Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC

Barclays PLC

11 November 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:				10 Nov 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:			5,606,943	5.64%	608,105	0.61%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			575,567	0.58%	5,559,048	5.59%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			6,182,510	6.22%	6,167,153	6.20%
(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		649,826		41.1000  GBP	41.0400  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		62,853		41.1000  GBP	41.0389  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		Decreasing Short		450	41.0338  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,110	41.0389  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		6,893	41.0400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		16,784	41.0414  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,868	41.0419  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		421	41.0431  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,692	41.0474  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		486	41.0493  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,601	41.0630  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		408	41.0812  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		204	41.0903  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,714	41.0939  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,609	41.0979  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,274	41.1000  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4	41.0400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,002	41.0401  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		104	41.0411  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		88,823	41.0461  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,008	41.0485  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,671	41.0503  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		9,500	41.0528  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		367	41.0538  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,245	41.0555  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		512,470	41.0580  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		669	41.0600  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,561	41.0628  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		413	41.0716  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		566	41.0793  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		466	41.0802  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		707	41.0824  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,120	41.0928  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,791	41.1000  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:				11 Nov 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

 

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