Notification of Major Interest in Shares

RNS Number : 5772C

Circassia Pharmaceuticals Plc

18 April 2017

 

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii				Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):	Passive change: threshold passed due to an increase in the total number of voting rights in the company				X
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii		OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		12 April 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:		13 April  2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		10% (decreased to 9.79%)

8. Notified details: Investor Relations Contact: Circassia Pharmaceuticals plc Northbrook House Robert Robinson Avenue The Oxford Science Park Oxford OX4 4GA United Kingdom Tel [phone]

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type of shares if possible using the 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

% of  voting rights x

Direct

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

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32,540,657

32,540,657

32,540,657

9.79%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Expiration date xiii

Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.

% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/ Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

32,540,657

9.79%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
OppenheimerFunds, Inc. ("OFI") is a registered investment advisor with the U.S. SEC.  Its ultimate parent company, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, qualifies for disaggregation under FSA regulations.  The shares of the issuer are held by investment accounts managed by OFI and its wholly owned subsidiary, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. ("OFIG").
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the 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:	The percentage of holdings noted above is based on the updated total number of voting rights in the company to be 332,244,588, as disclosed by the company on 12 April 2017 (Completion of the Transaction and admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange), which has caused OFI to cross below the 10% threshold.
14. Contact name:	Julien Cotta
15. Contact telephone number:	01865 405560

 

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