Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Smith (DS) Plc - Amendment

UBS AG (EPT)
25 March 2024
 

This announcement replaces the previous RNS announcement 9940H released at 11:37 on the 22nd March 2024. Amendments to sections 2a and 2b. All other information remains unchanged.

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

 

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the Code)

 

1.         KEY INFORMATION

 

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:

            UBS Investment Bank, London

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

     Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

            Smith (DS) plc

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:

            Mondi Plc connected to UBS

(d) Date dealing undertaken:

            21 March 2024

(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to this offer?

     If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"

YES

 

 

2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

 

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

 

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

 

(a)        Purchases and sales

 

Class of relevant security

Purchases/ sales

 

Total number of securities

Highest price per unit paid/received

Lowest price per unit paid/received

10p Ordinary

Buy

 

7815770

3.51000        GBP

3.43145        GBP

10p Ordinary

Sell

 

4546611

3.51000        GBP

3.47100        GBP

 

(b)        Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. CFD

Nature of dealing

e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position

Number of reference securities

Price per unit

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1110

3.492        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

2872

3.493        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

3689

3.49        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

874

3.474        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

4051

3.473        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

6001

3.472        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1628

3.498        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

3006

3.499        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1070

3.486        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

2290

3.485        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

547

3.48687203        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1693

3.4914259        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

42145

3.497117        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

409

3.49426039        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

200

3.48885        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

286

3.4960385        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

79654

3.492571        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

13685

3.490583        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

17752

3.4907936        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

9995

3.48247324        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

368

3.497364        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1550

3.498677        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

2823

3.480503        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

60016

3.489        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

2800

3.471        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

1405

3.487        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

34147

3.484178        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

4050

3.48031358024691        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

4682

3.48701409653994        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

38668

3.48676993896762        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

2897

3.49540904383845        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

4000

3.499049715        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Long

4977

3.499215        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

290000

3.498937        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

370376

3.43145541        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

1750000

3.499143        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

124226

3.49649848        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

108415

3.4965        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

128115

3.489        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

760

3.47754079        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

374

3.496618        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

44

3.468        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

42182

3.493129        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

261

3.488138        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

2657

3.485551        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

116

3.47504344        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

100000

3.48866342        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

556

3.49123        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

582

3.494102        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

253

3.500758        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

4099

3.48716516223469        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

68895

3.49737412        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

63

3.4932        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

2978

3.499        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

6328

3.49809        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

500000

3.49329        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

500000

3.443596        GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

500000

3.49329       GBP

10p Ordinary

CFD

 

Short

198022

3.49854       GBP

 

(c)        Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

 

(i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

 

Class of relevant security

Product description e.g. call option

Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.

Number of securities to which option relates

Exercise price per unit

Type

e.g. American, European etc.

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit









 

(ii)        Exercise

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

 

Class of relevant security

Nature of dealing

e.g. subscription, conversion

Details

Price per unit (if applicable)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.         OTHER INFORMATION

 

(a)        Indemnity and other dealing 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 exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none "

 

None

 

 

(b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

 

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt principal trader 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 or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

 

None

 

 

Date of disclosure:

25 March 2024

Contact name:

Richard Howard

Telephone number:

+44 (0)207 568 9128

 

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk

 

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

 

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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