19th Mar 2008 11:53
UBS AG (EPT)19 March 2008 FORM 38.5(b) DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RI STATUS BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY (Rule 38.5(b) of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader UBS AG London BranchCompany dealt in BHP Billiton PlcClass of relevant security to which the 0.5 USD Ordinarydealings being disclosed relate (Note 1)Date of dealing 18 MARCH 2008 2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE (a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant security dealt in (Note 2) Long Short Number (%) Number (%)(1) Relevant securities 8,612,614 0.39% 5,261,411 0.24%(2) Derivatives (other thanoptions)(3) Options and agreements topurchase/sellTotal 8,612,614 0.39% 5,261,411 0.24% (b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other than the class dealt in (Note 2) Class of relevant security: Long Short Number (%) Number (%)(1) Relevant securities(2) Derivatives (other thanoptions)(3) Options and agreements topurchase/sellTotal (c) Rights to subscribe (Note 2)Class of relevant security: Details 3. DEALINGS (Note 3) (a) Purchases and sales Purchase/sale Number of securities Price per unit (Note 4) PURCHASE 417 1497 pence PURCHASE 25 1497 PURCHASE 880 1482 PURCHASE 648 1482 PURCHASE 565 1479 PURCHASE 402 1479 PURCHASE 842 1480 PURCHASE 850 1480 PURCHASE 188 1479 PURCHASE 648 1478 PURCHASE 2211 1477 PURCHASE 1000 1477 PURCHASE 700 1479 PURCHASE 1000 1479 PURCHASE 827 1479 PURCHASE 400 1479 PURCHASE 1229 1479 PURCHASE 1000 1477 PURCHASE 1000 1477 PURCHASE 500 1477 PURCHASE 2000 1477 PURCHASE 827 1477 PURCHASE 5000 1476 PURCHASE 1012 1476 PURCHASE 551 1476 PURCHASE 600 1476 SALE 802 1475 PURCHASE 509 1475 PURCHASE 1776 1475 PURCHASE 1578 1475 PURCHASE 505 1474 PURCHASE 27 1474 PURCHASE 648 1474 PURCHASE 314 1473 PURCHASE 3709 1472 PURCHASE 1500 1472 PURCHASE 2122 1472 PURCHASE 827 1472 PURCHASE 827 1472 PURCHASE 990 1472 PURCHASE 2988 1472 PURCHASE 1000 1472 PURCHASE 465 1472 PURCHASE 827 1472 PURCHASE 1007 1473.5 PURCHASE 131 1473.5 SALE 4839 1480 PURCHASE 1644 1481 PURCHASE 210 1481 PURCHASE 1000 1481 PURCHASE 899 1481 SALE 325 1482 SALE 500 1482 SALE 214 1482 SALE 113 1482 SALE 3379 1482 SALE 305 1479 SALE 100 1479 SALE 11 1479 SALE 170 1479 SALE 189 1479 SALE 121 1479 SALE 120 1479 SALE 59 1479 PURCHASE 311 1478 SALE 304 1478 SALE 36 1478 SALE 180 1478 SALE 184 1477 PURCHASE 1112 1478 PURCHASE 46 1478 PURCHASE 1981 1478 PURCHASE 1660 1478 PURCHASE 213 1478 SALE 82 1479 SALE 2225 1479 SALE 175 1479 SALE 168 1479 PURCHASE 2373 1481 PURCHASE 142 1481 SALE 141 1484 SALE 3180 1483 PURCHASE 932 1478 PURCHASE 168 1479 PURCHASE 421 1479 PURCHASE 123 1479 PURCHASE 1187 1478 PURCHASE 2021 1478 SALE 5000 1485 SALE 530 1493 SALE 1115 1493 SALE 2542 1496 SALE 1556 1503 SALE 1556 1503 SALE 1477 1503 PURCHASE 500 1504 PURCHASE 719 1505 SALE 1000 1508 SALE 3459 1508 SALE 827 1508 SALE 2532 1504 SALE 3262 1502 SALE 500 1502 SALE 3724 1502 SALE 1500 1500 SALE 1636 1499 SALE 1118 1499 SALE 827 1499 SALE 52 1499 SALE 4228 1499 PURCHASE 9152 1499 PURCHASE 55 1501 PURCHASE 1596 1501 PURCHASE 154 1501 PURCHASE 1022 1501 PURCHASE 606 1501 PURCHASE 282 1501 SALE 6671 1499 PURCHASE 3822 1496 SALE 952 1499 SALE 52 1499 PURCHASE 74 1492 PURCHASE 93 1487 PURCHASE 74 1483 PURCHASE 1000 1480 PURCHASE 1053 1489 SALE 2000 1493 PURCHASE 593 1484 PURCHASE 6005 1475 PURCHASE 86 1476 PURCHASE 1307 1476 PURCHASE 270 1477 PURCHASE 1947 1477 PURCHASE 2935 1478 PURCHASE 146 1476 PURCHASE 10458 1474 PURCHASE 6991 1470 PURCHASE 113 1470 PURCHASE 10465 1473 PURCHASE 6953 1474 PURCHASE 589 1474 PURCHASE 101 1474 PURCHASE 3429 1470 PURCHASE 96 1465 PURCHASE 38 1463 PURCHASE 864 1459 PURCHASE 48 1459 PURCHASE 864 1460 PURCHASE 144 1459 PURCHASE 992 1459 PURCHASE 1432 1459 PURCHASE 2110 1462 PURCHASE 1207 1460 PURCHASE 126 1460 PURCHASE 58 1458 PURCHASE 97 1458 PURCHASE 97 1453 SALE 1890 1458 PURCHASE 100 1464 PURCHASE 564 1464 PURCHASE 2819 1464 SALE 2875 1468 SALE 545 1470 SALE 52 1470 SALE 564 1470 SALE 570 1470 PURCHASE 2310 1470 PURCHASE 2448 1470 SALE 1758 1469 SALE 748 1473 SALE 2068 1475 SALE 880 1478 SALE 8244 1484 SALE 1417 1486 SALE 4000 1487 SALE 9744 1487 SALE 929 1487 SALE 880 1485 SALE 718 1485 SALE 782 1487 SALE 1211 1487 SALE 782 1487 SALE 483 1487 PURCHASE 864 1490 PURCHASE 852 1490 PURCHASE 512 1489 PURCHASE 200 1489 PURCHASE 1030 1489 PURCHASE 472 1489 PURCHASE 1008 1489 PURCHASE 9080 1487 PURCHASE 2500 1487 PURCHASE 4000 1487 PURCHASE 7651 1487 PURCHASE 130 1480 PURCHASE 2479 1481 PURCHASE 1009 1486 PURCHASE 500 1487 PURCHASE 674 1485 SALE 1936 1489 SALE 52 1489 PURCHASE 281 1488 PURCHASE 491 1491 PURCHASE 1000 1491 PURCHASE 179 1491 PURCHASE 174 1491 PURCHASE 1207 1493 SALE 195 1495 PURCHASE 100 1491 SALE 880 1497 SALE 375 1495 SALE 600 1495 PURCHASE 935 1496 SALE 1600 1497 SALE 509 1499 SALE 469 1499 SALE 4000 1499 SALE 52 1499 PURCHASE 1371 1489 PURCHASE 1351 1493 PURCHASE 19 1493 PURCHASE 873 1493 PURCHASE 172 1493 PURCHASE 2787 1497 PURCHASE 273 1488 PURCHASE 571 1503.5 PURCHASE 56 1503.5 PURCHASE 100 1503.5 SALE 2925 1507 PURCHASE 403 1504 PURCHASE 800 1500 PURCHASE 97 1499.5 PURCHASE 344 1495.5 PURCHASE 2597 1495 PURCHASE 572 1495 PURCHASE 880 1501 PURCHASE 311 1503 SALE 1283 1503 SALE 6666 1500 SALE 6783 1500 PURCHASE 97 1501.5 PURCHASE 28 1508 PURCHASE 464 1508 SALE 4689 1508 SALE 395 1512 SALE 960 1508 SALE 54 1508 PURCHASE 374 1507.5 PURCHASE 84 1506.5 PURCHASE 317 1507 PURCHASE 420 1507 PURCHASE 1379 1507 PURCHASE 500 1507 PURCHASE 1595 1507 PURCHASE 559 1507 PURCHASE 167 1507 SALE 1163 1507 SALE 55 1507 SALE 120 1507 PURCHASE 397 1504.5 PURCHASE 452 1501.5 PURCHASE 644 1503 PURCHASE 81 1501.5 PURCHASE 6013 1503 PURCHASE 14 1501.5 PURCHASE 3099 1503 SALE 6644 1505 SALE 2523 1503 SALE 4130 1503 SALE 1397 1503 PURCHASE 62 1504 PURCHASE 440 1504 PURCHASE 334 1506 SALE 845 1512 PURCHASE 218 1511.5 PURCHASE 9 1511.5 SALE 282 1514 PURCHASE 21 1514.5 PURCHASE 64 1514.5 SALE 4733 1514 PURCHASE 1891 1512 PURCHASE 186 1514 SALE 1296 1519 SALE 51 1522 SALE 332 1522 SALE 809 1521 SALE 2090 1521 SALE 1246 1521 SALE 2347 1521 SALE 1524 1521 SALE 648 1522 SALE 1366 1523 SALE 1393 1524 SALE 1478 1525 PURCHASE 487 1522.5 PURCHASE 56 1522.5 SALE 3608 1523 SALE 981 1523 PURCHASE 301 1521.5 PURCHASE 38 1521.5 PURCHASE 22 1524.5 PURCHASE 135 1522.5 PURCHASE 168 1522.5 PURCHASE 24 1522.5 PURCHASE 11 1523.5 PURCHASE 24 1523.5 PURCHASE 194 1523.5 PURCHASE 13 1523.5 PURCHASE 1 1523.5 PURCHASE 18 1524.5 PURCHASE 169 1524.5 PURCHASE 13 1524.5 PURCHASE 62 1520 PURCHASE 424 1520 SALE 1492 1517 SALE 1082 1517 PURCHASE 159 1514 PURCHASE 19 1513 PURCHASE 1151 1513 PURCHASE 495 1513 PURCHASE 278 1510 PURCHASE 57 1510.5 PURCHASE 415 1510.5 PURCHASE 390 1510 PURCHASE 726 1504 PURCHASE 1719 1504 PURCHASE 387 1500 PURCHASE 5556 1501 PURCHASE 349 1501.5 PURCHASE 88 1507.5 SALE 568 1508 SALE 54 1508 PURCHASE 473 1508 SALE 1 1508 SALE 1253 1508 SALE 1865 1508 SALE 4673 1508 SALE 752 1508 PURCHASE 45 1507.5 PURCHASE 926 1515 PURCHASE 120 1515 SALE 574 1515 SALE 2824 1515 SALE 1497.175 14962 TOTAL PURCHASES 238,846 TOTAL SALES 212,762 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)Product name, e.g Long/short (Note 5) Number of securities Price per unitCFD (Note 6) (Note 4) (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Optionname,e.g. selling, securities price American, date money paid/call purchasing, to which the European received peroption varying etc option etc. unit (Note relates 4) (Note 6) (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call Number of securities Exercise price per unitoption (Note 4) (d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 3) Nature of transaction Details Price per unit (if applicable)(Note 7) 4. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. .............................................................................. .............................................................................. Is a Supplemental Form 38.5(b) attached? (Note 8) NO Date of disclosure 19MARCH 2008Contact name NIMISHA SACHDEVTelephone number 020 7568 9289Name of offeree/offeror with which connected BHP Billiton PLC BHP Billiton LTDNature of connection (Note 9) CONNECTED ADVISER Notes The Notes on Form 38.5(b) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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