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Notification of Major Interest in Shares

10th Nov 2014 08:45

RNS Number : 5696W
Smart Metering Systems PLC
10 November 2014
 



10 November 2014

Smart Metering Systems plc

("SMS" or "the Company")

 

 Notification of Major Interest in Shares

 

Smart Metering Systems plc (AIM: SMS.L), the integrated metering services company that connects, owns, operates and maintains current generation and new advanced metering assets and databases, announces as follows:

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached: ii

SMART METERING SYSTEMS PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

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

Yes

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: iii

SFM UK Management LLP

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv

Quantum Partners LP

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: v

6th November 2014

6. Date on which issuer notified:

7th November 2014

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii

Below 3%

 

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

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 x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

 

 

GB00B4X1RC86

2,500,000

2,500,000

N/A

N/A

N/A

Below 3%

N/A

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

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

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

 

% of voting rights xix, xx

 

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Nominal

Delta

N/A

N/A

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

N/A

Below 3%

 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

 

This statement relates to common shares held for the account of Quantum Partners LP, a Cayman Islands

exempted limited partnership ("Quantum Partners"). SFM UK Management LLP, a sub-advisor to Soros

Fund Management LLC, serves as investment manager to Quantum Partners and has been granted

investment discretion over portfolio investments, including the common shares, held for the account of

Quantum Partners.

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:

N/A

14. Contact name:

Jade Cornell

Compliance Officer

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7758 4826

 

About Smart Metering Systems

 

Established in 1995, Smart Metering Systems plc, based in Glasgow, connects, owns, operates and maintains metering systems and databases on behalf of major energy companies.

 

Currently the Company is concentrating its efforts on offering its unique integrated services to the UK industrial and commercial gas market in which its customers have an 80% market share.

 

The Company has further applications for gas with its ADM™ device which allows "smart" functions such as remote reading and half-hourly consumption data to be offered to customers in addition to the normal metering services.

 

SMS expanded its services into the electricity market through the acquisition of Utility Partnership Limited in April 2014. The Company can now provide a fully integrated service from beginning to end to cover the installation of a gas/electricity supply/connection to the procurement, installation and management of a gas or electricity meter asset to the collection and management of customer data and ongoing energy management services. Longer term the Company also has additional applications for water and LPG.

 

The Company was admitted to the AIM market in July 2011 and is now part of the FTSE AIM 50 index. For more information on SMS please visit the Company's website: www.sms-plc.com.

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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