Spirent Communications PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2013

Dec 11, 2013

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RNS Number : 3158V

Spirent Communications PLC

11 December 2013

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:		Spirent Communications plc
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			Yes
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached			No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments			No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights			No
Other (please specify):___________________________			No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	See additional information under 13.
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	10 December 2013
6. Date on which issuer notified:	11 December 2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Above the threshold of 5%

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use 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				Percentage of voting rights
Direct	Direct		Indirect		Direct	Indirect
GB0004726096	N/A	N/A	276,553		276,553	31,313,992	0.044%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ conversion period	No. of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.	Percentage of voting rights

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	No. of voting rights instrument refers to	Percentage of voting rights
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
31,590,545	5.047%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Ameriprise Financial, Inc., which through intermediate holding companies controls the voting rights of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, Columbia Wanger Asset Management, Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. and Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd, which itself controls the voting rights of Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd, Threadneedle International Ltd and Threadneedle Pensions Ltd.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:

Registered Owner

Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 41407	12,598,770
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited	A/c 740190	109,743
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited	A/c 739874	448,372
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited	A/c 740311	50,168
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c ZLA05	1,149,630
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c ZLA07	8,115,999
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 07197	276,553
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 10479	14,886
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c ZLA12	148,968
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c ZLA14	42,560
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 34789	393,000
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 18667	1,918,795
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 10492	4,215,749
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 10488	808,051
Littledown Nominees Ltd	A/c 31348	1,299,301

14 Contact name:

Mark Powney, Threadneedle Group

15. Contact telephone name:

01793 363135

C: Additional information
Contact at Issuer: Rachel Whiting, Company Secretary, Spirent Communications plc Telephone: 01293 767676

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