Form 8.3 - HIPGNOSIS SONGS FUND LTD Amend

Barclays PLC

11 July 2024

 

FORM 8.3 - Amendment to section 3b
Replaces form released 14:58:30 04 July 2024
RNS number: 2176V
FORM 8.3
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY
A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR
MORE
Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1	KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Full name of discloser:			Barclays PLC.
(b)	Owner or controller of interest and short
	positions disclosed, if different from 1(a):
(c)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose			HIPGNOSIS SONGS FUND LTD/THE FUND
	relevant securities this form relates:
(d)	If an exempt fund manager connected with an
	offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of
	offeror/offeree:
(e)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:			03-Jul-24
(f)	In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making			NO
	disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2	POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
(a)	Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree
	to which the disclosure relates following the dealing(if any)
Class of relevant security:				ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:				32,085,978	2.65%	14,917	0.00%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:				3	0.00%	31,949,616	2.64%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:				0	0.00%	0	0.00%
				32,085,981	2.65%	31,964,533	2.64%
TOTAL:
(b)	Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and
	other executive options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3	DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE
(a)	Purchase and sales
Class of relevant	Purchase/sale	Number of	Price per unit
security		securities
ordinary	Purchase	28,946	1.0211  GBP
ordinary	Purchase	24,186	1.0212  GBP
ordinary	Purchase	20,814	1.0219  GBP
ordinary	Purchase	6,286	1.0200  GBP
ordinary	Sale	34,546	1.0220  GBP
ordinary	Sale	247	1.0225  GBP
(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of	Product  description	Nature of dealing	Number of	Price per
relevant			reference	unit
security			securities
ordinary	CFD	Decreasing Short	247	1.0225  GBP
ordinary	CFD	Increasing Short	21,500	1.0209  GBP
ordinary	CFD	Increasing Short	24,186	1.0212  GBP
(c)	Stock-settled derivative transactions
	(including options)
(i)	Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class	Product	Writing,	Number	Exercise	Type	Expiry	Option
of	description	purchasing,	of	price		date	money
relevant		selling,	securities	per unit			paid/
security		varying etc	to which				received
			option				per unit
			relates
(ii)	Exercising
Class of relevant	Product description	Exercising/ exercised against	Number of	Exercise price per
security			securities	unit
(d)	Other dealings (including subscribing for
	new securities)
Class of relevant	Nature of Dealings	Details	Price per unit (if
security			applicable)
4	OTHER INFORMATION
(a)	Indemnity and other dealings arrangements
Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding,
formal or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal
or refrain from dealing entered into by the person making the disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b)	Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or
	derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between
the person making the disclosure and any other person relating to:
(i)  the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or
(ii) the voting rights of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c)	Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?				NO
Date of disclosure:				04-Jul-24
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

 

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