William Hill PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • May 22, 2017

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RNS Number : 8200F

William Hill PLC

22 May 2017

The following notification was received on 19th May 2017 by William Hill PLC, relating to a major interest in shares of William Hill PLC.

Tom Fuller

Deputy Company Secretary

22 May 2017

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 Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited HSBC Bank plc HSBC Trustee (C.I.) Limited HSBC Global Asset Management (France) INKA Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschft mbH, Dusseldorf
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:		17th May 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:		19th May 2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:		Below 8%

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	69,464,316			69,464,316			32,923,550		32,923,550		4,176,486	3.838%		0.487%
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
Right to Recall (Stock Lent)										12,671,820			1.477 %
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
Equity Swap								18,739,102				Nominal		Delta
2.185 %
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
68,510,958								7.987%

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:

The total holdings include Stock Borrowing of 12,671,820 shares  

14. Contact name:

Sanjeev Kalha

15. Contact telephone number:

+44 (0) 20 7992 3452 

([email protected] ,

[email protected] ,)

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