National Grid plc (NG.)
16th July 2009
Notification of Major Interest in NG. Ordinary Shares
NG has today received a further notification from Crescent Holding GmbH, over total return equity swaps, the relevant transactions having been in place for a number of years.
No threshold has been crossed. This follows an initial notification (as required by changes made to DTR5) made on 3rd June 2009, and is as a result of the extension of those previously disclosed transactions from 15 July 2009 to differing expiry dates, of 20 July 2010 over 72,142,857 and 20 January 2010 over 34,581,633, of the 106,724 490 NG voting ordinary shares involved (representing 4.38% in total).
This notice is given in fulfilment of National Grid plc's obligation under the DTR requirements.