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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) BSKYB Plc

16th Aug 2010 11:07

RNS Number : 1232R
Deutsche Bank AG
16 August 2010
 



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:

Deutsche Bank AG London

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities the disclosure 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:

News Corporation Limited

(d) Date of dealing:

13/08/2010

(e) Have you previously disclosed, or are you today disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other relevant security of any other party to this offer?

NO

 

 

 

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

£

50p Ordinary

Purchases

67206

7.105

7.055

50p Ordinary

Sales

456048

7.11

7.055

 

(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

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

29857

7.09406

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

22313

7.092306

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

7166

7.091891

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

24436

7.078704

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

1282

7.07798

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

30887

7.077469

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

493

7.0772

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

2001

7.07388

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

11672

7.07095

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

290000

7.070693

50p Ordinary

CFD

Long

15460

7.067445666

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

18625

7.09

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

9021

7.087565

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

13959

7.085898

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

4720

7.076206

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

6686

7.073226

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

7093

7.071061

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

614

7.07

50p Ordinary

CFD

Short

5374

7.067629

(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

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit

 

(ii) Exercising

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Number of securities

Exercise date

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:

16/08/2010

Contact name:

Kelly-Jade Ledwich

Telephone number:

020 7545 8515

 

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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