Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Amendment

Medtronic

27/01/2015 07:00

RNS Number : 1853D

GoldmanSachs International

26 January 2015

Amendment - due to the amendment of Derivative transactions, the disclosure made on 23 January for dealings on 22 January has been updated. Section 2(b) has been updated.

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:
(GS) GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:
Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree
GREENE KING PLC
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:
SPIRIT PUB COMPANY PLC
(d) Date dealing undertaken:
22 January 2015
(e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other party to this offer?
YES - disclosed previously for SPIRIT PUB COMPANY PLC

2. DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

(a) Purchases and sales

Class of relevant security
Purchases/ sales
Total number of securities
Highest price per unit paid/received
Lowest price per unit paid/received
12.5p ordinary
Purchases
181,839
8.2250 GBP
8.1250 GBP
12.5p ordinary
Sales
164,610
8.1950 GBP
8.1150 GBP

(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)

Class of relevant security
Product description
e.g. CFD
Nature of dealing
e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position
Number of reference securities
Price per unit
12.5p ordinary
CFD
Opening a long position
3,260
8.1278 GBP
12.5p ordinary
CFD
Reducing a short position
7,436
8.1659 GBP
12.5p ordinary
CFD
Reducing a long position
11
8.1727 GBP
12.5p ordinary
CFD
Opening a long position
8,100
8.1735 GBP
12.5p ordinary
CFD
Reducing a long position
42
8.1810 GBP
12.5p ordinary
SWAP
Opening a long position
1,550
8.1446 GBP
12.5p ordinary
SWAP
Opening a short position
3,844
8.1449 GBP
12.5p ordinary
SWAP
Opening a short position
1,598
8.1449 GBP
12.5p ordinary
SWAP
Opening a short position
16,410
8.1449 GBP

(c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security
Product description e.g. call option
Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.
Number of securities to which option relates
Exercise price per unit
Type
e.g. American, European etc.
Expiry date
Option money paid/ received per unit

(ii) Exercising

Class of relevant security
Product description
e.g. call option
Number of securities
Exercise price per unit

(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

Class of relevant security
Nature of dealing
e.g. subscription, conversion
Details
Price per unit (if applicable)


The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

3. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealing 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:
If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"
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 or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:
If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"
NONE

Date of disclosure:
26 January 2015
Contact name:
Aadithya Rao and Yiannis Bardis
Telephone number:
+44(20) 7051 9046 / +44(20) 7774 7107

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk. The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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