Holding(s) in Company

 

TIDMWEST 
 
RNS Number : 0611K 
Western & Oriental plc 
12 April 2010 
 

 
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                                   | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the           |              Western & Oriental Plc | 
| underlying issuer                          |                                     | 
| of existing shares to which voting rights  |                                     | 
| are                                        |                                     | 
| attached:                                  |                                     | 
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):        | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                             |        | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which    |        | 
| may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting  |        | 
| rights are attached                                                     |        | 
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect  |        | 
| to qualifying financial instruments                                     |        | 
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                        |  Yes   | 
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| Other (please  |                                                        |        | 
| specify):      |                                                        |        | 
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject   |              The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 
| to the                              |                                            | 
| notification obligation:            |                                            | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s)      |                Goldman Sachs International | 
|  (if different from 3.):            |                                            | 
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| 5. Date of the transaction and date |                                 08/04/2010 | 
| on                                  |                                            | 
| which the threshold is crossed or   |                                            | 
| reached:                            |                                            | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:   |                                 12/04/2010 | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed |                                         9% | 
| or                                  |                                            | 
| reached:                            |                                            | 
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| 8. Notified details:                                                                                                                                                 | 
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                                                                                                  | 
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| Class/type   | Situation previous                               | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                               | 
| of           | to the triggering                                |                                                                                                    | 
| shares       | transaction                                      |                                                                                                    | 
| if possible  |                                                  |                                                                                                    | 
| using        |                                                  |                                                                                                    | 
| the ISIN     |                                                  |                                                                                                    | 
| CODE         |                                                  |                                                                                                    | 
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|              | Number                      | Number             | Number                 | Number                 | % of  voting rights                              | 
|              | of                          | of                 | of                     | of                     |                                                  | 
|              | Shares                      | Voting             | shares                 | voting                 |                                                  | 
|              |                             | Rights             |                        | rights                 |                                                  | 
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|              |                             |                    | Direct                 | Direct    | Indirect   | Direct                           | Indirect      | 
|              |                             |                    |                        |           |            |                                  |               | 
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|              |         30,050,000          |      13.19%        |                        |           |30,000,000  |                                  |    8.34%      | 
|              |                             |                    |                        |           |            |                                  |               | 
|GB00B104S049  |                             |                    |                        |           |            |                                  |               | 
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|              |                             |                    |                        |           |            |                                  |               | 
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                                                                                  | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                                                                                 | 
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| Type of financial                   | Expiration        | Exercise/                             | Number of voting                              | % of voting        | 
| instrument                          | date              | Conversion Period                     | rights that may be                            | rights             | 
|                                     |                   |                                       | acquired if the                               |                    | 
|                                     |                   |                                       | instrument is                                 |                    | 
|                                     |                   |                                       | exercised/                                    |                    | 
|                                     |                   |                                       | converted.                                    |                    | 
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|                                     |                   |                                       |                                               |                    | 
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                            | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                                                                                 | 
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| Type of financial              | Exercise  | Expiration      | Exercise/                 | Number of voting               | % of voting rights                       | 
| instrument                     | price     | date            | Conversion                | rights instrument              |                                          | 
|                                |           |                 | period                    | refers to                      |                                          | 
|                                |           |                 |                           |                                |                                          | 
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|                                |           |                 |                           |                                | Nominal                     | Delta      | 
|                                |           |                 |                           |                                |                             |            | 
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| Total (A+B+C)                                                                                                                                                        | 
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|                                Number of voting rights                                 |                        Percentage of voting rights                          | 
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|                                      30,000,000                                        |                                    8.34%                                    | 
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|              |                 |    |      |            |    |  |                      | |      |    |            |       |                     |    |  |            | 
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the  | 
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                      | 
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| The interest in 30,000,000 shares arose from a beneficial interest held by      | 
| Goldman Sachs International, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS Inc.      | 
| These shares are, or will be, registered at CREST in account CREPTEMP.          | 
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| Proxy Voting:                                                                   | 
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:                    |             N/A              | 
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will    |             N/A              | 
| cease                                            |                              | 
| to hold:                                         |                              | 
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to     |             N/A              | 
| hold                                             |                              | 
| voting rights:                                   |                              | 
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| 13. Additional information:          |                                          | 
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| 14. Contact name:                    | Simon Watkins                            | 
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| 15. Contact telephone number:        | 020 7821 4072                            | 
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