William Hill PLC

Major Shareholding Notification • May 1, 2013

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RNS Number : 7844D

William Hill PLC

01 May 2013

The following notification was received today by William Hill PLC, relating to major interests in shares of William Hill PLC.

Dennis Read, Deputy Company Secretary

1 May 2013

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii				William Hill Plc
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights					ü
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		Schroders plc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		30.04.13
6. Date on which issuer notified:		01.05.13
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		Below 5%

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		Number of voting rights			% of  voting rights x
Direct		Direct xi		Indirect xii	Direct			Indirect
Ordinary	81,366,928			70,066,134			45,560,116		N/A		42,976,073	N/A			4.981%
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B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument			Expiration date xiii		Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv					Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.				% of voting rights
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			Number of voting rights instrument refers to				% of voting rights xix, xx
Call Option Call Option Call Option Call Option Call Option		3.69485 3.87537 4.11808 4.19727 4.20143		30/04/13 15/05/13 08/07/13 17/07/13 18/06/13		N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A			-844,320 -999,568 -957,029 -1,169,702 -937,298				Nominal			Delta
-0.098% -0.116% -0.111% -0.136% -0.109%			1 1 1 1 1
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
42,976,073								4.981%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi
Schroder Investment Management Limited                            41,282,946    4.784%           Schroder Investment Management North America Limited      1,118,161    0.130%           Schroder & Co Limited                                                                574,966     0.067%
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:	The shares referred to in section 9 are held in portfolios managed by those firms on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.
14. Contact name:	Shaheen Hussain
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7658 6000

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