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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI)

4th Mar 2011 11:23

RNS Number : 3576C
Morgan Stanley Securities Limited
04 March 2011
 



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:

3rd March 2011

(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

7,022,455

8.2400

8.1000

ORD GBP

SALES

6,226,882

8.2400

8.1000

ORD USD

PURCHASES

110,000

13.4048

13.3846

(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

3,201

8.1002

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

30,000

8.1261

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

14,142

8.1525

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

612

8.1525

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

12,000

8.1593

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

60,500

8.1594

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

37,222

8.1640

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

12,373

8.1640

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

1,270

8.1640

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

16,135

8.1640

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

38,000

8.1641

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

40,000

8.1704

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

14,300

8.1790

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

20,000

8.1842

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

9,650

8.1862

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

27

8.2000

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

93

8.2000

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

136,380

8.2029

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

71,111

8.2074

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

235,042

8.2158

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

45,048

8.2158

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

3,217

8.2158

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

16,787

8.2158

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

537

8.2207

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

22,443

8.2291

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

2,773

8.2291

ORD GBP

CFD

LONG

2,180

8.2300

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,879

8.1603

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,322

8.1607

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

60,000

8.1669

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

90,000

8.1669

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

69,000

8.1739

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

150,000

8.1808

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

53,000

8.1809

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

60,000

8.1848

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

40,000

8.1848

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

13,365

8.1874

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,651

8.1874

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

1,336

8.1949

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

347

8.2072

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

340,324

8.2111

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

632,030

8.2111

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

56,318

8.2265

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

74,650

8.2266

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

60,000

8.2277

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

4,878

8.2300

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

27

8.2300

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

640

8.2310

ORD GBP

CFD

SHORT

55,000

8.2339

ORD USD

CFD

SHORT

32,000

13.4039

ORD USD

CFD

SHORT

32,000

13.4075

ORD USD

CFD

SHORT

46,000

13.4120

 

 (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

PUT OPTION

PURCHASE

500,000

800.0000

A

20/05/2011

0.165

 

(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:

4th March 2011

Contact name:

Natalie Smithyes

Telephone number:

0207 677 5977

 

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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