GLG Partners LP Form 8.3 - Aviva Plc

 
TIDM0002 TIDMAV. 
 
 
   FORM 8.3 
 
   PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY 
 
   A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE 
 
   Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the "Code") 
 
   1.         KEY INFORMATION 
 
 
 
 
(a) Identity of the person whose positions/dealings               GLG Partners 
 are being disclosed: 
(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions          N/A 
 disclosed, if different from 1(a): 
(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant         AVIVA Plc 
 securities this form relates: 
(d) If an exempt fund manager connected with an offeror/offeree,  N/A 
 state this and specify identity of offeror/offeree: 
(e) Date position held/dealing undertaken:                        16 December 2014 
(f) Has the discloser previously disclosed, or are                YES, disclosing today in relation to Friends Life 
 they today disclosing, under the Code in respect of               Group Ltd 
 any other party to this offer? 
 
 
   2.         POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE 
 
   (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:                           25p Ordinary 
                                              Interests       Short positions 
                                            Number      %      Number      % 
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or 
 controlled:                               1,433,957  0.048 
(2) Derivatives (other than options):     14,732,216  0.500   1,849,974  0.062 
(3) Options and agreements to 
 purchase/sell:                            7,565,000  0.256 
 
  TOTAL:                                  23,731,173  0.804   1,849,974  0.062 
 
 
   All interests and all short positions should be disclosed. 
 
   Details of any open derivative or option positions, or agreements to 
purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental 
Form 8 (Open Positions). 
 
   (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: 
 
 
   If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than 
one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), 
copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of 
relevant security. 
 
   3.         DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE 
 
   (a)        Purchases and sales 
 
 
 
 
    Class of relevant      Purchase/sale  Number of securities  Price per unit 
        security 
25p Ord                    Sale           1,363                 4.66 GBP 
 
 
   (b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options) 
 
 
 
 
Class of  Product description                         Nature of dealing                          Number of   Price per 
relevant        e.g. CFD        e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing  reference     unit 
security                                             a long/short position                       securities 
25p Ord   CFDs                 Reducing short position                                           21,026      4.65 GBP 
                                Reducing long position                                            731,000     4.63 GBP 
                                                                                                  61,360      4.64 GBP 
                                                                                                  1,416,524   4.65 GBP 
 
 
   (c)        Options transactions in respect of existing securities 
 
   (i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying 
 
 
 
 
Class of    Product      Writing,    Number of   Exercise               Type                Expiry    Option 
relevant  description   purchasing,  securities  price per   e.g. American, European etc.    date      money 
security   e.g. call     selling,     to which     unit                                                paid/ 
             option       varying      option                                                        received 
                           etc.       relates                                                        per unit 
          Call option   Purchased    2,150,000   4.80 GBP   American                       16/1/15   0.10 GBP 
           Call option   Written      45,000      5.20 GBP   American                       16/1/15   0.01 GBP 
 
 
   (ii)        Exercising 
 
 
 
 
Class of relevant  Product description      Number of       Exercise price per 
    security         e.g. call option       securities             unit 
 
 
 
   (d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities) 
 
 
 
 
Class of relevant         Nature of dealing         Details   Price per unit 
     security        e.g. subscription, conversion            (if applicable) 
 
 
 
   The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated. 
 
   Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant 
securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(a), (b), 
(c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant 
security dealt in. 
 
   4.         OTHER INFORMATION 
 
   (a)        Indemnity and other dealing 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 
 person making the disclosure and any party to the 
 offer or any person acting in concert with a party 
 to the offer: 
 If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, 
 state "none" 
 
  None 
 
 
   (b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to 
options or derivatives 
 
 
 
 
Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, 
 formal or informal, between the person 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 or future acquisition or disposal 
 of any relevant securities to which any derivative 
 is referenced: 
 If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, 
 state "none" 
 
  None 
 
 
   (c)        Attachments 
 
 
 
 
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?  YES 
 
 
 
 
Date of disclosure:   17 December 2014 
Contact name:           Tom Howarth 
Telephone number:        0207 144 7249 
 
 
   Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory 
Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at 
[e-mail].  The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is 
available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure 
requirements on [phone]. 
 
   The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at 
www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk. 
 
   Supplemental form 8 http://hugin.info/137744/R/1881173/663540.doc 
 
   This announcement is distributed by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions on 
behalf of NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions clients. 
 
   The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely 
responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information 
contained therein. 
 
   Source: GLG PARTNERS LP via Globenewswire 
 
   HUG#1881173 
 
 
  http://www.glgpartners.com