Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 4398F

National Grid PLC

12 January 2010

 



National Grid plc (NG.)

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12th January 2010

Notification of Major Interest in NG. Ordinary Shares

NG has today received a further notification from Crescent Holding GmbH, over total return equity swaps.

The relevant transactions have been in place for a number of years and (as required by changes made to DTR5) were notified in June 2009. There was a further notification as a result of the extension of those transactions on 15 July 2009 to (a) 20 January 2010 (in the case of one transaction, referable to 34,581,633 voting rights) and (b) 20 July 2010 (in the case of the other transactions, referable to 72,142,857 voting rights). This notification is merely as a result of the extension, on 8 January 2010, of the transaction mentioned in (a) above (referable to 34,581,633 voting rights) from 20 January 2010 to 20 July 2010, so that all transactions (referable in aggregate to 106,724,490 voting rights- representing in total 4.34% of NG voting share capital) now have the same expiry date of 20 July 1010.

This notice is given in fulfilment of National Grid plc's obligation under the DTR requirements.

 

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