Form 8.3 - Ageas SA/NV

Citadel Group

20 March 2024

 

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:	Citadel Group
(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a):      The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient.  For a trust, the trustee(s), settlor and beneficiaries must be named.	N/A
(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:      Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree	AGEAS SA/NV
(d) If an exempt fund manager connected with an offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of offeror/offeree:	N/A
(e) Date position held/dealing undertaken:      For an opening position disclosure, state the latest practicable date prior to the disclosure	19 March 2024
(f)  In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?      If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"	YES DIRECT LINE INSURANCE GROUP PLC

2.         POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security.

(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: Common Stock	ISIN BE0974264930
	Interests		Short positions
	Number	%	Number	%
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:	619,999	0.32	4,264	0.00
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:	23,383	0.01	225,125	0.11
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:	0	0.00	0	0.00
TOTAL:	643,382	0.34	229,389	0.12

Class of relevant security: Common Stock	ISIN US00844W2089
	Interests		Short positions
	Number	%	Number	%
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:	0	0.00	0	0.00
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:	0	0.00	0	0.00
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:	0	0.00	0	0.00
TOTAL:	0	0.00	0	0.00

All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.

Details of any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions).

(b)        Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors' and other employee options)

Class of relevant security in relation to which subscription right exists:	N/A
Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages:	N/A

3.         DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(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	Purchase/sale	Number of securities	Price per unit
Common	Buy Transaction	55	40.1600 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	128	40.2000 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	77	40.2100 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	28	40.2300 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	163	40.2400 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	458	40.2500 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	55	40.2600 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	411	40.2700 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2,004	40.2800 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	174	40.2900 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	732	40.3000 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,252	40.3100 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,495	40.3200 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,086	40.3300 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	48	40.3350 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2,171	40.3400 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,082	40.3500 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,064	40.3600 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	956	40.3700 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	707	40.3800 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	644	40.3900 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	661	40.4000 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2,632	40.4100 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2,074	40.4200 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	916	40.4300 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	244	40.4350 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	895	40.4400 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	78	40.4500 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	376	40.4600 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2,937	40.4700 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	254	40.4750 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	784	40.4800 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,452	40.4900 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1,822	40.5000 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	2	40.5050 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	448	40.5100 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	89	40.5150 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	655	40.5200 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	892	40.5300 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	415	40.5400 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	419	40.5500 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	1	40.5600 EUR
Common	Buy Transaction	21	43.8400 USD
Common	Buy Transaction	100	43.9200 USD
Common	Sell Transaction	5	40.2100 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	37	40.2200 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	208	40.2300 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	3	40.2400 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	61	40.2500 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	220	40.2600 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	37	40.2700 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,140	40.2800 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	10,130	40.2810 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	329	40.2900 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	323	40.2927 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	334	40.2938 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	972	40.2941 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	199	40.2966 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	439	40.3000 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	436	40.3100 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	576	40.3200 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,205	40.3300 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	77	40.3302 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	43	40.3311 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	224	40.3311 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	76	40.3312 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,099	40.3400 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,451	40.3500 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,453	40.3600 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	8	40.3650 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	203	40.3700 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,552	40.3800 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	225	40.3810 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	138	40.3815 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	232	40.3816 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	667	40.3820 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,947	40.3900 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	77	40.3953 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	376	40.3963 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	130	40.3966 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	128	40.3971 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,678	40.4000 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	15	40.4050 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,678	40.4100 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,846	40.4200 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	887	40.4300 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	129	40.4350 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	689	40.4400 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	200	40.4500 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,913	40.4563 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,747	40.4564 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	8,688	40.4564 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,965	40.4568 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	982	40.4600 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	142	40.4650 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,643	40.4700 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,000	40.4800 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	9	40.4850 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	501	40.4900 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,559	40.5000 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	82	40.5050 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	2,058	40.5100 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	201	40.5200 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	810	40.5300 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	1,056	40.5400 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	465	40.5500 EUR
Common	Sell Transaction	151	43.9150 USD
Common	Sell Transaction	221	43.9900 USD

(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
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	47,346	40.1500 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	47,346	40.1500 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	101	40.2400 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	101	40.2600 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	106	40.2764 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	260	40.2910 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	118	40.2951 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	101	40.3000 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	537	40.3062 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	101	40.3300 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	94	40.3300 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	714	40.3784 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,168	40.3816 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	845	40.3880 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,993	40.3950 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,344	40.4095 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	17	40.4100 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	4,745	40.4116 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	2,756	40.4132 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	654	40.4174 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	7,742	40.4179 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,709	40.4218 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,996	40.4229 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	2,712	40.4331 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	946	40.4470 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	2,016	40.4500 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	1,295	40.4500 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	6,336	40.4516 EUR
Common	CFD	Reducing short position	200	40.5095 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	10	40.5200 EUR
Common	CFD	Increasing short position	140	40.5211 EUR

(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)

4.         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 person 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 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 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

(c)        Attachments

Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?

NO

Date of disclosure:	20 March 2024
Contact name:	Paula Santos
Telephone number*:	020 7645 9700

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's disclosure requirements on [phone].

*If the discloser is a natural person, a telephone number does not need to be included, provided contact information has been provided to the Panel's Market Surveillance Unit.

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

 

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