REG - Barclays PLC Gamma Communications - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
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RNS Number : 0112E Barclays PLC 12 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: 11 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: 1,154,662 1.27% 833,814 0.92%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 796,515 0.88% 1,143,635 1.27%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 1,951,177 2.15% 1,977,449 2.19%
(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 96,130 9.3143 GBP 9.1944 GBP
0.25p ordinary Sale 116,206 9.4350 GBP 9.2199 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 4,983 9.2195 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 15,865 9.2199 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 19,974 9.2200 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,777 9.2390 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,658 9.2804 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 677 9.2884 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,247 9.2920 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 10 9.2948 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 882 9.2989 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,105 9.3008 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 751 9.3033 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,318 9.3098 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 114 9.3183 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 48 9.3201 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 265 9.3300 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 304 9.3350 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,388 9.2100 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 24,079 9.2200 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,309 9.2377 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 98 9.2500 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 714 9.2512 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 363 9.2568 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,253 9.2572 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,228 9.2729 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,984 9.2738 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 972 9.2766 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 426 9.2869 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 518 9.2897 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 10 9.2951 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 58 9.3000 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,813 9.3221 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 286 9.2791 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 May 2026
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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