Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which voting rights are
attached:                                                  Strategic Equity Capital plc

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                           x

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):                                                                 


3. Full name of person(s) subject to the                   Asserva Private Trust Company
notification obligation:                                       Limited (as trustee of an
                                                               irrevocable discretionary
                                                                                  trust)
                                                                                        
4. Full name of shareholder(s)                                Lynchwood Nominees Ltd. as
 (if different from 3.):                                        nominee for Growth Value
                                                                         Securities Ltd.

5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or
reached:                                                                 21 January 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified:                                        21 January 2015

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
reached:                                                                        below 3%

8. Notified details:                                                                             
                                                                                                 
A: Voting rights attached to shares 

Class/      Situation previous       Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
type of     to the triggering                                                                      
shares      transaction

if          Number      Number       Number   Number of voting     % of  voting rights
possible    of          of           of       rights
using       Shares      Voting       shares                                              
the ISIN                Rights                                                           
CODE                                                                                             
                                     Direct   Direct   Indirect    Direct  Indirect

Ordinary    9,818,227   9,818,227    0        0        0           0       0

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                              
                                                                                                 
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                             
                                                                                                 
Type of      Expiration      Exercise/             Number of voting         % of voting
financial    date            Conversion Period     rights that may be       rights
instrument                                         acquired if the
                                                   instrument is
                                                   exercised/ converted.




C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial                    
Instruments 

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                             
                                                                                                 
Type of      Exercise price    Expiration   Exercise/    Number of voting rights    % of voting     
financial                      date         Conversion   instrument refers to       rights 
instrument                                  period
                                                                                    Nominal   Delta



Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights        Percentage of voting rights                  
                                                                                                 
0                              0                                            


9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the          
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: 

Growth Value Securities Ltd is a 100% owned subsidiary of Paramount-Finanz AG.           
Paramount-Finanz AG is a 100% owned subsidiary of Hansa Aktiengesellschaft              
which in turn is wholly owned by Asserva Private Trust Company Limited as               
trustee of an irrevocable discretionary trust.                                          


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:                                      Figures based on shares
                                                                  in issue of 57,176,013

14. Contact name:                                                            Kuno Sutter

15. Contact telephone number:                                           [phone]