REG - Barclays PLC Gamma Communications - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI GAMMA COMMUNICATIONS PLC
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RNS Number : 4591F Barclays PLC 22 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: 21 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: 1,383,580 1.53% 970,183 1.07%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 938,384 1.04% 1,385,274 1.53%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 2,321,964 2.57% 2,355,457 2.60%
(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 172,868 9.9225 GBP 9.6800 GBP
0.25p ordinary Sale 110,884 9.9000 GBP 9.5870 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 3 9.5100 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 241 9.6950 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6 9.6966 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,627 9.7025 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 7 9.7200 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1 9.7223 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 30 9.7300 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1 9.7373 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 357 9.7380 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,783 9.7390 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 3,833 9.7395 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 600 9.7396 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 12,872 9.7400 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,288 9.7423 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,798 9.7506 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 846 9.7529 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 194 9.7550 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 717 9.7669 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1 9.7700 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,000 9.7840 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 75 9.7902 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,047 9.8148 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,080 9.8173 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,162 9.8180 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,137 9.8256 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 268 9.8287 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 165 9.8525 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 8,313 9.8619 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 27 9.8738 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 294 9.8997 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 237 9.9000 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,924 9.7003 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,627 9.7025 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,398 9.7078 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,328 9.7152 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 603 9.7220 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 546 9.7221 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,976 9.7222 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,055 9.7285 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2 9.7301 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 607 9.7350 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,435 9.7360 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,762 9.7364 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,196 9.7370 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 27,702 9.7400 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,523 9.7404 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,477 9.7408 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 238 9.7500 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 37,100 9.7660 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,144 9.7875 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 174 9.7949 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1 9.7950 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,166 9.7991 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 843 9.8416 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 765 9.8417 GBP
0.25p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 388 9.8625 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 1,330 9.7528 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 1,306 9.7132 GBP
0.25p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 139 9.8976 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: 22 May 2026
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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