Holding(s) in Company
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Limited
TR-1 (i): Notifications of Major Interests in Shares
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii):
GENESIS EMERGING MARKETS FUND LIMITED
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights (YES)
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to
which voting rights are attached (NO)
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights (NO)
Other (please specify):______________
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation (iii):
Lazard Asset Management LLC
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3)(iv):
Bank One
Mellon Trust
Northern trust Co.
State Street Bank - Custody Master Trust
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different)(v):
09/04/2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:
14/04/2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
5%
8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares (If possible use ISIN code): GB0003678025
Situation previous to the triggering transaction (vi)
Number of shares:
Number of voting rights (viii): 515,578
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of shares:
Number of voting rights(ix):
Direct (x) (nil)
Indirect (xi) 795,578
Percentage of voting rights:
Direct (nil)
Indirect 5.856%
B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)
Type of financial instrument
Expiration date (xiii)
Exercise/ conversion period/date (xiv)
No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)
Percentage of voting rights
Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights: 795,578
Percentage of voting rights: 5.856%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively
held, if applicable (xv):
Lazard Asset Management controls all the voting rights for this issuer.
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder: N/A
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:
15. Contact telephone name:
ANNEX NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (xvi)
A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form for legal entities): Lazard Asset Management LLC
Contact address (registered office for legal entities):
30 Rockefeller Plaza
57th Floor
New York
NY, 10112 - 6300
Phone number:0207 448 2119
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons):
Reporting for UK issuers is undertaken on behalf of Lazard Asset Management companies by Lazard Asset Management Limited
in London
B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii)
Full name:Lazard Asset Management Limited
Contact address: 50, Stratton Street,London W1J 8LL
Phone number: 0207 448 2119
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification
obligation):
C: Additional information
Notes
(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 person acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting
rights in the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1
(a), or (d) the direct or indirect 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 DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the following list is provided as indication
of the persons who should be mentioned:
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person 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 DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding the collateral, provided the person or entity
controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateral under these
conditions;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a life interest in shares if that person is entitled
to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rights when the life
interest is created;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and, provided it has a notification duty at an
individual level under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations, the
controlled undertaking;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), 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 DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls the voting rights;
- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), 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 DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should be the full name of the shareholder or
holder of financial instruments who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2.
(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 (see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took
effect.
These dates will usually be the same unless the transaction is subject to a condition beyond the control of the parties.
(vi)Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification, In case the situation previous to the
triggering transaction was below 3%, please state `below 3%'.
(vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold , the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the
extent of the holding, only that the new holding is less than 3%.
For the case provided for in DTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the
agreement unless a party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into,
introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.
(viii) Direct and indirect
(ix ) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached `direct holding' and voting rights `indirect
holdings', please split the voting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if there is no
combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.
(X) Voting rights attached to shares in respect of which the notifying party is a direct shareholder (DTR 5.1)
(xi) Voting rights held by the notifying party as an indirect shareholder (DTR 5.2.1)
(xii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the
extent of the holding, only that the new holding is below 3%.
(xiii) date of maturity / expiration of the finical instrument i.e. the date when the right to acquire shares ends.
(xiv) If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the period- for example once every three months
starting from the [date]
(xv) 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, insofar 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.
(xvi) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.
(xvii) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the shareholder or the natural person/legal entity
referred to in DTR5.2 and DTR5.3.