Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 9984D

Legal & General Group Plc

11 December 2009

 



For filings with the FSA include the annex For filings with issuer exclude the annex

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

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

Legal & General Group Plc

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
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):______________

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	AXA S.A, 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	10/12/2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	11/12/2009
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Increase in total holdings from  4.91% to 5.00%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use 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		Percentage of voting rights
				Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
0560399	288,051,114	288,051,114	187,234,897	187,234,897	105,918,384	3.19	1.81

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
293,153,281	5.00%

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:
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:	Kyere Tabiri
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7003 1510

Annex to Notification of Major Interests in shares
Identification of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name			AXA S.A and its group of companies
Contact Address			25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris
Phone Number
Other Useful information
Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name			Kyere Tabiri
Contact Address			7 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7NX, UK
Phone Number			020 7003 1510
Other Useful information			AXA IM UK is a 100% direct subsiduary of AXA IM S.A., which is in turn indirectly wholly owned by AXA S.A.

9. Chain

Name of the Company/Fund                       Number of Shares               % of issued share capital

0                                                                  5,129,685.00                         0.08751 Direct

Alliance Bernstein                                         5,148,199.00                          0.08782 Direct

AXA                                                            11,315,214.00                         0.19303 Direct

AXA Colonia Konzern                                   181,870.00                              0.00310 Direct

AXA Colonia Konzern                                   37,599.00                                0.000641413 Indirect

AXA Financial Inc                                         5,599,151.00                           0.10 Indirect

AXA France                                                 9,433,966.00                           0.160936926 Indirect

AXA IM UK                                                 165, 459,363.00                        2.822622128 Direct

AXA IM UK                                                  6,489,709.00                            0.11070994 Indirect

AXA Rosenberg                                            84,357,959.00                          0.143908835 Indirect

Sun Life International (IOM) Ltd                      566.00                                     9.65557E-06 Direct

Total Direct         187,234,897            3.19410           Total Indirect        105,918,384            1.80689

TOTAL              293,153,281            5.00099

 

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