Notification of Major Interest in Shares

RNS Number : 4951J
hVIVO plc
18 December 2015
 



 

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

hVIVO plc

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

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

Yes

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
notification obligation:
iii

Ruffer LLP (for its discretionary clients of the Ruffer Group)

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

16 December 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified:

17 December 2015

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
reached:
vi, vii

5% to less than 5%

 

8. Notified details:

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

 

 

 

GB00B6ZM0X53

   

3,621,538

 

    

 

3,621,538

 

 

 

3,828,538

 

 

3,828,538

 

-

Less than 5%

-



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

3,828,538

Less than 5%

 

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

 

N/A


Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

N/A

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:

Ruffer LLP controls the voting rights over 3,828,538 shares (now less than 5% of the voting rights) of hVIVO plc which are held by the discretionary clients of Ruffer LLP and its subsidiaries (the voting of which is all controlled by Ruffer LLP).

This change from 5% to less than 5% is due to a recent placing of 9,111,111 new Ordinary Shares in which Ruffer LLP purchased 207,000 shares. The new shares were admitted to the market on 16 December 2015. The total number of voting rights in hVIVO plc is now 78,052,784.

14. Contact name:

Louise Stanway

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7963 8146

 


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