Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SPECTRIS PLC

Barclays PLC

23 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:				22 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:			2,476,683	2.49%	564,048	0.57%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			378,223	0.38%	2,258,961	2.27%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			2,854,906	2.87%	2,823,009	2.84%
(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		190,430		39.7418  GBP	39.6400  GBP
5p ordinary		Sale		183,200		39.7300  GBP	39.6400  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		100	39.6357  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7,698	39.6400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,903	39.6422  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		19,831	39.6423  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		1,267	39.6492  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		477	39.6496  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		269	39.6524  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		8,184	39.6600  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,694	39.6603  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,635	39.6604  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		4,638	39.6650  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		15,585	39.6659  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		5,556	39.6690  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7,420	39.6740  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		10,501	39.6752  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		669	39.6837  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		7,445	39.6842  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		3,155	39.6865  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		769	39.6936  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		2,937	39.7152  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Short		663	39.7222  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		44	39.6327  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		227	39.6400  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		7	39.6405  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,400	39.6479  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		20	39.6480  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		789	39.6482  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		20	39.6500  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,097	39.6503  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,042	39.6570  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,332	39.6616  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		9,662	39.6756  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4,327	39.6757  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,902	39.6793  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		275	39.6798  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		3,875	39.6827  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		4,544	39.6872  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		2,400	39.6879  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,237	39.6895  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,271	39.6919  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		511	39.6923  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,244	39.6948  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,401	39.6954  GBP
5p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		663	39.7418  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		17,053	39.6400  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		115	39.6838  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		3,981	39.6876  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		100	39.6915  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Short		6,433	39.6950  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		42	39.6400  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		1,190	39.6564  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		242	39.6635  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		395	39.6643  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		7,001	39.6650  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		16,056	39.6744  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		3,948	39.6775  GBP
5p ordinary		CFD		Increasing Short		60,272	39.7198  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:				23 Jul 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

 

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