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: | Shore Capital Stockbrokers Ltd |
| (b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:
Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree | Brown (N) Group Plc |
| (c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected: | Brown (N) Group Plc |
| (d) Date dealing undertaken: | 31 October 2024 |
| (e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other party to this offer? | No |
(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 |
| Ordinary | Purchases | 554,413 | 39.3p | 39.1p |
| Ordinary | Sales | 406,008 | 39.268p | 39.2p |
| 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 |
(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 |
| Class of relevant security | Product description e.g. call option | Number of securities | Exercise price per unit |
| Class of relevant security | Nature of dealing
e.g. subscription, conversion | Details | Price per unit (if applicable) |
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.
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: If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none” |
None |
| 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: | 01 November 2024 |
| Contact name: | Laura Parmenter |
| Telephone number: | 0207 648 8154 |
The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.
