14th Oct 2011 07:30
Financial Services Authority
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES i | ||||
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:
| Lonrho Plc GB0002568813 | |||
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): | ||||
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | Yes | |||
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached.
| n/a | |||
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
| Yes | |||
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | n/a | |||
Other (please specify):
| n/a | |||
3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: | UBS Investment Bank | |||
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): | UBS AG London Branch | |||
5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: | 10 October 2011 | |||
6. Date on which issuer notified: | 12 October 2011 | |||
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:
| 4%, 5% |
8. Notified details:
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A: Voting rights attached to shares | ||||||||||||||
Class/type ofshares if possible usingthe ISIN CODE | Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||
NumberofShares | NumberofVotingRights |
Numberof shares | Number of votingrights | % of voting rights | ||||||||||
Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect | |||||||||||
GB0002568813 | 67,913,292(see note 13) | 67,913,292 | 39,788,194 | 39,788,194 | - | 3.06% | - | |||||||
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||||
Type of financialinstrument |
Expirationdate |
Exercise/Conversion Period | Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted. |
% of votingrights | ||||||||||
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||||
Type of financialinstrument
|
Exercise price |
Expiration date |
Exercise/Conversion period |
Number of voting rights instrument refers to
|
% of voting rights
| |||||||||
- | - | - | - | -
| Nominal | Delta | ||||||||
- | - | |||||||||||||
Total (A+B+C) | ||||||||||||||
Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights | |||||||||||||
39,788,194
| 3.06% |
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: | ||
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Proxy Voting: | ||
10. Name of the proxy holder: | N/A | |
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold: | N/A | |
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights: | N/A | |
13. Additional information: | Note from Lonrho Plc: UBS AG notified Lonrho Plc on 8 August 2011 that, as at 4 August 2011, UBS AG held 38,643,130 ordinary shares in the Company and held an additional 29,270,162 voting rights which attached to Guaranteed Convertible Bonds, therefore the total voting rights were 67,913,292. UBS AG notified Lonrho Plc on 12 October 2011 that, as at 10 October 2011, UBS AG held 39,788,194 ordinary shares in the Company and did not have any additional voting rights as a result of holding Guaranteed Convertible Bonds. | |
14. Contact name: | Jim Hughes | |
15. Contact telephone number: | +44 (0) 20 7016 5105 |
Related Shares:
Lonrho