Holding(s) in Company

 

TIDMCROP 
 
RNS Number : 1980O 
Ceres Agriculture Fund Limited 
24 June 2010 
 

 
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                              | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the   |  Ceres Agriculture Fund      | 
| underlying issuer of existing      | Limited                      | 
| 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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|                                                               |   X   | 
| 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              |       | 
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| Other (please  |                                              |       | 
| specify):      |                                              |       | 
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject  |  Weiss Asset Management LP   | 
| to the notification obligation:    |                              | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if |  Brookdale International     | 
| different from 3.):                | Partners LP, Brookdale       | 
|                                    | Global Opportunity Fund1     | 
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| 5. Date of the transaction and     |  June 16, 2010               | 
| date on which the threshold is     |                              | 
| crossed or reached:                |                              | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:  |  June 23, 2010               | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are        |  >5%                         | 
| crossed or reached:                |                              | 
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1 Weiss Asset Management LP is the Investment Manager to Brookdale Global 
Opportunity Fund and Brookdale International Partners LP. 
 
 
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| 8. Notified details:                                                                       | 
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares                                                        | 
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| Class/type    | Situation          | Resulting situation after the                         | 
| of            | previous           | triggering transaction                                | 
| shares        | to the             |                                                       | 
| if            | triggering         |                                                       | 
| possible      | transaction        |                                                       | 
| using         |                    |                                                       | 
| the ISIN      |                    |                                                       | 
| CODE          |                    |                                                       | 
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|               | Number    | Number | Number    | Number of             | % of              | 
|               | of        | of     | of        | voting                | voting            | 
|               | Shares    | Voting | shares    | rights                | rights            | 
|               |           | Rights |           |                       |                   | 
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|               |           |        | Direct    | Direct     | Indirect | Direct | Indirect | 
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|  GG00B28B2R95 |  Less     |  Less  | 6,132,661 |  6,132,661 |  n/a     |  6.7%  |  n/a     | 
|               | than      | than   |           |            |          |        |          | 
|               | 5%        | 5%     |           |            |          |        |          | 
+---------------+           +        +           +            +          +        +          + 
|               |           |        |           |            |          |        |          | 
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                 | 
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                | 
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| Type of       | Expiration | Exercise/  | Number of     | % of      | 
| financial     | date       | Conversion | voting        | voting    | 
| instrument    |            | Period     | rights that   | rights    | 
|               |            |            | may be        |           | 
|               |            |            | 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    | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/  | Number of   | % of               | 
| financial  | price    | date       | Conversion | voting      | voting             | 
| instrument |          |            | period     | rights      | rights             | 
|            |          |            |            | instrument  |                    | 
|            |          |            |            | 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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|  6,132,661                         |  6.7%                        | 
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or  | 
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| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                  | 
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| Brookdale International Partners, L.P.: 4.7%                                | 
| Brookdale Global Opportunity Fund: 2.0%                                     | 
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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:                  |  Daniel Bradford             | 
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| 15. Contact telephone number:      |  [phone]             | 
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