Form 8.3 - ARRIS GROUP INC
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 | |||
 | 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: | 27 April 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: | 4,292 | 0.00% | 190,358 | 0.13% | |||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
(2) | Cash-settled derivatives: | ||||||||||
241,065 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | ||||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
(3) | Stock-settled derivatives (including options) | ||||||||||
and agreements to purchase/sell: | 46,800 | 0.03% | 44,300 | 0.03% | |||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | ||||||
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TOTAL: | 292,157 | 0.20% | 234,658 | 0.16% |
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 | 97 | 34.9900 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 34.9750 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 34.9950 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 35.3050 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 35.4000 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 601 | 34.9850 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 724 | 34.9911 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 800 | 34.9740 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,179 | 35.3974 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,500 | 35.2866 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,760 | 35.0980 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,015 | 35.3614 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,143 | 35.3332 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,236 | 35.3786 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,675 | 35.1068 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,901 | 35.3855 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 3,000 | 35.2417 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,035 | 35.3762 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,054 | 35.0315 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,144 | 35.2164 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,493 | 35.0829 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 4,800 | 35.0585 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 6,011 | 35.1479 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 6,309 | 34.8941 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 8,877 | 35.2391 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 10,482 | 34.9072 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 10,600 | 35.1616 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 11,118 | 34.9800 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 11,800 | 35.7600 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 14,832 | 35.1361 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 26,600 | 35.0742 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 27,773 | 35.3543 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 29,500 | 35.0906 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 40,416 | 35.1030 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 45,764 | 35.2882 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 102,673 | 35.0821 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 7 | 34.9500 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 34.9250 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 35.2800 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 174 | 35.0558 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 196 | 34.9926 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.7403 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.8950 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.9100 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.9125 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.9750 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 34.9950 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 35.0100 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 201 | 34.9601 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 201 | 34.9849 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 34.8900 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 34.9700 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 400 | 34.9000 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 500 | 34.9140 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 500 | 34.9180 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 541 | 34.9163 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 599 | 34.9775 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 600 | 34.9850 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 600 | 35.0583 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 600 | 35.1500 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 691 | 34.9390 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 724 | 34.9911 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 800 | 34.9740 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 801 | 34.9637 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,300 | 34.9707 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,900 | 35.1873 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 2,800 | 34.9021 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,100 | 35.0387 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,369 | 34.9859 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 4,101 | 35.2071 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 4,444 | 34.8741 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 4,700 | 35.0524 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 5,241 | 34.9072 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 6,300 | 35.1130 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 6,600 | 35.0386 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 7,866 | 34.9890 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 10,017 | 34.9800 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 11,800 | 35.7600 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 12,100 | 35.1142 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 12,211 | 35.0819 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 16,325 | 35.1452 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 20,208 | 35.0788 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 20,208 | 35.1030 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 20,300 | 35.0622 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 20,400 | 35.0989 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 20,646 | 35.1124 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 58,864 | 35.0783 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 126,746 | 35.2783 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 31/10/2016 | Long | 11,800 | 35.0872 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: | 28 Apr 2015 | ||
Contact name: | James Gibson | ||
Telephone number: | 020 3555 4619 |
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.
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: | |||
Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose | ARRIS GROUP INC | ||
relevant securities this from relates: |
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 | 300 | 30.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 100 | 35.0000 | American | 15 May 2015 | |||||||
ORD | Put Options | Written | 4,200 | 37.5000 | 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 | 20,300 | 37.5000 | American | 15 May 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.