William Hill PLC Holding(s) in Company (6602B)

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RNS Number : 6602B

William Hill PLC

05 April 2017

The following notification was received today by William Hill PLC, relating to a major interest in shares of William Hill PLC.

Tom Fuller

Deputy Company Secretary

5 April 2017

 
 
 TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 
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 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying                                        William Hill Plc 
  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                                               x 
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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 
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 3. Full name of person(s) subject                                          Citigroup Global Markets Limited 
  to the 
  notification obligation: 
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 4. Full name of shareholder(s)                                                           N/A 
  (if different from 3.): 
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 5. Date of the transaction and date                                                 03-April-2017 
  on 
  which the threshold is crossed 
  or 
  reached: 
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 6. Date on which issuer notified:                                                    05-Apr-2017 
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 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed 
  or 
  reached:                                                                                 5% 
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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 
 of               to the triggering                transaction 
 shares           transaction 
 
 if possible 
 using 
 the ISIN CODE 
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                 Number           Number          Number         Number of voting             % of voting rights 
                  of               of             of shares       rights 
                  Shares           Voting 
                                   Rights 
--------------  ---------------  --------------  -------------  ---------------------------  -------------------------- 
                                                  Direct         Direct           Indirect    Direct        Indirect 
--------------      -----------    ------------  -------------  ---------------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 
  GB0031698896     42,866,787      42,866,787      28,094,527      28,094,527         0         3.2752% 
                ---------------  --------------  -------------  ---------------  ----------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 
 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              rights 
                                                                      be 
                                                                      acquired if the 
                                                                      instrument is 
                                                                      exercised/ converted. 
------------------  -------------  -------------------------------  ---------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Right to recall 
  lent securities                                                            6,871,134                   0.8011% 
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 C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial 
  Instruments (xv, xvi) 
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 Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
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 Type of           Exercise       Expiration      Exercise/        Number of voting             % of voting rights 
 financial          price         date             Conversion       rights instrument 
 instrument                                        period           refers to 
----------------  -------------  --------------  ---------------  ---------------------------  ------------------------ 
                                                                                                Nominal       Delta 
----------------  -------------  --------------  ---------------  ---------------------------  ------------  ---------- 
                                                    11/02/2017 
                                                    09/04/2017 
                                                    09/06/2017 
                                                    02/13/2018 
                                                    11/02/2017 
                                                    01/18/2018 
   Equity Swap          -                           11/17/2017             8,003,268                           0.9330% 
----------------  -------------  --------------  ---------------  ---------------------------  ------------  ---------- 
 Total (A+B+C) 
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 Number of voting rights                            Percentage of voting rights 
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                    42,968,929                                                    5.0093% 
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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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 Proxy Voting: 
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 10. Name of the proxy holder: 
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 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will 
  cease to hold: 
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 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to 
  hold voting rights: 
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  13. Additional information: 
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 14. Contact name:                                                                                Craig Watson 
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 15. Contact telephone number:                                                                 [phone] 
                                                                                 [e-mail] 
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