Notification of Major Interest in Shares

 

TIDMVOC 
 
RNS Number : 1331V 
Vision Opportunity China Fund Ltd 
28 October 2010 
 

 
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| For filings with the FSA include the | 
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| For filings with issuer exclude the  | 
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                              | 
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the   |  Vision Opportunity China    | 
| underlying issuer of existing      |        Fund 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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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights             |     Yes      | 
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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  |                              | 
| to the notification obligation:    |    Baillie Gifford & Co      | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if |                              | 
| different from 3.):                |                              | 
|                                    |                              | 
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| 5. Date of the transaction and     |         26 Oct 2010          | 
| date on which the threshold is     |                              | 
| crossed or reached:                |                              | 
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified:  |                              | 
|                                    |         27 Oct 2010          | 
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are        |                              | 
| crossed or reached:                |             16%              | 
|                                    |                              | 
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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  voting      | 
|              | of         | of         | of         | voting              | rights            | 
|              | Shares     | Voting     | shares     | rights              |                   | 
|              |            | Rights     |            |                     |                   | 
+              +            +            +------------+---------------------+-------------------+ 
|              |            |            | Direct     | Direct | Indirect   | Direct | Indirect | 
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+--------+------------+--------+----------+ 
| Ordinary     |            |            |            |        |            |        |          | 
| Share        |            |            |            |        |            |        |          | 
| GG00B28DJ748 | 10,293,200 | 10,293,200 | 10,593,200 |        | 10,593,200 |        | 16.00    | 
|              |            |            |            |        |            |        |          | 
+--------------+            +            +            +        +            +        +          + 
|              |            |            |            |        |            |        |          | 
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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 voting | 
| financial       | date       | Conversion     | voting          | rights      | 
| instrument      |            | Period         | rights that may |             | 
|                 |            |                | be              |             | 
|                 |            |                | acquired if the |             | 
|                 |            |                | instrument is   |             | 
|                 |            |                | exercised/      |             | 
|                 |            |                | converted.      |             | 
|                 |            |                |                 |             | 
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|  N/A            |            |                |                 |             | 
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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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| N/A        |          |            |            |             |  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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|    10,593,200                      |    16.00                     | 
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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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| In the narrative below, the figures in [ ] indicate the amount of voting    | 
| rights and the percentage held by each controlled undertaking where         | 
| relevant.                                                                   | 
| Baillie Gifford & Co, a discretionary investment manager, is the parent     | 
| undertaking of an investment management group.                              | 
| Its wholly-owned subsidiary undertaking Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited    | 
| [1126500; 1.70%] is also a discretionary investment manager.                | 
| Its wholly-owned subsidiary undertaking Baillie Gifford & Co Limited        | 
| [1800000; 2.72%] is an OEIC Authorised Corporate Director and Unit Trust    | 
| Manager which has delegated its discretionary investment management role to | 
| Baillie Gifford & Co.                                                       | 
| Its wholly-owned subsidiary undertaking Baillie Gifford Life Limited        | 
| [298700; 0.45%] is a life assurance company which procures discretionary    | 
| investment management services from Baillie Gifford & Co in respect of its  | 
| own account shareholdings.                                                  | 
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| Proxy Voting:                                                     | 
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:      |   N/A                        | 
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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:                  |                              | 
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| 15. Contact telephone number:      |                              | 
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