UBS AG (EPT) Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) (4537D)

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RNS Number : 4537D

UBS AG (EPT)

28 March 2014

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the Code)

   1.         KEY INFORMATION 
 
 (a) Name of exempt principal trader:                                                         UBS AG London Branch 
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 (b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:        Dixons Retail Plc 
  Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree 
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 (c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:       Carphone Warehouse Grp Plc 
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 (d) Date dealing undertaken:                                                                     27 March 2014 
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 (e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today disclosing, under the Code in                    Yes 
 respect                                                                                    Carphone Warehouse Grp Plc 
 of any other party to this offer? 
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   2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER 
   (a)        Purchases and sales 
 
   Class of relevant      Purchases/ sales       Total number of       Highest price per unit   Lowest price per unit 
        security                                   securities              paid/received            paid/received 
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 2.5p ordinary            Buy                2120972                   0.50005 GBP              0.48935 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary            Sell               1994877                   0.50050 GBP              0.48945 GBP 
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   (b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options) 
 
    Class of relevant       Product description      Nature of dealing         Number of reference      Price per unit 
         security                 e.g. CFD         e.g. opening/closing a           securities 
                                                    long/short position, 
                                                   increasing/reducing a 
                                                    long/short position 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       101059                     0.495195 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       113970                     0.49177 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       40167                      0.498917 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       137980                     0.49409403 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      370000                     0.497402 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      12515                      0.490747 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      32335                      0.49607 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      1775                       0.4954 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      75000                      0.495809 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      227637                     0.490353 GBP 
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 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      167065                     0.492771 GBP 
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   (c)        Options transactions in respect of existing securities 
   (i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying 
 
   Class of       Product        Writing,      Number of       Exercise          Type       Expiry date   Option money 
   relevant     description    purchasing,     securities      price per         e.g.                        paid/ 
   security      e.g. call       selling,       to which         unit         American,                   received per 
                   option      varying etc.      option                        European                       unit 
                                                relates                          etc. 
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   (ii)        Exercising 
 
 Class of relevant security   Product description   Number of securities   Exercise price per unit 
                                e.g. call option 
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   (d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities) 
 
 Class of relevant security         Nature of dealing          Details   Price per unit (if applicable) 
                               e.g. subscription, conversion 
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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(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

   3.         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 exempt principal trader 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 " 
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   None 
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   (b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives 
 
 Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt 
  principal trader 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: 
  If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none" 
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   None 
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 Date of disclosure:    28 March 2014 
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 Contact name:          Gemma Crewdson 
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 Telephone number:      [phone] 
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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.

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