Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC

Barclays PLC

21 July 2025

 

FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1.				KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Name of exempt principal trader:				BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose				SPECTRIS PLC
	relevant securities this form relates:
(c)	Name of the party to the offer with which exempt				SPECTRIS PLC
	principal trader is connected
(d)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:				18 Jul 2025
(e)	In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal				NO
	trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2.				POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(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:				5p ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1)	Relevant securities owned
	and/or controlled:			2,373,114	2.39%	605,281	0.61%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			419,336	0.42%	2,155,141	2.17%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			2,792,450	2.81%	2,760,422	2.78%
(b)	Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other executive
	options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3.				DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a)	Purchases and sales
Class of relevant		Purchase/sale		Total number of		Highest price per unit	Lowest price per unit
security				securities		paid/received	paid/received
5p ordinary		Purchase		305,791		39.7900  GBP	39.7000  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		117,491		39.7879  GBP	39.7000  GBP
(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of		Product		Nature of dealing		Number of	Price per
relevant		description				reference	unit
security						securities
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		38,000	39.7597  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		121	39.7000  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		39	39.7094  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,283	39.7112  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		472	39.7145  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3	39.7197  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		83	39.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		34	39.7238  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,264	39.7261  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,224	39.7303  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		637	39.7323  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		289	39.7350  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		412	39.7356  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		721	39.7373  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		464	39.7393  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,162	39.7424  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		136	39.7450  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7	39.7600  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		487	39.7628  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		33	39.7690  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		91	39.7879  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		404	39.7184  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		27,968	39.7198  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		41,132	39.7200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		105	39.7217  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		9,600	39.7277  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,199	39.7307  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		511	39.7348  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		365	39.7358  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,868	39.7359  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,887	39.7378  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4,128	39.7403  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		663	39.7419  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		735	39.7420  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		608	39.7421  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,508	39.7423  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		352	39.7424  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		231	39.7440  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		18,846	39.7454  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,051	39.7538  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		12,178	39.7552  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,899	39.7601  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,648	39.7646  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		53	39.7800  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		606	39.7878  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		3,568	39.7100  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		346	39.7376  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		49	39.7614  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		475	39.7669  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		24,348	39.7693  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		39,158	39.7341  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		694	39.7423  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		1,968	39.7469  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		5,851	39.7484  GBP
(c)	Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i)	Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class	Product	Writing,	Number	Exercise	Type	Expiry	Option
of	description	purchasing,	of	price		date	money
relevant		selling,	securities	per unit			paid/
security		varying etc	to which				received
			option				per unit
			relates
(ii)	Exercising
Class of relevant		Product description		Exercising/ exercised against		Number of	Exercise price per
security						securities	unit
(d)	Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant		Nature of Dealings		Details		Price per unit (if
security						applicable)
4.				OTHER INFORMATION
(a)	Indemnity and other dealings 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 exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party
to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:
NONE
(b)	Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between
the exempt principal trader 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 of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c)	Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?				NO
Date of disclosure:				21 Jul 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

 

END