HSBC Bank Plc Hsbc Bank Plc : Form 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI) - F&C Asset Management Plc

 
TIDM0000 TIDMFCAM 
 
 
   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:                       HSBC Bank Plc 
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant  F&C Asset 
 securities this form relates:                             Management Plc 
 Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree 
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt       F&C Asset 
 principal trader is connected:                            Management Plc 
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken:                 02 May 2014 
(e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today       YES 
 disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other 
 party to this 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: 
                                              Interests       Short positions 
                                            Number      %       Number      % 
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or 
 controlled:                               1,204,341  0.205 
(2) Derivatives (other than options): 
(3) Options and agreements to 
 purchase/sell: 
    TOTAL:                                 1,204,341  0.205 
 
 
   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(b), 
copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of 
relevant security. 
 
   3.         DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER 
 
   (a)           Purchases and sales 
 
 
 
 
   Class of relevant 
        security          Purchase/sale   Number of securities  Price per unit 
        Ordinary             Purchase                    1,039             119 
        Ordinary             Purchase                    1,071             119 
        Ordinary             Purchase                      763             119 
 
 
   (b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options) 
 
 
 
 
Class of  Product description                         Nature of dealing                          Number of   Price 
relevant        e.g. CFD        e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing  reference    per 
security                                             a long/short position                       securities  unit 
 
 
 
   (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     e.g. American, European etc.   date    money 
security   e.g. call    selling,     to which     per                                             paid/ 
            option       varying      option      unit                                           received 
                          etc.       relates                                                       per 
                                                                                                   unit 
 
 
 
   (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(b), 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 
 exempt principal trader 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" 
 
 
 
   (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 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" 
 
 
 
   (c)        Attachments 
 
 
 
 
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?  NO 
 
 
 
 
Date of disclosure:    06 May 2014 
Contact name:          Nidhi Gupta 
Telephone number:     0207 99 10928 
 
 
   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. 
 
   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: HSBC Bank Plc via Globenewswire 
 
   HUG#1783021 
 
 
  http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/