| FORM 8.3 | |||||||
| Amendment - this form replaces RNS number 9737C published at 14:52 on 31/03/2025 changes made to section 2a and 3b | |||||||
| PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY | |||||||
| A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR | |||||||
| MORE | |||||||
| Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the "Code") | |||||||
| 1. | KEY INFORMATION | ||||||
| (a) | Full name of discloser: |
| Barclays PLC. | ||||
| (b) | Owner or controller of interest and short |
| |||||
|
| positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): | ||||||
| (c) | Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose | SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLC | |||||
|
| relevant securities this form relates: | ||||||
| (d) | If an exempt fund manager connected with an |
| |||||
|
| offeror/offeree, state this and specify identity of | ||||||
|
| offeror/offeree: | ||||||
| (e) | Date position held/dealing undertaken: | 28 Mar 2025 | |||||
| (f) | In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making | NO |
|
| |||
|
| disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer? |
|
| ||||
| 2. | POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE | ||||||
| (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: | 3 1/3p ordinary | ||||||
|
| Interests | Short Positions | |||||
|
| Number | (%) | Number | (%) | |||
| (1) | Relevant securities owned |
|
|
|
| ||
|
| and/or controlled: |
|
| 42,535,872 | 7.32% | 993,091 | 0.17% |
| (2) | Cash-settled derivatives: |
|
|
|
| ||
|
| and/or controlled: |
|
| 288,041 | 0.05% | 42,050,918 | 7.24% |
| (3) | Stock-settled derivatives (including options) |
|
|
|
| ||
|
| and agreements to purchase/sell: |
|
| 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
| 42,823,913 | 7.37% | 43,044,009 | 7.41% |
| (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 | Number of | Price per unit | ||||
| security |
| securities |
| ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 893,285 | 1.8923 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 221,462 | 1.8829 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 76,674 | 1.8885 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 36,805 | 1.8910 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 23,097 | 1.8878 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 16,008 | 1.8866 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 12,365 | 1.8852 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 10,126 | 1.8834 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 7,423 | 1.8854 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 6,885 | 1.8880 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 5,207 | 1.8901 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 3,724 | 1.8860 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 3,518 | 1.8942 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 2,498 | 1.8886 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,870 | 1.8849 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,650 | 1.8812 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,504 | 1.8867 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,500 | 1.8900 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,287 | 1.8830 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 1,130 | 1.8836 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 900 | 1.8833 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 836 | 1.8950 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 790 | 1.8940 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 736 | 1.8945 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 660 | 1.8850 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 656 | 1.8840 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 620 | 1.8815 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Purchase | 47 | 1.8870 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 149,162 | 1.8904 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 35,359 | 1.8832 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 20,616 | 1.8910 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 18,729 | 1.8819 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 13,882 | 1.8847 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 13,185 | 1.8881 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 11,941 | 1.8828 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 5,952 | 1.8868 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 2,818 | 1.8857 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 1,641 | 1.8842 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 1,002 | 1.8860 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 947 | 1.8869 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 836 | 1.8950 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 681 | 1.8837 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 660 | 1.8850 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 424 | 1.8899 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 57 | 1.8949 GBP | ||||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | Sale | 47 | 1.8980 GBP | ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (b) | Cash-settled derivative transactions |
| |||||
| Class of | Product | Nature of dealing | Number of | Price per | |||
| relevant | description |
| reference | unit | |||
| security |
|
| securities |
| |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 13,935 | 1.8890 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 226,512 | 1.8790 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 14,236 | 1.8800 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 11,941 | 1.8828 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 35,359 | 1.8832 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 7,934 | 1.8851 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 10,021 | 1.8853 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 438 | 1.8860 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 286 | 1.8861 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 4,493 | 1.8877 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 13,185 | 1.8881 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 136,971 | 1.8908 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 4,645 | 1.8910 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 100 | 1.8938 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Decreasing Short | 57 | 1.8949 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 719 | 1.8832 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 181 | 1.8833 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 2,235 | 1.8837 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 73 | 1.8840 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 1,333 | 1.8860 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 11,816 | 1.8864 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 72,397 | 1.8869 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 5,342 | 1.8880 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 558 | 1.8883 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 50,360 | 1.8888 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 981 | 1.8890 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 2,614 | 1.8910 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | SWAP | Increasing Short | 893,285 | 1.8923 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | CFD | Increasing Short | 2,650 | 1.8861 GBP | |||
| 3 1/3p ordinary | CFD | Increasing Short | 5,235 | 1.8911 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 person 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: | 09 Apr 2025 | ||||||
| Contact name: | Large Holdings Regulatory Operations | ||||||
| Telephone number: | 020 3134 7213 | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
