Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC

Barclays PLC

27 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:				26 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:			4,475,651	4.50%	626,715	0.63%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			618,991	0.62%	4,430,243	4.46%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			5,094,642	5.12%	5,056,958	5.09%
(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		90,283		41.3603  GBP	41.3200  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		360,560		41.3419  GBP	41.2993  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		2,595	41.3347  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		155,171	41.2993  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		156	41.3193  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		352	41.3197  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		706	41.3200  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		16,350	41.3213  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		38,476	41.3216  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,717	41.3219  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7,703	41.3236  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,352	41.3256  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		9,431	41.3265  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		31,716	41.3275  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,389	41.3298  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		25,000	41.3319  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,799	41.3351  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,081	41.3353  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		12,525	41.3354  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		8,261	41.3356  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		55	41.3393  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,754	41.3400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,208	41.3358  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,149	41.3390  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,693	41.3393  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,324	41.3400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		13,852	41.3401  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		336	41.3405  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		9,200	41.3408  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		300	41.3430  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,529	41.3435  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		789	41.3442  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,676	41.3603  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		1,066	41.3230  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:				27 Nov 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

 

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