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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - AMENDMENT

22nd Jun 2010 17:40

RNS Number : 0721O
Morgan Stanley Securities Limited
22 June 2010
 



AMENDMENT

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:

Morgan Stanley Securities Limited

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:

British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc

(d) Date dealing undertaken:

16th June 2010

(e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other party to this offer?

YES

 

 

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

ORD GBP

PURCHASES

2,296,481

7.0656

6.9800

ORD GBP

SALES

2,720,764

7.0600

6.9800

 

(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

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

1,167

6.9879

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

7,786

6.9954

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

10,840

6.9954

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

28,462

6.9954

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

2,912

6.9954

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

24,148

6.9974

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

1,552

6.9989

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

21,362

7.0045

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

16,980

7.0067

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

67,920

7.0067

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

54

7.0079

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

48,073

7.0092

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

49,145

7.0092

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

206

7.0094

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

176

7.0094

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

14,090

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

13,368

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

817

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

5,410

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

53,470

7.0113

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

5,808

7.0177

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

206

7.0185

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

42,794

7.0185

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

25,800

7.0187

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

3,054

7.0194

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

23,252

7.0203

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

2,500

7.0228

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

1,938

7.0242

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

1,667

7.0254

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

72,229

7.0279

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

75,476

7.0402

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

5,689

7.0402

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

38,600

7.0452

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

11,525

7.0452

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,982

7.0028

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,276

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

25,721

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

5,249

7.0100

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

244

7.0253

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

670

7.0256

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

25,800

7.0263

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

37,651

7.0263

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

8,075

7.0293

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,237

7.0321

 

 

(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

 

ORD GBP

CALL

SALE

526,848

620.87

E

16/06/2010

0.8102

 

ORD GBP

 

CALL

PURCHASE

583,713

736.05

E

15/09/2010

0.089

 

(ii) Exercising

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

 

(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)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

 

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"

 

 

 

 

(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"

 

 

 

 

Date of disclosure:

22nd June 2010

Contact name:

Natalie Smithyes

Telephone number:

0207 6775977

 

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 [email protected]. 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.

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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