Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 9287U

Spirent Communications PLC

21 October 2014

 



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:		Spirent Communications plc
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached			No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments			No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights			No
Other (please specify):___________________________			No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	See additional information under 13.
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	17 October 2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:	21 October 2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above the threshold of 12%

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
GB0004726096       71,830,444        71,830,444      347,118            347,118               73,610,384       0.057%         12.033%

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

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise Price	Expiration date	Exercise / conversion period	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	Percentage of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
73,957,502	12.090%

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

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:	Registered Owner Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 41407 21,006,553 HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited                                   A/c 740190 170,354 HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited                                   A/c 739874 632,702 HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited                                   A/c 740311 87,889 State Street Nominees Limited                                              A/c 2GQ6 31,887,034 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c ZLA05 1,148,601 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c ZLA07 6,398,452 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 07197 347,118 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 10479 14,716 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c ZLA12 237,536 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c ZLA14 70,131 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 34789 564,903 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 18667 3,221,462 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 10492 6,969,221 Littledown Nominees Ltd                                                    A/c 10488 1,200,830
14 Contact name:	Mark Powney, Threadneedle Group
15. Contact telephone name:	01793 363135

C: Additional information

Contact at Issuer: Michelle Balch, Assistant Company Secretary, Spirent Communications plc Telephone: [phone]

 

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