TIDMVEC
RNS Number : 6450J
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
24 August 2021
FORM 8.5 Replacement
The Form 8.5 Vectura Group PLC announcement released on
19/08/2021 under RNS 2006J has been amended.
Amendments are identified with an asterisk (*).
The full amended text is shown below
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: Merrill Lynch International
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose Vectura Group PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
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: PMI Global Services Inc. (a
wholly owned direct subsidiary
of Philip Morris International
Inc.)
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(d) Date dealing undertaken: 18/08/2021
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(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the N/A
exempt principal trader making disclosures in
respect of any other party to this offer?
If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"
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2. DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
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.
The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be
stated.
(a) Purchases and sales
Class of relevant security Purchases/ Total number of securities Highest price Lowest price
sales per unit per unit
paid/received paid/received
0.0271p ordinary Purchase 42,329,753 1.65 GBP 0.885 GBP
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Class of relevant security Purchases/ Total number of securities Highest price Lowest price
sales per unit per unit
paid/received paid/received
0.0271p ordinary Sale 53,248,811 * 1.65 GBP 0.885 GBP
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(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product description Nature of dealing Number of reference Price per unit
relevant security e.g. CFD e.g. opening/closing a securities
long/short position,
increasing/reducing a
long/short position
0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Long Position 11,340 1.648 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Long Position 11,340 1.648 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 1,530 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 11,340 1.648 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 11,573 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 6,402 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 500,000 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 1,000,000 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 19,716 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 109,339 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 71,951 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 10,907 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 50,000 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 275,000 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 2,723 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 1,187 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 10,892 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 5,453 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 10,907 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 60,978 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 90,653 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 9,885 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 492,956 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 90,653 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 90,675 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 45,328 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 22,670 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 158,478 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 498,664 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 92,858 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 14,189 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 56,745 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 67,464 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 362,111 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 28,425 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 450,000 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 56,851 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 56,851 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 56,759 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 6,186 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 21,122 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 763,989 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 5,280 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 2,302 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 119,223 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 21,079 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 139,101 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 21,079 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 10,539 1.649 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 23 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 74 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 14 1.647 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 181 1.645 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 186 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 146 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 42 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 400 1.645 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 145 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 287 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 216 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 30 1.647 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 373 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 481 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 3,233 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 4,055 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 290 1.647 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 4,010 1.645 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 473 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 1,657 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 2,289 1.645 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 270 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 2,316 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 166 1.647 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 947 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Increasing a Short Position 1,846 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 4,885 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a Short Position 1,034 1.642 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Closing a Short Position 18,340 * 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a short position 4,451,348 * 1.646 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a short position 73,495 * 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a short position 176,505 * 1.636 GBP
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0.0271p ordinary Swaps Reducing a short position 250,000 * 1.636 GBP
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(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including
options)
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class Product Writing, Number Exercise Type Expiry date Option money
of description purchasing, of price e.g. paid/
relevant e.g. call selling, securities to per unit American, received per
security option varying etc. which option European etc. unit
relates
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
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(ii) Exercise
Class of relevant security Product description Exercising/ Number of Exercise Price per
e.g. call option exercised securities unit
against
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
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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
N/A N/A N/A N/A
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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:
Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. 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 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"
None
Date of disclosure: 24/08/2021
Contact name: Tolu Tade
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Telephone number: +44207 996 3410
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