REG - Barclays PLC Gamma Communications - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
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RNS Number : 7674D Barclays PLC 11 May 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: 08 May 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: 1,173,627 1.29% 835,516 0.92%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 806,739 0.89% 1,171,910 1.29%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 1,980,366 2.19% 2,007,426 2.21%
(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 112,683 9.4400 GBP 9.2320 GBP
0.25p ordinary Sale 156,124 9.4100 GBP 9.2312 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 Increasing Long 4,013 9.3201 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 11 9.2312 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,644 9.2315 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 43,123 9.2320 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 746 9.2424 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,024 9.2455 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,754 9.2461 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,464 9.2649 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 358 9.2788 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6,146 9.2979 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,598 9.3017 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1 9.3070 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 480 9.3092 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 33 9.3100 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,256 9.3107 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 277 9.3290 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,600 9.3384 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 5,867 9.3405 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2 9.3430 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,904 9.3741 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 132 9.3892 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 367 9.3934 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 105 9.3971 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 437 9.4059 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 301 9.4100 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 7,248 9.2320 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 5,234 9.2324 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 62 9.2345 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,075 9.2370 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 105 9.2817 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,020 9.3206 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,527 9.3249 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,556 9.3318 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 684 9.3359 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 6,465 9.3482 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,000 9.3549 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 183 9.3697 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,440 9.3837 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 713 9.3908 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,029 9.3963 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1 9.4420 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 2,931 9.3940 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 690 9.2327 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 138 9.3273 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: 11 May 2026
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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