Société Générale — Major Shareholding Notification 2020

Dec 21, 2020

National Storage Mechanism | Additional information

RNS Number : 3824J

Societe Generale SA

21 December 2020

FORM 8.3

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:	Société Générale S.A.
d(b)          Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a):      The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient.  For a trust, the trustee(s), settlor and beneficiaries must be named.
(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:      Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree	G4S plc
(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:      For an opening position disclosure, state the latest practicable date prior to the disclosure	18/12/2020
(f)  In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?      If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"	NO

2.         POSITIONS OF THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

If there are positions or rights to subscribe to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2(a) or (b) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security.

(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:	Ordinary
	Interests		Short positions
	Number	%	Number	%
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:	51,831,680	3.34	298,449	0.02
(2) Cash-settled derivatives:	0	0.00	50,633,419	3.26
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:	0	0.00	0	0.00
TOTAL:	51,831,680	3.34	50,931,868	3.28

All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.

Details of any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions).

(b)        Rights to subscribe for new securities (including directors' and other employee 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 PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

(a)        Purchases and sales

Class of relevant security	Purchase/sale	Number of securities	Price per unit GBP
Ordinary	Purchase	34	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	334	2.538
Ordinary	Purchase	375	2.538
Ordinary	Purchase	1,154	2.539
Ordinary	Purchase	1,113	2.549
Ordinary	Purchase	1,783	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	1,013	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	4,000	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	466	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	7,248	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,250	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	882	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	868	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	35	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	1,468	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	316	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	2,105	2.539
Ordinary	Purchase	40	2.538
Ordinary	Purchase	1,289	2.538
Ordinary	Purchase	102	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	477	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	201	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	168	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	379	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,118	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	573	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	500	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,352	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,159	2.549
Ordinary	Purchase	1,400	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,034	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,786	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	77	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	106	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	751	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	199	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,480	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	76	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	483	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	150	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	500	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	500	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	1,736	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	600	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	200	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	200	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,184	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,156	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	146	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	47	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	853	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	49	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	200	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	2,079	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	930	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	100	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	206	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	769	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	87	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	319	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	380	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	873	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	685	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	2,240	2.54
Ordinary	Purchase	1,140	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	633	2.539
Ordinary	Purchase	208	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	107	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	609	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,000	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	750	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	1,250	2.536
Ordinary	Purchase	6,318	2.5445
Ordinary	Purchase	73	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	1	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	95	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	13	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	949	2.548998946
Ordinary	Purchase	25	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	486	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	468	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	6,084	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	2,771	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	13,353	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	6,819	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	56,950	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	6,018	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	300	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	45	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	3	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	13	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	59	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	49	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	17	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	45	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	278	2.546
Ordinary	Purchase	271	2.546
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	2	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	40	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	507	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	282	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	267	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	1,110	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	504	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	32	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	294	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	187	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	255	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	453	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	537	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	411	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	115	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	536	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.543
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	490	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	100	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	260	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	209	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	475	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	500	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	474	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	610	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	552	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	288	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	281	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	549	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	128	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	548	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	270	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	266	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	421	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	541	2.547
Ordinary	Purchase	8	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	20	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	568	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	570	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	569	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	550	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	3,153	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	500	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	862	2.545
Ordinary	Purchase	150,000	2.543822
Ordinary	Purchase	3,583	2.546
Ordinary	Purchase	3,583	2.546
Ordinary	Purchase	3,586	2.542
Ordinary	Purchase	3,585	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	3,580	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	3,586	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	3,574	2.547
Ordinary	Purchase	3,583	2.541
Ordinary	Purchase	3,374	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	3,574	2.544
Ordinary	Purchase	3,580	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	1	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	497	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	2,946	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,752	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,373	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	2,170	2.54
Ordinary	Sale	34,088	2.54
Ordinary	Sale	2,830	2.54
Ordinary	Sale	1,225	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	558	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	2,664	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,964	2.547
Ordinary	Sale	474	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	3,239	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,945	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,307	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,259	2.543
Ordinary	Sale	468	2.543
Ordinary	Sale	4,353	2.544
Ordinary	Sale	5,184	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	353	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	1,593	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	514	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	758	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	1,507	2.545
Ordinary	Sale	2,000	2.54
Ordinary	Sale	1,208	2.541001656
Ordinary	Sale	8,159	2.541
Ordinary	Sale	19,858	2.541
Ordinary	Sale	2,274	2.541
Ordinary	Sale	1	2.544
Ordinary	Sale	3,611,337	2.54206424
Ordinary	Sale	3,587	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	3,588	2.542
Ordinary	Sale	3,587	2.542
	Total Purchases	407,014
	Total Sales	3,730,621

(b)        Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. CFD	Nature of dealing e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position	Number of reference securities	Price per unit GBP
Ordinary	CFD	Increasing a short position	150,000	2.543822
Ordinary	CFD	Reducing a short position	3,611,337	2.54206424

(c)        Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

(i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. call option	Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.	Number of securities to which option relates	Exercise price per unit	Type e.g. American, European etc.	Expiry date	Option money paid/ received per unit GBP

(ii)        Exercise

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. call option	Exercising/ exercised against	Number of securities	Exercise price per unit GBP

(d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

Class of relevant security	Nature of dealing e.g. subscription, conversion	Details	Price per unit (if applicable) GBP

4.         OTHER INFORMATION

(a)        Indemnity and other dealing 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 person making the disclosure and any party to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer: Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included.  If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "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 or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced: If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

(c)        Attachments

Is a Supplemental Form 8 (Open Positions) attached?	NO

###### Date of disclosure:	21/12/2020
###### Contact name:	Paul Jenkins
###### Telephone number*:	+44 20 7676 6969

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

*If the discloser is a natural person, a telephone number does not need to be included, provided contact information has been provided to the Panel's Market Surveillance Unit.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk

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