21st Apr 2017 11:00
The following notification was received today by William Hill PLC, relating to a major interest in shares of William Hill PLC.
Tom Fuller
Deputy Company Secretary
21 April 2017
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES  | |||
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:  | William Hill Plc  | ||
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):  | |||
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights  | x  | ||
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached  | |||
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments  | |||
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights  | |||
3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation:  | Citigroup Global Markets Limited  | ||
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):  | N/A  | ||
5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:  | 19-April-2017  | ||
6. Date on which issuer notified:  | 21-Apr-2017  | ||
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:  | 6%  | ||
8. Notified details:  | ||||||||||||||||
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  | Direct  | Indirect  | Direct  | Indirect  | ||||||||||||
 
 GB0031698896  | 43,996,618  | 43,996,618  | 37,222,166  | 37,222,166  | 0  | 4.3393%  | ||||||||||
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  | ||||||||||||
Right to recall lent securities  | 6,883,933  | 0.8025%  | ||||||||||||||
 
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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 
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Nominal  | Delta  | |||||||||||||||
Equity Swap  | -  | 02/13/2018 09/04/2017 09/06/2017 11/02/2017 11/02/2017 01/18/2018 11/17/2017 11/17/2017  | 8,185,185  | 0.9542%  | ||||||||||||
Total (A+B+C)  | ||||||||||||||||
Number of voting rights  | Percentage of voting rights  | |||||||||||||||
52,291,284  | 6.096%  | |||||||||||||||
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:  | ||||||||||||||||
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:  | ||||||||||||||||
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:  | ||||||||||||||||
13. Additional information:  | ||||||||||||||||
14. Contact name:  | Connor McLaughlin  | |||||||||||||||
15. Contact telephone number:  | +44 2895 955328  | |||||||||||||||
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