William Hill PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • Nov 28, 2016

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RNS Number : 3021Q

William Hill PLC

28 November 2016

The following notification was received on 25 November by William Hill PLC, relating to a major interest in shares of William Hill PLC.

Tom Fuller

Assistant Company Secretary

28 November 2016

TR    TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer

of existing shares to which voting rights are

attached:

William Hill PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

X

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

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the

notification obligation:

HSBC Holdings plc

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):

HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited

HSBC Bank USA, National Association

HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited

HSBC Bank plc

HSBC Trustee (C.I.) Limited

INKA Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschft mbH, Dusseldorf

5. Date of the transaction and date on

which the threshold is crossed or

reached:

23rd November 2016

6. Date on which issuer notified:

25th November 2016

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or

reached:

Above 5%

8. Notified details:
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		Direct		Indirect	Direct		Indirect
GB0031698896	Below Disclosure Threshold			Below Disclosure Threshold			41,961,994		41,961,994		4,114,238	4.840 %		0.475%
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
Physically Settled Options Right to Recall (Stock Lent)										22,408 3,166,108			0.003 % 0.365 %
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument		Exercise price		Expiration date		Exercise/ Conversion period		Number of voting rights instrument refers to				% of voting rights
Cash Settled Options								2,019,645				Nominal		Delta
		0.233 %
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
51,284,393								5.916%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the

financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

NA

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

NA

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

NA

13. Additional information:

None

14. Contact name:

Sanjeev Kalha

15. Contact telephone number:

+44 (0) 20 7992 3452 

([email protected] ,

[email protected] ,)

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