Form 8.3 - Ageas SA/NV

Citadel Group
25 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

22 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:

536,062

0.28

3,448

0.00

(2) Cash-settled derivatives:

 

9,715

0.00

199,805

0.10

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

0

0.00

0

0.00

 

     TOTAL:

545,777

0.29

203,253

0.10

 

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

25

40.5100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

50

40.5200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

45

40.5300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

190

40.5400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

429

40.5500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

25

40.5600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

85

40.5700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

104

40.5800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

19

40.5850 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

2,134

40.5900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

5,751

40.6000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

683

40.6100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

85

40.6200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

27

40.6350 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

210

40.6400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

138

40.6500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

813

40.6600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

393

40.6700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

308

40.6800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1,387

40.6900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

978

40.7000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

514

40.7100 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

336

40.7200 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

219

40.7300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1,371

40.7400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

1,128

40.7500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

386

40.7600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

71

40.7650 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

678

40.7700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

272

40.7800 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

505

40.7900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

3,516

40.8000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

368

40.8300 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

445

40.8400 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

50

40.8500 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

32

40.8550 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

40

40.8600 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

50

40.8700 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

25

40.8900 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

50

40.9000 EUR

Common

Buy Transaction

4

44.1150 USD

Common

Sell Transaction

235

40.5100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

125

40.5200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

503

40.5300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

305

40.5350 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

170

40.5600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

616

40.5700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,605

40.5800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

952

40.5900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

570

40.6000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

16

40.6100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

207

40.6200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

81

40.6300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

776

40.6400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

417

40.6500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

122

40.6600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

295

40.6700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

145

40.6800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

503

40.6900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

12,500

40.6950 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

2,523

40.7000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

103

40.7100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

359

40.7200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,159

40.7257 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

5,782

40.7263 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,958

40.7265 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,935

40.7266 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

3

40.7300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

29

40.7400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,737

40.7500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,763

40.7600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

2,791

40.7700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,970

40.7800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

736

40.7900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

248

40.8000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

27

40.8100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

495

40.8200 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

575

40.8300 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

725

40.8400 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

922

40.8500 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

170

40.8600 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

140

40.8700 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

596

40.8800 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

1,053

40.8900 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

653

40.9000 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

449

40.9100 EUR

Common

Sell Transaction

12

44.1450 USD

 

(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

Reducing short position

190

40.5395 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

82

40.5582 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

18

40.5600 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

46

40.6000 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

232

40.6006 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

1,783

40.6061 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

248

40.6112 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

651

40.6457 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

160

40.6550 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

188

40.6561 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

36

40.6600 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

168

40.6624 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

523

40.6730 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

733

40.6770 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

711

40.6926 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

980

40.6987 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

1,114

40.7165 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

1,234

40.7411 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

82

40.7439 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

2,891

40.7500 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

6,554

40.7506 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

3,276

40.7577 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

71

40.7608 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

38

40.7645 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

41

40.8359 EUR

Common

CFD

Reducing short position

200

40.8409 EUR

Common

CFD

Increasing short position

129

40.8531 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:

25 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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