SAR - Asian Tech Trust plc

RNS Number:2809O
Dresdner Klein. Wasserstein Grp Ltd
6 December 2001


                                                                    FORM SAR 3

Lodge with Company Announcements Office and Newstrack, if appropriate, and the
Takeover Panel. A copy must also be sent to the company the shares of which
are acquired.

                                 Date of disclosure..........6th December 2001

  DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 3 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITIONS OF
                               SHARES ("SARs")


Date of acquisition ............5th December 2001.............

Acquisition in ............Asian Technology Trust plc.........(name of company)


(1)   Class of        Number of shares/     If rights over shares acquired, as
voting shares         rights over shares    opposed to the shares themselves,
(eg ordinary shares)  acquired              specify nature of rights
        

     Ordinary           2,500,000                     N/A
 ................    .............   shares    .................

                     .............   rights



(2)   Resultant total holding of      Resultant total holding of         Total
      voting shares (and % of total   rights over shares (and %     percentage
      voting shares in issue)         of total voting shares
                                      in issue)

       19,062,534..... (28.81%)      .................. (   %)         28.81%


(3)   Party making disclosure .......Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Group
                                     Limited  (a member of the Allianz AG group)


(4)   (a)   Name of person acquiring shares or rights over shares
            .....Merchant Investors Assurance Company Limited (a member of the 
                 Allianz AG group)

            and, if different, beneficial owner .....(n/a)


      (b)   Names of any other persons acting by
            agreement or understanding (see SAR 5)  ......(n/a)



Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above

(Also print name of signatory)

     SJ Lowe                                JC Wall


Telephone and extension number 020 7475 2194


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Note.  Under SAR 5, the holdings of and acquisitions by persons acting by
agreement or understanding must be aggregated and treated as a holding of or
acquisition by one person. Note 3 on SAR 5 requires persons who must aggregate
holdings to disclose certain disposals.

For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5 of the
SARs. If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, Monitoring
Section, Tel. No: 020 7638 0129.