REG - Barclays PLC Spectris PLC - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC
29/07/2025 12:00
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RNS Number : 0241T Barclays PLC 29 July 2025
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 SPECTRIS PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt SPECTRIS PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 28 Jul 2025
(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: 5p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 3,008,749 3.03% 455,199 0.46%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 269,933 0.27% 2,792,079 2.81%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 3,278,682 3.30% 3,247,278 3.27%
(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
5p ordinary Purchase 295,273 39.8200 GBP 39.7400 GBP
5p ordinary Sale 169,918 39.8200 GBP 39.7400 GBP
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant description reference unit
security securities
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 93,716 39.8138 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 338 39.7400 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 83 39.7453 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,768 39.7538 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 831 39.7591 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,519 39.7598 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 14 39.7600 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,427 39.7631 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,740 39.7647 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,270 39.7712 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6,378 39.7733 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,708 39.7792 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 650 39.7794 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 840 39.7800 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,187 39.7815 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 791 39.7818 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 84 39.7819 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 331 39.7920 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 318 39.7676 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,400 39.7679 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 636 39.7748 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 384 39.7752 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,354 39.7768 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 321 39.7772 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 107 39.7777 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 550 39.7778 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 8,214 39.7784 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,328 39.7796 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,556 39.7799 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 5,393 39.7800 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,928 39.7803 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,469 39.7810 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 244 39.7818 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,400 39.7830 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 457 39.7835 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,550 39.7836 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,543 39.7854 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 1,046 39.7876 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,400 39.7898 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 958 39.7910 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 6,455 39.7928 GBP
5p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 845 39.7973 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 1,222 39.7584 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 151 39.7864 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 18,770 39.7866 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 8,925 39.7569 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 6,643 39.7638 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 554 39.7766 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 9,045 39.7802 GBP
5p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 32 39.7834 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: 29 Jul 2025
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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