REG - Barclays PLC Schroders PLC - Form 8.5 EPT/Non RI SCHRODERS PLC
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RNS Number : 3205Y Barclays PLC 26 March 2026
FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1. KEY INFORMATION
(a) Name of exempt principal trader: BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose SCHRODERS PLC
relevant securities this form relates:
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt SCHRODERS PLC
principal trader is connected
(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken: 25 Mar 2026
(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal NO
trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?
2. POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a) Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or
offeree
to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any)
Class of relevant security: 20p ordinary
Interests Short Positions
Number (%) Number (%)
(1) Relevant securities owned
and/or controlled: 38,114,177 2.37% 1,466,374 0.09%
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:
and/or controlled: 309,908 0.02% 36,568,930 2.27%
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
and agreements to purchase/sell: 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
TOTAL: 38,424,085 2.39% 38,035,304 2.36%
(b) Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors and other
executive
options)
Class of relevant security in relation to
which subscription right exists
Details, including nature of the rights
concerned and relevant percentages:
3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a) Purchases and sales
Class of relevant Purchase/sale Total number of Highest price per unit Lowest price per unit
security securities paid/received paid/received
20p ordinary Purchase 980,369 5.7500 GBP 5.7397 GBP
20p ordinary Sale 1,744,252 5.7500 GBP 5.7400 GBP
(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per
relevant description reference unit
security securities
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 100,000 5.7427 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 104,867 5.7260 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 43,836 5.7400 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 4,326 5.7413 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 48,663 5.7418 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 250,000 5.7432 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 250,000 5.7434 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 250,000 5.7438 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,558 5.7439 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 250,000 5.7440 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 19,324 5.7445 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 12,272 5.7450 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 6,515 5.7461 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 2,702 5.7464 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 21,390 5.7488 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 10,354 5.7495 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Decreasing Short 1,072 5.7500 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 33,569 5.7309 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 904 5.7350 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,563 5.7397 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 40,828 5.7400 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,330 5.7402 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 32,253 5.7412 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 2,242 5.7436 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 86,747 5.7439 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 18,795 5.7441 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 3,996 5.7448 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 49,905 5.7452 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 15,114 5.7453 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 32,032 5.7454 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 11,550 5.7456 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 19,430 5.7457 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 36,694 5.7491 GBP
20p ordinary SWAP Increasing Short 4,900 5.7494 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 18,586 5.7446 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 136,530 5.7453 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Decreasing Short 39,773 5.7478 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 11,776 5.7400 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 120,755 5.7450 GBP
20p ordinary CFD Increasing Short 79,546 5.7478 GBP
(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class Product Writing, Number Exercise Type Expiry Option
of description purchasing, of price date money
relevant selling, securities per unit paid/
security varying etc to which received
option per unit
relates
(ii) Exercising
Class of relevant Product description Exercising/ exercised against Number of Exercise price per
security securities unit
(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant Nature of Dealings Details Price per unit (if
security applicable)
4. OTHER INFORMATION
(a) Indemnity and other dealings 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:
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 of future acquisition or disposal of any relevant
securities to which
any derivative is referenced:
NONE
(c) Attachments
Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached? NO
Date of disclosure: 26 Mar 2026
Contact name: Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number: 020 3134 7213
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