Barclays PLC — Director's Dealing 2025

Jan 30, 2025

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Barclays PLC

30 January 2025

FORM 8.5 (EPT/NON-RI)
PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN
EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY ("RI") STATUS
(OR WHERE RI STATUS IS NOT APPLICABLE)
Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")
1.				KEY INFORMATION
(a)	Name of exempt principal trader:				BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD
(b)	Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose				DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
	relevant securities this form relates:
(c)	Name of the party to the offer with which exempt				DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
	principal trader is connected
(d)	Date position held/dealing undertaken:				29 Jan 2025
(e)	In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal				YES:
	trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?				AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS INC
2.				POSITIONS OF THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER
(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:				1p ordinary
				Interests		Short Positions
				Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1)	Relevant securities owned
	and/or controlled:			27,612,996	2.05%	14,088,781	1.05%
(2)	Cash-settled derivatives:
	and/or controlled:			13,518,963	1.01%	26,243,346	1.95%
(3)	Stock-settled derivatives (including options)
	and agreements to purchase/sell:			0	0.00%	0	0.00%
	TOTAL:			41,131,959	3.06%	40,332,127	3.00%
(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		Total number of		Highest price per unit	Lowest price per unit
security				securities		paid/received	paid/received
1p ordinary		Purchase		7,999,446		0.7611  GBP	0.7180  GBP
1p ordinary		Sale		2,351,129		0.7613  GBP	0.7194  GBP
(b)	Cash-settled derivative transactions
Class of		Product		Nature of dealing		Number of	Price per
relevant		description				reference	unit
security						securities
1p ordinary		SWAP		Opening Long		45	0.7209  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		1,857	0.7287  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		38,340	0.7288  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		345,064	0.7341  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		2,013	0.7368  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		18,870	0.7379  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		284,497	0.7395  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		355,747	0.7421  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		3,555	0.7425  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		7,720	0.7431  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		729	0.7440  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		240,209	0.7455  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		911	0.7494  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		7,601	0.7515  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		137,000	0.7528  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Long		2,842	0.7583  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Long		470,000	0.7201  USD
1p ordinary		SWAP		Decreasing Long		850,000	0.7220  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Opening Short		200,000	0.7225  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		200,000	0.7240  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		7,220	0.7262  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		263,700	0.7274  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		433	0.7290  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		166,326	0.7314  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		123,700	0.7323  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		15,842	0.7349  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,045,812	0.7350  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,530	0.7351  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		8,103	0.7353  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		880,457	0.7367  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		96	0.7390  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		336,476	0.7398  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		204,128	0.7399  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,835	0.7408  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		21,148	0.7461  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		26,039	0.7470  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		656,757	0.7477  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		258,540	0.7499  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		68,780	0.7502  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		5,666	0.7507  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		140,750	0.7509  GBP
1p ordinary		SWAP		Increasing Short		1,068	0.7515  GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Opening Long		74,384	0.7475  GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Long		44,702	0.7350  GBP
1p ordinary		CFD		Decreasing Long		16,922	0.7407  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 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 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:				30 Jan 2025
Contact name:				Large Holdings Regulatory Operations
Telephone number:				020 3134 7213

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