IQE PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Jul 4, 2017

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04 July 2017

IQE plc

("IQE" or the "Company")

Holding(s) in Company

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
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: iii		T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv		JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York Mellon Bank Northern Trust Company
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		30 June 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:		04 July 2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		10%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
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
Direct		Direct xi		Indirect xii	Direct
GB0009619924	68,547,095			68,547,095			68,105,509
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument			Expiration date xiii		Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument		Exercise price		Expiration date xvii		Exercise/ Conversion period xviii
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights
68,105,509

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (TRPA) serves as investment adviser, with dispositive and voting authority, to various institutional clients that own shares of IQE Plc, including the T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund, which owns 54,879,464 shares.  Such shares are registered in the following name(s):   JP Morgan Chase -  63,408,415   Bank of New York Mellon  -  3,980,742   Northern Trust Company -  716,352
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
** 13. Additional information:**
14. Contact name:	Gary Greb, Vice President T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
15. Contact telephone number:	001 410 345 2527

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Source: IQE plc via Globenewswire*