Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7762N

British Assets Trust PLC

24 February 2009

 



TR-1:  notification of major interests in shares 

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	British Assets Trust plc
2. Reason for the notification     (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify): Change in issued share capital
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	AXA S.A. 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	17/02/09
6. Date on which issuer notified:	18/02/09
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	17%
8. Notified details:	-

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares   if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the Triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights viii	Number of shares	Number of voting rights ix		% of voting rights
			Direct	Direct  x	Indirect xi	Direct	Indirect
GB0001297562	50,153,500	50,153,500	49,118,994	49,118,994	443,052	16.79	0.15

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction xii
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period/ Date xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
-

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
49,562,046	16.94%

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

Client No. of Shares % of issued share capital AXA (Direct) 639,545 0.21856 AXA Framlington (Indirect) 51,000 0.01743 AXA IM UK (Direct) 48,390,996 16.53758 AXA IM UK (Indirect) 392,052 0.13398 AXA Winterthur (Direct) 77,706 0.02656 Sun Life (IOM) Ltd (Direct) 10,747 0.00367

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:	-
14. Contact name:	Steven Ross
15. Contact telephone number:	0207 628 8000

 

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