Form 8.3 - Colfax Corporation
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) | Identity of the person whose positions/dealings | Â | Barclays PLC. |
 | are being disclosed: |  | |
(b) | Owner or controller of interest and short | ||
 | positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): |  | |
(c) | Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose | COLFAX CORPORATION | |
 | 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: | 3 November 2011 | |
(f) | Has the discloser previously disclosed, or are | YES: | |
they today disclosing, under the Code in respect | CHARTER INTERNATIONAL PLC | ||
 | of any other party to this offer? |  |
2. POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
(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 | ORD | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
Interests | Â | Short Positions | Â | |||||||
 |  | Number | (%) | Number | (%) | |||||
(1) | Relevant securities owned | |||||||||
and/or controlled: | 47,879 | 0.11% | 455,332 | 1.04% | ||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | |||||
(2) | Derivatives (other than | |||||||||
options): | 301,447 | 0.69% | 0 | 0.00% | ||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | |||||
(3) | Options and agreements to | |||||||||
purchase/sell: | 133,333 | 0.31% | 133,333 | 0.31% | ||||||
 |  |  |  |  |  | |||||
(4) | TOTAL: | |||||||||
482,659 | 1.11% | 588,665 | 1.35% |
All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.
Details of any open derivative or option positions, 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 executive options)
Class of relevant security in relation to which subscription right exists: | Â |
Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages: | Â |
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.
3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
(a) Purchases and sales
Class of relevant | Â | Purchase/sale | Â | Number of | Â | Price per unit | |
security | Â | securities | Â | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 26.5600 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 26.6400 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 27.0900 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 27.0920 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 27.1000 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 27.3400 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 100 | 27.3900 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 26.6750 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 26.7450 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 200 | 27.2150 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 295 | 27.1206 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 300 | 25.9300 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 300 | 27.2500 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 300 | 27.2940 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 400 | 26.8200 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 400 | 27.2825 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 400 | 27.3600 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 400 | 27.6000 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 483 | 26.5330 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 500 | 26.9300 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 500 | 27.5800 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 600 | 26.7550 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 600 | 27.4533 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 955 | 26.9301 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,000 | 26.9005 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,200 | 26.5462 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,200 | 26.7357 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,200 | 27.0683 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,300 | 26.9143 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,400 | 27.6035 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,500 | 26.7100 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,500 | 27.0822 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,552 | 26.6291 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 1,619 | 26.6426 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,056 | 26.1658 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,100 | 26.8624 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,200 | 26.8518 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,500 | 27.1121 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,564 | 26.4442 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,653 | 26.6326 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 2,700 | 27.2925 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 3,600 | 27.1969 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 3,800 | 26.5374 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 5,200 | 26.6189 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 6,747 | 26.6930 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 7,011 | 27.1989 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 7,600 | 27.4620 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 8,300 | 26.8031 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 8,835 | 26.6034 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 12,337 | 26.4312 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 15,168 | 26.9296 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 15,657 | 26.7417 USD | ||||
ORD | Purchase | 49,342 | 26.2464 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 29 | 26.2706 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 72 | 25.4500 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 95 | 25.7535 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 26.6400 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 27.0920 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 100 | 27.1000 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 27.3600 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 200 | 27.7700 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 25.9300 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 300 | 27.2940 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 321 | 26.5092 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 500 | 26.5400 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 500 | 27.5800 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 600 | 27.4533 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 700 | 26.9900 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 700 | 27.3535 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 823 | 25.9890 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,000 | 26.9110 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,000 | 27.4565 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,000 | 27.6620 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,200 | 27.0683 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,300 | 26.7100 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,485 | 25.7587 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,739 | 25.8300 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 1,800 | 27.5138 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 2,100 | 26.8624 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 2,111 | 25.6467 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,100 | 27.3935 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,387 | 25.6726 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,437 | 25.7812 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 3,900 | 27.0955 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 6,911 | 27.2030 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 7,100 | 26.6212 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 7,334 | 26.9321 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 7,876 | 26.9265 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 8,100 | 27.3190 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 9,700 | 26.8191 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 13,255 | 26.7707 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 28,838 | 26.3774 USD | ||||
ORD | Sale | 40,863 | 26.6689 USD |
(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)
Class of relevant security | Â |
Product description
e.g. CFD |
 |
Nature of dealing
e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position |
 | Number of reference securities |  | Price per unit |
(c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities
(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) Exercising
Class of relevant security | Â |
Product description
e.g. call option |
 | 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) |
The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.
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.
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:
If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state “none†|
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†|
NONE |
(c) Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached? | Â |
YES |
Date of disclosure: | Â |
4 Nov 2011 |
Contact name: | Â | Geoff Smith |
Telephone number: | Â | 020 7116 2913 |
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 dealing 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 OPTION AND DERIVATIVE 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 | COLFAX CORPORATION | |
relevant securities this from relates: | Â |
2. OPTIONS AND DERIVATIVES
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 | Written | -133,333 | 12.6300 | European | 6 Jan 2012 | |||||||
ORD | Call Options | Purchased | 133,333 | 15.7900 | European | 6 Jan 2012 |
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 contracts for differences (“CFDsâ€) or spread bets.
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 dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.
The Code can be viewed on the Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.