25 Mar 2011 11:15
FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI) PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1. KEY INFORMATION
(a) Name of exempt principal trader: Collins Stewart Europe Limited (b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to Interserve Plc whose relevant securities this form relates: Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which Connected party to the Offeree exempt principal trader is connected:
(Mouchel Group Plc) (d) Date dealing undertaken: 24 March 2011 (e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it NO today disclosing, under the Code in respect of any other party to this offer? If YES, specify which:
2. DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(a) Purchases and sales Class of Purchases/ Total number Highest price Lowest price relevant sales of securities per unit paid/ per unit paid/ security received received 10p Ordinary Purchase 64,280 275p 273p 10p Ordinary Sale 21,933 274.53p 274.53p
(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)
Class of Product Nature of dealing Number of Price per relevant description reference unit security e.g. opening/closing a securities e.g. CFD long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position
(c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
Class of Product Writing, Number of Exercise Type Expiry Option relevant description purchasing, securities price
date money security e.g. call selling, to which per unit e.g. paid/
option varying option American, received etc. relates European per unit etc. (ii) Exercising Class of relevant Product Number of Exercise price per
security description securities unit e.g. call option
(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)
Class of relevant Nature of dealing Details Price per unit
security (if applicable) e.g. subscription, conversion
The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.
Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.
3. OTHER INFORMATION
(a) Indemnity and other dealing 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:
If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "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 or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:
If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"
Date of disclosure: 25 March 2011 Contact name: Elizabeth Collard Telephone number: 020 7523 8241
Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk . The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.
The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk .
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