Holding(s) in Company

UBM PLC - Holding(s) in Company

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London, March 13

TR-1 (i) NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to whichvoting rights are attached (ii):

An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result inthe

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to Yesqualifying financial instruments

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification BlackRock, Incobligation (iii):

A: Voting rights attached to shares

JE00B2R84W06 44,003,352 44,003,352 N/A N/A 45,999,844 N/A 18.74%

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to QualifyingFinancial Instruments xv, xvi

Number of voting rights % of voting rights

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments areeffectively held, if applicable (xv):

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited - 51,855,908 (21.13%)

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

Annex: Notification of major interests in shares (xvi)

i. This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and tobe filed with the competent authority.

ii. Either the full name of the legal entity or another method foridentifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable andaccurate.

iii. This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) theperson acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the casesprovided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreementreferred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financialinstruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rightsare attached, as appropriate.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), thefollowing list is provided as indication of the persons who should bementioned:

acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreementand the natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily forconsideration the voting rights;

the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights anddeclares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateralunder these conditions;

life interest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the votingrights attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the votingrights when the life interest is created;

undertaking and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual levelunder DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of thosesituations, the controlled undertaking;

the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the sharesdeposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowingthe deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

controls the voting rights;

he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder whohas given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise thevoting rights at his discretion.

iv. Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). Thisshould be the full name of the shareholder or holder of financial instrumentswho is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to inDTR5.2.

v. The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an onexchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in thecase of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement.

The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which theacquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect(see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate eventtook effect. [DEL::DEL]

These dates will usually be the same unless the transaction is subject to acondition beyond the control of the parties.

vi. Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previousnotification, In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction wasbelow 3%, please state 'below 3%'.

vii. If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold , thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is less than 3%.

For the case provided for in DTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure ofindividual holdings per party to the agreement unless a party individuallycrosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into,introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.

'direct holding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split the votingrights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if there isno combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.

party is a direct shareholder (DTR 5.1)

shareholder (DTR 5.2.1)

xii If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is below 3%.

xiii date of maturity / expiration of the finical instrument i.e. thedate when the right to acquire shares ends.

specify the period- for example once every three months starting from the[date]

xv. The notification should include the name(s) of the controlledundertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification shouldalso include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by eachcontrolled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertakingholds 3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking isintended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking.

xvi. This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.

xvii. Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of theshareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 andDTR5.3.