William Hill PLC - Major Shareholding Notification 2017

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RNS Number : 3779A

William Hill PLC

23 March 2017

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

Tom Fuller

Assistant Company Secretary

23 March 2017



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
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
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Citigroup Global Markets Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	N/A
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	21-March-2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:	23-March-2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	5%


8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
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
Direct		Direct			Indirect	Direct
GB0031698896	44,743,124			44,743,124		23,965,226


B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument			Expiration date		Exercise/ Conversion Period
Right to recall lent securities

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

Equity Swap		-				11/02/2017 09/04/2017 09/06/2017 02/13/2018 11/02/2017 01/18/2018 11/17/2017

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights							Percentage of voting rights
41,536,627							4.8425%


9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:


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:	Connor McLaughlin
15. Contact telephone number:	+44 2895 955328 [email protected]

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