RNS Number : 5724C
Barclays PLC
08 October 2025
 

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

 

DOWLAIS GROUP PLC

 

relevant securities this form relates:

 

(c)

Name of the party to the offer with which exempt

DOWLAIS GROUP PLC

 

principal trader is connected

 

 

(d)

Date position held/dealing undertaken:

 

07 Oct 2025

(e)

In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal

YES:

 

 

 

trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?

AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS INC

 

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:

1p ordinary

 

Interests

Short Positions

 

Number

(%)

Number

(%)

(1)

Relevant securities owned

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

35,171,616

2.67%

2,224,444

0.17%

(2)

Cash-settled derivatives:

 

 

 

 

 

and/or controlled:

 

 

1,599,673

0.12%

35,079,652

2.66%

(3)

Stock-settled derivatives (including options)

 

 

 

 

 

and agreements to purchase/sell:

 

 

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL:

 

 

36,771,289

2.79%

37,304,096

2.83%

(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

1p ordinary

Purchase

473,766

0.8144  GBP

0.8020  GBP

1p ordinary

Sale

478,392

0.8140  GBP

0.8019  GBP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Cash-settled derivative transactions

 

Class of

Product

Nature of dealing

Number of

Price per

relevant

description

 

reference

unit

security

 

 

securities

 

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

17,499

0.8072  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

33,446

0.8019  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

64,785

0.8020  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

6,940

0.8050  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

33,139

0.8060  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

7,864

0.8067  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

11,202

0.8070  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

10,101

0.8071  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

6

0.8079  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

551

0.8080  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

86

0.8091  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

9,816

0.8094  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1

0.8100  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

656

0.8102  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

20,046

0.8104  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1

0.8105  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

6,469

0.8106  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

7,530

0.8113  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

2,663

0.8114  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,099

0.8119  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

96,257

0.8120  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Decreasing Short

365

0.8129  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

26,691

0.8020  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

8,719

0.8046  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

13,704

0.8069  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

200,173

0.8099  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

4,547

0.8114  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

811

0.8115  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

30,342

0.8117  GBP

1p ordinary

SWAP

Increasing Short

2,338

0.8118  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

20,201

0.8020  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

23,715

0.8040  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Long

895

0.8059  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Long

26,432

0.8034  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Long

1,800

0.8086  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Decreasing Long

2,082

0.8088  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Opening Short

17,709

0.8092  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

223

0.8094  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

46

0.8095  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

549

0.8096  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

129

0.8107  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

2,592

0.8109  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

198

0.8110  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

4,543

0.8116  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

3,616

0.8127  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

2,110

0.8130  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

5,997

0.8143  GBP

1p ordinary

CFD

Increasing Short

2,322

0.8144  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:

08 Oct 2025

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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