24 May 2010 11:12
Financial Services Authority
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES | ||||
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1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
| Independent Resources Plc | |||
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): | ||||
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | Yes | |||
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached.
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An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying 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. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: | Legal & General Group Plc (Group)
Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited (UTM)
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (LGIM)
Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) | |||
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): | Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS & LGPL) | |||
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:
| 19 May 2010 | |||
6. Date on which issuer notified: | 20 May 2010 | |||
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
| Group (Above 10%)
LGIM (Above 10%)
L&G (From 6% to 7%)
UTM (Above 5%) | |||
8. Notified details:
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A: Voting rights attached to shares | ||||||||||||||||||
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE | Situation previous to the triggering transaction | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||||||
Number of Shares | Number of Voting Rights |
Number of shares | Number of voting rights | % of voting rights | ||||||||||||||
Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect | |||||||||||||||
Ordinary 1p | 2,536,000 L&G | 5,794,000 | 2,968,200 | 2,825,800 | 7.13% | 6.79% | ||||||||||||
3,794,000 LGIM | ||||||||||||||||||
Below 5% UTM | ||||||||||||||||||
(As on 19/05/2010) | ||||||||||||||||||
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B: Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||||||||
Type of financial instrument |
Expiration date |
Exercise/ Conversion Period | Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted. |
% of voting rights | ||||||||||||||
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C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments | ||||||||||||||||||
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction | ||||||||||||||||||
Type of financial instrument
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Exercise price |
Expiration date |
Exercise/ Conversion period |
Number of voting rights instrument refers to
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% of voting rights
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Total (A+B+C) | ||||||||||||||||||
Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights | |||||||||||||||||
2,968,200 L&G
| 7.13% | |||||||||||||||||
5,794,000 LGIM
| 13.93% | |||||||||||||||||
2,825,800 UTM | 6.79%
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9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Proxy Voting: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10. Name of the proxy holder: | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13. Additional information: | Notification using the total voting rights figure of 41,573,867 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
14. Contact name: | Wayne Powell (LGIM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
15. Contact telephone number: | 020 3124 3851 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||