William Hill PLC Holding(s) in Company (5724Y)
December 06 2017 - 8:00AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMWMH
RNS Number : 5724Y
William Hill PLC
06 December 2017
The following notification was received today by William Hill
PLC, relating to a major interest in shares of William Hill
PLC.
Luke Thomas
Company Secretary
6 December 2017
OAM: Major Shareholding Notifications
William Hill LEI: 213800MDW41W5UZQIX82
TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS
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1a. Identity of the issuer William Hill PLC
or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached
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1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer
(please mark with an "X" if appropriate)
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Non-UK issuer
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2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate
box or boxes with an "X")
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An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X
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An acquisition or disposal of 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. Details of person subject to the notification obligation
Name Morgan Stanley
City and country of registered Wilmington, Delaware, USA
office (if applicable)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)
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Name Morgan Stanley & Co. International
plc
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City and country of registered London, UNITED KINGDOM.
office (if applicable)
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5. Date on which the threshold 04/12/2017
was crossed or reached
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6. Date on which issuer notified 06/12/2017
(DD/MM/YYYY):
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7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification
obligation
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% of voting % of voting Total of Total number
rights attached rights through both in % of voting
to shares financial (8.A + 8.B) rights of
(total of instruments issuer
8. A) (total of
8.B 1 + 8.B
2)
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Resulting
situation
on the date
on which
threshold
was crossed
or reached 3.08% 2.90% 5.98% 858,073,997
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Position
of previous
notification
(if
applicable) 3.12% 2.90% 6.02%
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8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the
date on which the threshold was crossed or reached
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A: Voting rights attached to shares
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Class/type Number of voting rights % of voting rights
of
shares
ISIN code
(if possible)
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Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
(Art 9 of (Art 10 of (Art 9 of (Art 10 of
Directive Directive Directive Directive
2004/109/EC) 2004/109/EC) 2004/109/EC) 2004/109/EC)
(DTR5.1) (DTR5.2.1) (DTR5.1) (DTR5.2.1)
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GB0031698896 26,454,934 3.08%
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SUBTOTAL
8. A 26,454,934 3.08%
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B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a)
of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (a))
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Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting
instrument date Conversion rights that rights
Period may be acquired
if the instrument
is
exercised/converted.
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Depositary at any
Receipt time at any time 11,032 0.001%
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Right of
recall over
securities at any
lending agreements time at any time 1,597,000 0.19%
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SUBTOTAL 8.
B 1 1,608,032 0.19%
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B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect
according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC
(DTR5.3.1.1 (b))
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Type of Expiration Exercise/ Physical Number % of voting
financial date Conversion or cash of voting rights
instrument Period settlement rights
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Call Option at any
(Cash Settled) 17/01/2018 time Cash 200,778 0.02%
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Equity at any
Swap 08/01/2018 time Cash 7,500,000 0.87%
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Equity at any
Swap 01/02/2018 time Cash 108,200 0.01%
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Equity at any
Swap 28/02/2018 time Cash 15,000,000 1.75%
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Equity at any
Swap 08/10/2018 time Cash 280,800 0.03%
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Equity at any
Swap 28/11/2018 time Cash 164,700 0.02%
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SUBTOTAL
8.B.2 23,254,478 2.71%
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9. Information in relation to the person subject to
the notification obligation (please mark the
applicable box with an "X")
Person subject to the notification obligation is
not controlled by any natural person or legal entity
and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding
directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying)
issuer
Full chain of controlled undertakings through which X
the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held starting
with the ultimate controlling natural person or
legal entity (please add additional rows as necessary)
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Name % of voting % of voting Total of both
rights if it rights through if it equals
equals or is financial instruments or is higher
higher than if it equals than the notifiable
the notifiable or is higher threshold
threshold than the notifiable
threshold
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Morgan Stanley
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Morgan Stanley
Capital Management,
LLC
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Morgan Stanley
Domestic Holdings,
Inc.
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Morgan Stanley
& Co. LLC
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Morgan Stanley
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Morgan Stanley
International
Holdings Inc.
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Morgan Stanley
International
Limited
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Morgan Stanley
Investments
(UK)
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Morgan Stanley
& Co. International
plc 3.08% 5.79%
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Morgan Stanley
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Morgan Stanley
Capital Management,
LLC
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Morgan Stanley
Domestic Holdings,
Inc.
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Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney
LLC
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10. In case of proxy voting, please identify:
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Name of the proxy holder
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The number and % of voting
rights held
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The date until which the
voting rights will be held
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11. Additional information
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Place of completion Glasgow
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Date of completion 06/12/2017
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This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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