24 Oct 2016 10:15
CAPITAL & COUNTIES PROPERTIES PLC (the "Company")
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
Capital & Counties Properties PLC has received a notification of interests in the Ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company as shown below:
i) Full name of Persons subject to the notification obligation
| BlackRock, Inc. | |
ii) Full name of shares holders (if different from i) | n/a | |
iii) Reason for Notification
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
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iv) Date of Transaction
| 20 October 2016 | |
v) Date issuer was notified
| 21 October 2016 | |
vi) Threshold that was crossed
| Financial Instruments holding for BlackRock, Inc. has gone below 5%
Total holding for BlackRock, Inc. remains above 11%
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vii) Situation previous to the triggering transaction
| Number of shares | 51,545,436 |
Number voting rights | 51,545,436 | |
viii) Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
| Number of voting rights | 55,607,764 (Indirect)
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% of voting rights | 6.57% (Indirect) | |
ix) Qualifying Financial Instruments - Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | Type of financial instrument | Securities Lending |
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted | 37,382,833 | |
% of voting rights | 4.41% | |
x) Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments - Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
| Type of financial instrument | CFD |
Number of voting rights instrument refers to | 3,185,859 | |
% of voting rights | 0.37% (Nominal) | |
0.37% (Delta) | ||
xi) Total
| Number of voting rights | 96,176,456
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Percentage of voting rights | 11.36% | |
xii) Chain of controlled undertakings through which voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held | Name | BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
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% of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold | 4.08%
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% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold | 2.11% | |
Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold | 6.20% | |
xiii) Additional information
| BlackRock Regulatory Threshold Reporting Team | |
xiv) Contact Name
| Marc-Oliver Lesch | |
xv) Contact telephone number:
| 020 7743 3650 | |
Leigh McCaveny
Acting Company Secretary
020 3214 9174
24 October 2016