43/2017: Notification under Art. 69.1.2 in conjunction with Art. 69b.5, Art. 87.1.5 and Art. 87.5 of the Public Offering Act
The Management Board of PBG S.A. (“PBG” or the “Company”) announces that on August 18th 2017 it received a notification made pursuant to Art. 69.1.2 in conjunction with Art. 69b.5, Art. 87.1.5 and Art. 87.5of the Public Offering Actand concerning changes in major shareholdings:
1) Notifying party:Jefferies International Limited(“JIL”):
Information on the beneficial owner:
i. Jefferies International Limited, a direct subsidiary of Jefferies International (Holdings) Limited,
ii. Jefferies International (Holdings) Limited, a direct subsidiary of Jefferies Holdings II Limited,
iii. Jefferies Holdings II Limited, a direct subsidiary of Jefferies Holdings I Limited,
iv. Jefferies Holdings II Limited, a direct subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC,
v. Jefferies Group LLC, a direct subsidiary of Limestone Merger Sub LLC,
vi. Limestone Merger Sub LLC, a direct subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation, which is the ultimate parent of Jefferies International Limited;
2) Scope of the Notification:
a. transfer of 13,270,740 PBG shares, representing 1.65% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights, by JIL to VTT under an agreement on August 14th 2017;
b. sale of 13,325,000 Series H shares, representing 1.66% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights, effected on August 14th 2017 on the regulated market;
3) agreements entered into by JIL and the following Company shareholders which acquired Series H shares (following the transaction of August 14th 2017):
i. Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas S.A. – holding 23,664,379 Series H shares (representing 2.94% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights);
Under the said agreement, JIL is entitled to issue binding instructions on the manner of exercising, at the Company’s General Meetings, the voting rights attached to those shares, and have the ownership of Series H shares transferred to JIL.
4) Number of shares held, including as percentage of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights at the Company’s General Meeting, following the transactions referred to in Section 2 of this Report as at August 14th 2017:
a. JIL directly held 5,286,314 shares, representing 0.66% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights (down from 3.79%). JIL was also entitled to issue binding instructions on the manner of exercising, at the Company’s General Meeting, the voting rights attached to 23,664,379 shares representing 2.94% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights;
b. JIL and Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas S.A. jointly held rights attached to 28,950,693 shares, representing 3.6% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights (down from 6.91%);
c. JIL also notified the Management Board that under the agreements on sale of Series H shares in PBG concluded with VTT Fund Limited (“VTT”) and Vega Select Opportunities Fund Limited (“Vega”), as at August 14th 2017 Vega was entitled to exercise voting rights attached to 11,832,189 Series H shares representing 1.47% of the Company’s share capital and total voting rights.
Full text of the Notification is attached as Appendix 1 hereto.
The Company announced the receipt of previous notifications from JIL in Current Report No. 49/2016 of November 19th 2016, Current Report No. 35/2017 of August 16th 2017, Current Report No. 36/2017 of August 17th 2017, Current Report No. 38/2017 of August 17th 2017 and Current Report No. 40/2017 of August 18th 2017.
Pliki:
current report 43/2017 (.pdf - 60,09 kB)
current report 43/2017 appendix No. 1 (.pdf - 577,34 kB)