Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8950G

Hammerson PLC

09 February 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:

Hammerson plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		No
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached		No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments		No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights		No
Other (please specify):	The pension fund ABP (Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP) separated its pension fund from its investment and administrative organisation in 2008. For the investment and administrative organisation a new legal entitiy, APG Algemene Pensioen Groep N.V. ("APG") was established, eventually 98% owned by ABP and effectively only managing ABP's assets. APG established a multi-client structure to offer other Dutch pension funds ("Clients") the opportunity to benefit from the investment management expertise APG has developed in performing its services, as well as to diversify their portfolio of assets and benefits from ecomies of scale by pooling their assets with other Clients in several new investment pools. According to the EU Transparency Directive with regard to the notification of substantial shareholding, APG as an asset manager - within the new multi - client structure - has an obligation to report substantial shareholding as agent / attorney-in-fact  for all its Clients on an aggregated basis.  Effectively, as from today onwards, assets of ABP and other Clients are managed by APG in this new strucutre. Notifications of substantial shareholding are therefore made by and on behalf of APG.  Future notifications will also be based on the aggregated portfolio of assets managed by APG. APG is 98% owend by ABP.  Consequently ABP will report APG's position as an indirect position.	Yes

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	Please see additional information under 2.
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	N/A
6. Date on which issuer notified:	4 February 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	4%

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
Ordinary shares GB0004065016	11,880,120	11,880,120	31,706,384	N/A	31,706,384		4.51%

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

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
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
31,706,384	4.51%

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

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	APG Algemene Pensioen Groep N.V
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:	Stuart Haydon
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7887 1017

 

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