Form 8.3 - Ageas SA/NV

Citadel Group
13 March 2024
 

FORM 8.3

 

PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY

A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE

Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

 

1.         KEY INFORMATION

 

(a) Full name of discloser:

Citadel Group

(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a):

     The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient.  For a trust, the trustee(s), settlor and beneficiaries must be named.

N/A

(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

     Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

AGEAS SA/NV

(d) If an exempt fund manager connected with an offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of offeror/offeree:

N/A

(e) Date position held/dealing undertaken:

     For an opening position disclosure, state the latest practicable date prior to the disclosure

12 March 2024

(f)  In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?

     If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"

YES

DIRECT LINE INSURANCE GROUP PLC

 

2.         POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

 

If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security.

 

(a)        Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)

 

Class of relevant security:

Common Stock

ISIN BE0974264930

 

 

Interests

Short positions

 

Number

%

Number

%

(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:

1,118,205

0.59

3,452

0.00

(2) Cash-settled derivatives:

 

104,745

0.05

109,952

0.05

(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:

0

0.00

0

0.00

 

     TOTAL:

1,222,950

0.65

113,404

0.06

 

Class of relevant security:

Common Stock

ISIN US00844W2089

 

 

Interests

Short positions

 

Number

%

Number

%

(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:

0

0.00

0

0.00

(2) Cash-settled derivatives:

 

0

0.00

0

0.00

(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:

0

0.00

0

0.00

 

     TOTAL:

0

0.00

0

0.00

 

All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.

 

Details of any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions).

 

(b)        Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors' and other employee options)

 

Class of relevant security in relation to which subscription right exists:

N/A

Details, including nature of the rights concerned and relevant percentages:

N/A

 

 

3.         DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

 

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

 

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

 

(a)        Purchases and sales

 

Class of relevant security

Purchase/sale

 

Number of securities

Price per unit

Common

Buy Transaction

205

38.8200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

278

38.8300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

29

38.8400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

160

38.8500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

580

38.8600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2

38.8700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

82

38.8900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

591

38.9100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

236

38.9200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

158

38.9300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

149

38.9700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

361

38.9800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

456

38.9900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

294

39.0000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

6

39.0100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

116

39.0200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

249

39.0300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

246

39.0400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1

39.0500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

92

39.0700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

492

39.0800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

563

39.0900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1,530

39.1000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

257

39.1100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

425

39.1200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2,021

39.1244 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

174

39.1400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

25

39.1600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

138

39.1800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

190

39.1900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1,523

39.2000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

123

39.2100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

150

39.2200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

42

39.2300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

78

39.2400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

995

39.2500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

80

39.2700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

312

39.2800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1

39.2900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

69

39.3000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

38

39.3300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

67

39.3600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

127

39.4000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

19

39.4300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

300

39.4600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

73

39.4700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

350

39.4800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

147

39.4900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2,185

39.5000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2

39.5100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

169

39.5200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

396

39.5300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

5,032

39.5500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2

42.7500 USD

Common

Buy Transaction

294

43.1300 USD

Common

Buy Transaction

1

43.1650 USD

Common

Sell Transaction

89

38.8100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

111

38.8200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

455

38.8300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

163

38.8400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

196

38.8500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

60

38.8600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

681

38.8900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

150

38.9000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

180

38.9100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

126

38.9800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

20

38.9900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,013

39.0000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

284

39.0100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

293

39.0200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

630

39.0300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

142

39.0400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

25

39.0500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

108

39.0600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

738

39.0700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

297

39.0800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

330

39.0850 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

518

39.0900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

698

39.0950 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

874

39.1000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

583

39.1100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

125

39.1200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

140

39.1300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

650

39.1400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

267

39.1500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

251

39.1600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

102

39.1700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

132

39.1800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

124

39.1900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

25

39.2000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

834

39.2100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

130

39.2200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

17

39.2300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

132

39.2400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

213

39.2500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

636

39.3000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

347

39.3100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

25

39.3500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

110

39.3600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

519

39.3900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

596

39.4000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,304

39.4100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

149

39.4150 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,189

39.4200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

3,007

39.4300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,207

39.4400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

709

39.4500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,311

39.4600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

274

39.4700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

298

39.4750 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

904

39.4800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,983

39.4900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

165

39.4950 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,368

39.5000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

50

39.5100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

97

39.5200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

166

39.5300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,074

39.5400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,583

39.5500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,201

39.5600 EUR

 

(b)        Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

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

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

89

38.8300 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

200

38.9935 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

462

39.0043 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

985

39.0053 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

696

39.0161 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

1,591

39.0168 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

643

39.0249 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

115

39.0400 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

637

39.0449 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

1,017

39.0453 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

625

39.0454 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

13

39.0900 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

4,346

39.1062 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

125

39.1062 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

15,866

39.1418 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

939

39.1498 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

1,341

39.1539 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

160

39.1902 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

297

39.2256 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

825

39.2756 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

4,504

39.3291 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

941

39.3593 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

1,255

39.3826 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

704

39.3887 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

23,541

39.3888 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

93

39.4000 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

205

39.4336 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing long position/Reducing short position

37

39.4500 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

9,730

39.5446 EUR

Common

CFD

Closing long position/Opening short position

1,632

39.5500 EUR

 

(c)        Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

 

(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

 

(ii)        Exercise

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

 

(d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

 

Class of relevant security

Nature of dealing

e.g. subscription, conversion

Details

Price per unit (if applicable)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.         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 person making the disclosure and any party to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included.  If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

 

None

 

 

(b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

 

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the person 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

 

 

(c)        Attachments

 

Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?

NO

 

 

Date of disclosure:

13 March 2024

Contact name:

Paula Santos

Telephone number*:

020 7645 9700

 

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

 

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

 

*If the discloser is a natural person, a telephone number does not need to be included, provided contact information has been provided to the Panel's Market Surveillance Unit.

 

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

 

 

 

 

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