Voting Rights attached to Shs

FRM Credit Alpha Limited 29 November 2007 Standard Form TR-1 Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/EC Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC(i) 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii): 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): (x) an acquisition or disposal of voting rights ( ) 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 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation(iii): Newton Investment Management Ltd. 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)(iv): 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached (v): 27/11/07 6. Date on which issuer notified; 29/11/07 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: An increase from 5.88% to 13.22% 8. Notified details: A) Voting rights attached to shares ----------------------------------------------- Class/type Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering of shares to the Triggering transaction(1) (if possible transaction (1) using the ISIN CODE) ----------- Number of Number Number Number of voting % of voting rights Shares(1) of of rights(1) Voting shares rights (1) (1) Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect (1) (1) ----------- ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- GG00B1QH6J27 2,703,500 5.88% 9,946,590 13.22% ----------- ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- ------- SUBTOTAL A (based on aggregate voting rights) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B) Financial Instruments ----------------------------------------------- Resulting situation after the triggering transaction(1) ----------------------------------------------- Type of Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting rights % of voting financial Date(1) Conversion that may be acquired if rights instrument Period/ Date(1) the instrument is exercised/converted ----------- ---------- ------------ ----------------------- ------------- SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates) ------------------------------------------------------- Total (A+B) number of voting rights % of voting rights 9,946,590 13.22 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable(vi): Newton Investment Management Ltd hold these shares as a discretionary Investment Manager. 10. In case of proxy voting: (name of the proxy holder) will cease to hold (number) voting rights as of (date). N/A 11. Additional information: Done at (place) on (date). Annex to the standard form TR-1 (vii) a) Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation: Full name (including legal form for legal Newton Investment Management Ltd. entities) Contact address (registered office for legal 160 Queen Victoria Street, London entities) England, EC4V 4LA Phone number 44 (0)207 163 9000 Other useful information (at least legal Rachel Wheeler representative for legal persons) b) Identity of the notifier, if applicable(viii): Full name Asif S Lalani Contact address 160 Queen Victoria Street London, England, EC4V 4LA Phone number 44 (0)207 7163 5115 Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation) c) Additional information Notes to Form TR-1 -------------------------- (i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed with the competent authority. (ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate. (iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the natural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC; (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in Article 10 (a) of that Directive, or (d) the holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are attached, as appropriate. In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Article 10 of that Directive, the following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 of that Directive, the natural person or legal entity that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 of that Directive, the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 of that Directive, the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest in shares if that person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 of that Directive, the controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under Article 9, under letters (a) to (d) of Article 10 of that Directive or under a combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 of that Directive, the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 of that Directive, the natural person or legal entity that controls the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 of that Directive, the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion. (iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC. This should be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Article 10 of that Directive unless the holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5% of the total number of voting rights. (v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement. The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.(DEL: :DEL) (vi) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each controlled undertaking, (DEL:i:DEL)nsofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds 3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking. (vii) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority. (viii) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the shareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in Articles 10 and 13 of Directive 2004/109/EC This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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