Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 0962P

Legal & General Group Plc

18 March 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):	16/03/2009
6. Date on which issuer notified:	17/03/2009
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 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	405,515,634	405,515,634	226,688,241	226,688,241	160,517,699	3.87	2.74

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)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
387,205,940	6.61%

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

AXA                                                          12,285,018.00                                         0.20958 Direct

AXA Colonia Konzern                                  9,320,982.00                                          0.15902 Direct

AXA Colonia Konzern                                   531,863.00                                           0.00907 Indirect

AXA Financial, Inc                                         200,046.00                                          0.00341 Indirect

AXA Framlington                                       2,865,316.00                                         0.048882169 Indirect

AXA France                                               175,955.00                                            0.003001784 Indirect

AXA IM UK                                              167,879,381.00                                     2.864015081 Direct

AXA IM UK                                               2,658,381.00                                        0.045351866 Indirect

AXA Rosenberg                                       8,233,818.00                                        0.140468584 Direct

AXA Rosenberg                                       154,086.138.00                                     2.628702943 Indirect

AXA Winterthur                                       28,968,498.00                                      0.494201341 Direct

Sun Life International (IOM) Ltd                   544.00                                               0.00000928062 Direct

Total Direct        226,688,241                                       3.86729                                        Total Indirect     160,517,699                                        2.73843

T OTAL               387,205,940                #160;                       6.60572

 

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