Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 2943X

Paddy Power plc

09 January 2014

 



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

This notification is for filing purposes in accordance with Regulation 22 of the Transparency (Directive 2004/109/EC) Regulations 2007

1.         Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:   Paddy Power PLC

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:  

            Massachusetts Financial Services Company ("MFS")*

4.         Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): Refer to Schedule A

5.         Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

            7 January 2014          

6.         Date on which issuer notified;

            8 January 2014

7.         Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

            +6%

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	Number of shares	Number of voting rights			% of voting rights
			Indirect	Direct		Indirect	Direct		Indirect
IE0002588105	2,537,955	2,537,955	3,196,693		3,196,693			6.49%
SUBTOTAL A (based on aggregate voting rights)	2,537,955	2,537,955	3,196,693	3,196,693			6.49%

 *Whose trading name is MFS Investment Management

B) Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration Date	Exercise/Conversion  Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of voting rights
		SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates)

Total (A+B)	number of voting rights	% of voting rights
	3,196,693	6.49%

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

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: None

Done at [place] on [date].

Schedule A

Entity	Holdings	Percentage Held*
MFS Investment Management	1,459,910	2.9647%
MFS International (U.K) Ltd.	1,069,719	2.1723%
MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc.	356,833	0.7246%
MFS Heritage Trust Company	191,788	0.3895%
MFS International Ltd.	50,298	0.1021%
MFS Investment Management K.K.	43,481	0.0883%
MFS Investment Management Canada Ltd.	24,664	0.0501%
Notifiable Interest	3,196,693	6.4916%

* Please note that MFS Investment Management is the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., MFS International Ltd., MFS International (U.K.) Limited, MFS International Management K.K., MFS Investment Management Canada Ltd., MFS Heritage Trust Company, investment managers for various pooled products and institutional clients.

Annex to the standard form TR-1

a)         Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation:

Full name (including legal form for legal entities)	Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) .....................................................................
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199 U.S.A. ..................................................................... .....................................................................
Phone number	617-954-5000 ..................................................................
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)	…………………………………………….

b)         Identity of the notifier, if applicable:

Full name	Robert R. Flaherty , Compliance Officer - Vice President .....................................................................
Contact address	111 Huntington Avenue, Boston Massachusetts 02199 U.S.A. ..................................................................... .....................................................................
Phone number	617-954-5814 ....................................................................
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

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[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.

[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 below 3%.

For the case provided for in Article 10(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC, 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]             To be used in Member States where applicable.

[ix]              Direct and indirect.

[x]               To be used in Member States where applicable.

[xi]              In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached "direct holding" and voting rights "indirect holding", 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.

[xii]              Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party (Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC).

[xiii]             Voting rights held by the notifying party independently of any holding of shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC).

[xiv]             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%.

[xv]              Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e. the date when right to acquire shares ends.

[xvi]             If the financial instrument has such a period - please specify this period - for example once every 3 months starting from [date].

[xvii]            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.

[xviii]            This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.

[xix]             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

 

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