UBS Global Asset Man Form 8.3 - [Astaire]

 

TIDMASTR 
 
RNS Number : 3089L 
UBS Global Asset Management* 
04 May 2010 
 

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 UBS Global Asset Management 
* 
are being disclosed: 
(b)  Owner or controller of interests and short 
positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): 
The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is 
insufficient 
(c)  Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose      Astaire Group Plc 
relevant securities this form relates: 
 
(d)  If an exempt fund manager connected with an 
offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of 
offeror/offeree: 
(e)  Date position held/dealing undertaken:               16 April 2010 
 
(f)  Has the discloser previously disclosed, or are 
they today disclosing, under the Code in respect of   No 
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:                ASTAIRE GROUP ORD GBP0.001 
 
Interests                        Short positions 
Number              %              Number             % 
(1)  Relevant securities owned       3,050,000                         1.47 
  0.00                                   0.00 
      and/or controlled: 
(2)  Derivatives (other than              0.00 
0.00         0.00                                  0.00 
      options): 
(3)  Options and agreements to       0.00                                   0.00 
       0.00                                  0.00 
      purchase/sell: 
3,050,000                         1.47         0.00 
    0.00 
TOTAL: 
 
(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. 
 
 
 
(a)        Purchases and sales 
 
Class of relevant           Purchase/sale        Number of securities 
Price per unit 
security 
 
 
(b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options) 
 
Class of relevant       Product            Nature of dealing           Number of 
  Price per unit 
security            description         e.g. opening/closing a         reference 
e.g. CFD             long/short position,           securities 
increasing/reducing a 
long/short position 
 
 
 
(c)        Options transactions in respect of existing securities 
 
(i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying 
 
Class         Product         Writing,        Number      Exercise       Type 
   Expiry     Option 
of        description    purchasing,         of            price           e.g. 
       date      money 
relevant e.g. call option      selling,       securities    per unit 
American,                   paid/ 
security                          varying etc.     to which 
European                 received 
option                            etc.                      per unit 
relates 
 
 
(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 (if 
security            e.g. subscription, conversion 
         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: 
 
None 
 
(c)  Attachments 
 
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached? 
 NO 
 
Date of disclosure:                                          4 May 2010 
 
Contact name:                                                 Miss Kirsty Lahmar 
 
Telephone number:                                        [phone] 
 
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 report is on behalf of: 
 
UBS Global Asset Management  (Americas) Inc 
 
UBS AG (UBS Global Asset Management operating in Switzerland) 
 
UBS Global Asset Management  (UK) Ltd 
 
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