Form 8.3 - ARRIS GROUP INC NEW
BARCLAYS PLC
FORM 8.3
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY
A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE
Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the “Codeâ€)
1. KEY INFORMATION
(a) | Â | Full name of discloser: | Â | Barclays PLC. | |
 |  |  | |||
(b) | Owner or controller of interest and short | ||||
 | positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): |  | |||
(c) | Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose | ARRIS GROUP INC NEW | |||
 | relevant securities this form relates: |  | |||
(d) | If an exempt fund manager connected with an | ||||
offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of | |||||
 | offeror/offeree: |  | |||
(e) | Date position held/dealing undertaken: | 12 May 2015 | |||
(f) | In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making | YES: | |||
 | disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer? | PACE PLC |
2. POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security.
(a) Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security: | Â | Â | Â | ORD | |||||||
Interests | Â | Short Positions | |||||||||
 |  | Number |  | (%) | Number |  | (%) | ||||
(1) | Relevant securities owned | ||||||||||
and/or controlled: | 4,665 | 0.00% | 893,624 | 0.61% | |||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
(2) | Cash-settled derivatives: | ||||||||||
1,497,183 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | ||||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
(3) | Stock-settled derivatives (including options) | ||||||||||
and agreements to purchase/sell: | 47,200 | 0.03% | 44,300 | 0.03% | |||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
(4) | |||||||||||
TOTAL: | 1,549,048 | 1.06% | 937,924 | 0.64% |
All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.
Details of any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions).
(b) Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors’ and other employee options)
Class of relevant security in relation to which subscription right exists: | Â |
Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages: | Â |
3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.
The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.
(a) Purchases and sales
Class of relevant | Â | Purchase/sale | Â | Number of | Â | Price per unit | |
security | Â | securities | Â | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1 | 33.8900 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2 | 33.8950 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2 | 33.9050 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 57 | 33.7900 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 33.8290 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 33.9200 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 168 | 33.7337 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 33.7600 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 33.9650 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 452 | 33.7163 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 465 | 33.8608 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 788 | 33.7336 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,175 | 33.8480 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,500 | 33.8845 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 3,500 | 33.8010 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,480 | 33.6070 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,625 | 33.6818 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 5,300 | 33.4767 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 7,080 | 33.6186 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 8,825 | 33.8944 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 14,200 | 33.8986 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 18,802 | 33.5006 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 21,200 | 33.8820 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 23,235 | 33.7061 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 46,331 | 33.8874 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 59,575 | 33.9150 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1 | 33.9100 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 38 | 33.8600 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 33.3800 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 33.4460 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 33.7000 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 33.8290 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 150 | 33.6206 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 33.2650 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 33.5900 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 33.8950 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 33.4366 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 33.9133 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 350 | 33.7006 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 570 | 33.6331 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 600 | 33.9183 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 615 | 33.7337 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 630 | 33.6022 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 640 | 33.6528 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 700 | 33.7357 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 761 | 33.7806 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 793 | 33.7336 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 800 | 33.5762 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 900 | 33.5177 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,100 | 33.9327 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,500 | 33.7586 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,602 | 33.9081 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,856 | 33.9223 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 2,556 | 33.7115 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,540 | 33.6186 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,717 | 33.9140 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 4,500 | 33.8615 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 5,785 | 33.5493 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 8,297 | 33.9243 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 8,700 | 33.3696 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 9,100 | 33.8773 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 12,100 | 33.8856 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 14,805 | 33.9211 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 28,700 | 33.9082 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 36,540 | 33.6651 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 71,358 | 33.8896 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 632,000 | 33.8000 USD |
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of | Â | Product | Â | Nature of dealing | Â | Number of | Â | Price per | |
relevant | description | reference | unit | ||||||
security | Â | Â | securities | Â | |||||
ORD | SWAP Expires 17/08/2015 | Long | 632,000 | 33.8000 USD |
(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class of relevant security | Â | Product description e.g. call option | Â | Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc. | Â | Number of securities to which option relates | Â | Exercise price per unit | Â |
Type
e.g. American, European etc. |
 | Expiry date |  | Option money paid/ received per unit |
(ii) Exercise
Class of relevant security | Â |
Product description
e.g. call option |
 | Exercising/ exercised against |  | Number of securities |  | Exercise price per unit |
(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant security | Â |
Nature of dealing
e.g. subscription, conversion |
 | Details |  | Price per unit (if applicable) |
4. 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 person making the disclosure and any party to the offer
or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. 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 person 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†|
(c) Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached? | Â | YES | |
Date of disclosure: | 13 May 2015 | ||
Contact name: | Jay Supaya | ||
Telephone number: | 020 7773 0635 |
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 monitoring@disclosure.org.uk. The Panel’s Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code’s disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.
The Code can be viewed on the Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.
143221.01
SUPPLEMENTAL FORM 8 (OPEN POSITIONS)
DETAILS OF OPEN STOCK-SETTLED DERIVATIVE (INCLUDING OPTION) POSITIONS, AGREEMENTS TO PURCHASE OR SELL ETC.
Note 5(i) on Rule 8 of the Takeover Code (the “Codeâ€)
1. KEY INFORMATION
Identity of the person whose positions/dealings | Â | Barclays PLC. | |
are being disclosed: | Â | ||
Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose | ARRIS GROUP INC NEW | ||
relevant securities this from relates: | Â |
2. STOCK-SETTLED DERIVATIVES (INCLUDING OPTIONS)
Class | Â | Product | Â | Writing, | Â | Number | Â | Exercise | Â | Type | Â | Expiry | |
of | description | purchasing, | of | price | date | ||||||||
relevant | selling, | securities | per unit | ||||||||||
security | varying etc | to which | |||||||||||
option | |||||||||||||
 |  |  | relates |  |  |  | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Purchased | -2,100 | 27.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Purchased | -2,100 | 27.5000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Purchased | -900 | 30.0000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 2,100 | 25.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 1,800 | 25.0000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 400 | 30.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 400 | 32.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 400 | 35.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 1,900 | 37.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 600 | 40.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 700 | 25.0000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 13,500 | 30.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 100 | 30.0000 | American | 20 Nov 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 1,500 | 32.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 300 | 32.5000 | American | 19 Jun 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 1,800 | 35.0000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 100 | 35.0000 | American | 20 Nov 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 21,300 | 37.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 300 | 37.5000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -500 | 22.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -100 | 25.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -600 | 27.5000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -900 | 32.5000 | American | 21 Aug 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -26,400 | 35.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -200 | 35.0000 | American | 19 Jun 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -1,400 | 37.5000 | American | 19 Jun 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -5,300 | 40.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Written | -3,800 | 40.0000 | American | 19 Jun 2015 |
3. AGREEMENTS TO PURCHASE OR SELL ETC.
Full details should be given so that the nature of the interest or position can be fully understood: |
It is not necessary to provide details on a Supplemental Form (Open Positions) with regard to cash-settled derivatives.
The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.
The Panel’s Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code’s disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.
The Code can be viewed on the Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.