Form 8.3 - Platform Specialty Products Corporation

Form 8.3 - Platform Specialty Products 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 “Code”)

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a)   Full name of discloser:   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 Platform Specialty Products 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: 13 August 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? ALENT 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:   ORD
  Interests   Short Positions
    Number   (%) Number   (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 594,986 0.29% 869,570 0.42%
           
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
928,240 0.45% 592,878 0.28%
           
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
           
 
TOTAL: 1,523,226 0.73% 1,462,448 0.70%

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:  
Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages:  

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   Purchase/sale   Number of   Price per unit
security   securities  
ORD Purchase 100 20.9540 USD
ORD Purchase 200 20.8890 USD
ORD Purchase 200 20.9550 USD
ORD Purchase 300 20.7166 USD
ORD Purchase 300 21.3700 USD
ORD Purchase 1,008 21.0964 USD
ORD Purchase 1,100 21.0850 USD
ORD Purchase 1,400 21.1000 USD
ORD Purchase 1,633 22.0741 USD
ORD Purchase 2,300 21.3497 USD
ORD Purchase 2,748 21.5150 USD
ORD Purchase 3,165 21.0887 USD
ORD Purchase 3,600 21.7144 USD
ORD Purchase 4,052 21.5569 USD
ORD Purchase 5,500 22.0000 USD
ORD Purchase 6,077 21.0904 USD
ORD Purchase 9,886 21.5464 USD
ORD Purchase 12,936 21.1404 USD
ORD Purchase 13,025 21.2793 USD
ORD Purchase 15,686 21.4005 USD
ORD Purchase 16,426 21.3929 USD
ORD Purchase 19,000 21.8701 USD
ORD Purchase 21,185 21.6238 USD
ORD Purchase 35,828 21.9690 USD
ORD Purchase 40,749 21.8419 USD
ORD Purchase 64,080 21.3474 USD
ORD Purchase 67,694 21.6670 USD
ORD Purchase 75,300 21.6345 USD
ORD Purchase 79,490 21.7379 USD
ORD Purchase 98,400 21.6172 USD
ORD Purchase 104,900 21.4941 USD
ORD Purchase 157,300 21.4350 USD
ORD Purchase 450,000 23.4400 USD
ORD Purchase 787,093 21.0000 USD
ORD Sale 100 20.9540 USD
ORD Sale 100 21.0100 USD
ORD Sale 100 21.0200 USD
ORD Sale 100 21.8800 USD
ORD Sale 100 21.9300 USD
ORD Sale 200 20.8890 USD
ORD Sale 200 20.9550 USD
ORD Sale 200 21.0600 USD
ORD Sale 300 21.0336 USD
ORD Sale 700 21.6807 USD
ORD Sale 800 21.7837 USD
ORD Sale 1,100 20.9968 USD
ORD Sale 1,200 21.6608 USD
ORD Sale 1,200 21.8583 USD
ORD Sale 1,400 21.4557 USD
ORD Sale 1,400 22.0971 USD
ORD Sale 1,500 21.0406 USD
ORD Sale 1,500 21.7893 USD
ORD Sale 1,700 21.0300 USD
ORD Sale 2,434 22.0721 USD
ORD Sale 2,600 21.3884 USD
ORD Sale 3,000 21.2395 USD
ORD Sale 3,300 21.6574 USD
ORD Sale 4,373 21.6311 USD
ORD Sale 5,500 22.0000 USD
ORD Sale 5,500 22.1463 USD
ORD Sale 6,200 21.0788 USD
ORD Sale 6,563 21.4449 USD
ORD Sale 7,796 21.5850 USD
ORD Sale 7,900 21.9037 USD
ORD Sale 8,830 21.3262 USD
ORD Sale 9,082 21.3436 USD
ORD Sale 9,789 22.0064 USD
ORD Sale 10,123 21.9056 USD
ORD Sale 10,246 21.8591 USD
ORD Sale 13,100 22.0044 USD
ORD Sale 14,008 21.9245 USD
ORD Sale 14,135 21.2702 USD
ORD Sale 14,853 21.8010 USD
ORD Sale 15,036 22.0170 USD
ORD Sale 16,300 21.7986 USD
ORD Sale 22,878 20.9328 USD
ORD Sale 28,700 21.7914 USD
ORD Sale 31,958 21.8352 USD
ORD Sale 33,322 21.4051 USD
ORD Sale 44,200 21.7661 USD
ORD Sale 50,000 22.3473 USD
ORD Sale 58,494 21.3559 USD
ORD Sale 73,800 21.8446 USD
ORD Sale 74,600 21.5320 USD
ORD Sale 95,200 21.4795 USD
ORD Sale 98,328 21.2946 USD
ORD Sale 136,829 21.8656 USD
ORD Sale 252,691 21.4173 USD
ORD Sale 450,000 23.4400 USD
ORD Sale 787,093 21.0000 USD

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security   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) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security   Product description e.g. call option   Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.   Number of securities to which option relates   Exercise price per unit   Type

e.g. American, European etc.

  Expiry date   Option money paid/ received per unit

(ii) Exercise

Class of relevant security   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   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?   NO
Date of disclosure: 14 Aug 2015
Contact name: Rajesh Muthanna
Telephone number: 020 3555 4634

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.

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