apr 2026
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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