Eland Oil & Gas Regulatory News (ELA)

2 Aug 2007 14:37

Elan Corporation PLC02 August 2007 Standard Form TR-1Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive 2004/109/ECFinancial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive 2007/14/EC(i) 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares towhich voting rights are attached (ii): Elan Corporation PLC 2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box orboxes): (X) an acquisition or disposal of voting rights ( ) an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result inthe acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached ( ) an event changing the breakdown of voting rights 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation(iii): Wellington Management Company LLP 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)(iv): Bank of New York BNP Paribas Mellon Northern Trust State Street 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed orreached(v): 30 July 2007 6. Date on which issuer notified; 31 July 2007 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 6% 8. Notified details: A) Voting rights attached to sharesClass/type of shares Situation previous to Resulting situation after the triggering transaction(if possible using the Triggering (vii)the ISIN CODE) transaction (vi) Number of Number of Number of Number of voting % of voting rights Shares Voting shares(x) rights(xi) (viii) rights(ix) Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect (xii) (xiii)Ordinary 31,648,091 6.75% (1,210,836 ordinary shares and 30,437,255 ADR shares or 31,648,091 Ordinary shares on a converted basis)SUBTOTAL A (based on 31,648,091 (1,210,836 6.75%aggregate voting ordinary shares andrights) 30,437,255 ADR shares or 31,648,091 ordinary shares on a converted basis) B) Financial InstrumentsResulting situation after the triggering transaction(xiv)Type of financial Expiration Date Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of voting rightsinstrument (xv) Period/ Date(xvi) rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted SUBTOTAL B (in relation to all expiration dates) Total (A+B) number of voting rights % of voting rights 31,648,091 (1,210,836 6.75% ordinary shares and 30,437,255 ADR Shares or 31,648,091 ordinary shares on a converted basis) 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable(xvii): Bank of New York - 30,437,255 shares BNP Paribas - 127,901 shares Mellon - 561,908 shares Northern Trust - 260,180 shares State Street - 260,847 shares 10. In case of proxy voting: (name of the proxy holder) will cease to hold(number) voting rights as of (date). 11. Additional information: Done at (place) on (date). Notes to Form TR-1 -------------------------- (i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer andto be filed with the competent authority. (ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another methodfor identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable andaccurate. (iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) thenatural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising votingrights in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of Directive 2004/109/EC; (c) all theparties to the agreement referred to in Article 10 (a) of that Directive, or (d)the holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued towhich voting rights are attached, as appropriate. In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of Article 10of that Directive, the following list is provided as indication of the personswho should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity that acquires the votingrights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the naturalperson or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration thevoting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral,provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares itsintention of exercising them, and natural person or legal entity lodging thecollateral under these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest inshares if that person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting rightsattached to the shares and the natural person or legal entity who is disposingof the voting rights when the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the controlling natural person or legal entity and, provided ithas a notification duty at an individual level under Article 9, under letters(a) to (d) of Article 10 of that Directive or under a combination of any ofthose situations, the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the votingrights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and thedepositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rightsat his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the natural person or legal entity that controls the votingrights; - in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 ofthat Directive, the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at hisdiscretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holderallowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion. (iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h)of Directive 2004/109/EC. This should be the full name of the shareholder who isthe counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in Article 10 ofthat Directive unless the holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5% ofthe total number of voting rights. (v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case ofan on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; inthe case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement. The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which theacquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect. Forpassive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect.[DEL: :DEL] (vi) Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previousnotification. In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction wasbelow 5%, please state "below 5%". (vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is below 5%. For the case provided for in Article 10(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC, thereshould be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the agreement unlessa party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This appliesupon entering into, introducing changes to or terminating an agreement. (viii) To be used in Member States where applicable. (ix) Direct and indirect. (x) To be used in Member States where applicable. (xi) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rightsattached "direct holding" and voting rights "indirect holding", please split thevoting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns - if there is nocombined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank. (xii) Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party(Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC). (xiii) Voting rights held by the notifying party independently ofany holding of shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC). (xiv) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, thenotifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,only that the new holding is below 5%. (xv) Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e.the date when right to acquire shares ends. (xvi) If the financial instrument has such a period - please specifythis period - for example once every 3 months starting from (date). (xvii) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlledundertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification shouldalso include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by eachcontrolled undertaking, [DEL:i:DEL]nsofar as individually the controlledundertaking holds 5% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parentundertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlledundertaking. This announcement has been issued through the Companies Announcement Service of The Irish Stock Exchange This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange