TR1 Notifications of Major In

RNS Number : 3022T

Legal & General Group Plc

24 September 2010

 



For filings with the FSA include the annex For filings with issuer exclude the annex

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares

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

Legal & General Group Plc

2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):The overall holding has not changed since the previous announcement, however, the direct holding has reduced and the indirect holding increased, as a consequence of the sale of part of AXA Life Insurance business to Resolution PLC.	X

3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	AXA S.A, 25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris and its group of companies
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	15/09/2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	22/09/2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	3%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use 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		Percentage of voting rights
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
560399	253,049,924	253,049,924	2,268,085	2,268,085	250,603,520	0.04	4.27

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period/date	No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument exercised/converted)	Percentage of voting rights

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
252,871,605	4.31%

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of 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:
14 Contact name:	Kyere Tabiri
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7003 1510

Annex to Notification of Major Interests in shares
Identification of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name			AXA S.A  and its group of companies
Contact Address			25 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris
Phone Number
Other Useful information
Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name			Kyere Tabiri
Contact Address			7 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7NX, UK
Phone Number			020 7003 1510
Other Useful information			AXA IM UK is a 100% direct subsiduary of AXA IM S.A., which is in turn indirectly wholly owned by AXA S.A.

9. Chain

Name of the Company/Fund                  Number of Shares                     % of issued share capital

Alliance Bernstein                                  2,574,100.00                             0.043882 Indirect

Alliance Capital Management                  6,112,500.00                               0.104202 Indirect

AXA Colonia Konzern                             174,000.00                                0.002966 Direct                                                                                                    40441.000000

AXA Colonia Konzern                              440,949.00                                0.007517 Indirect

AXA Financial Inc                                   28,201,411.00                            0.480759 Indirect

AXA France                                           5,375,364.00                             0.091636 Indirect

AXA IM UK                                            2,093,500.00                              0.035689 Direct

AXA IM UK                                            188,828,160.00                          3.219018 Indirect

AXA Rosenberg                                     19,071,036.00                             0.325110 Indirect

Sun Life International (IOM) Ltd                585.00                                       0.000010 Direct

Total Direct                  2,268,085                                  0.03866                                   Total Indirect                 250,603,520                              4.27212

TOTAL                252,871,605                              4.31079

 

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