Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 5176Y

Great Portland Estates PLC

23 December 2010

 



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

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

Great Portland Estates 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 qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Cohen & Steers, Inc. ("CSI")
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc. ("CSCM") Cohen & Steers Europe S.A. ("CSE")
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	December 21st, 2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	December 22nd, 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Below 7.0% of voting rights

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
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
GB00B01FLL16	26,512,730	21,920,772	0	0	21,800,080	0	6.97%
Common Stock

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

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
N/A					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
21,800,080	6.97%

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

CSE is the controlled undertaking of CSI and holds 1,578,535 voting rights.  This is an indirect holding of less than 3%. CSCM is the controlled undertaking of CSI and holds 20,221,545 voting rights.  This is an indrect holding of more than 5%.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the 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:	Lisa D. Phelan
15. Contact telephone number:	00 1 212-4469160

 

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