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Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Senior plc Replacement

Source: RNS
RNS Number : 5345V
UBS AG (EPT)
05 March 2026
 

This announcement replaces the previous RNS announcement 3368V released at 11:55 on the 04th of March 2026. Amendments to sections 2a & 2b. All other information remains unchanged

 

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

 

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the Code)

 

1.         KEY INFORMATION

 

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:

            UBS Investment Bank, London

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

     Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree

            Senior plc

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:

            Advent International Limited

(d) Date dealing undertaken:

            03 March 2026

(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to this offer?

     If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"

NA

 

 

2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

 

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(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

Purchases/ sales

 

Total number of securities

Highest price per unit paid/received

Lowest price per unit paid/received

10p ordinary

Buy

 

2615028

3.02630        GBP

2.91500        GBP

10p ordinary

Sell

 

923245

3.00130        GBP

2.91500        GBP

 

(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

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

2658

2.95015367577126        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

210

2.9550005        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

4900

2.94558775510204        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

57626

2.955        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

28529

2.95674291        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

154

2.95915584        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

20053

2.944095        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

9654

2.96273617        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

7434

2.9748935        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

5259

2.94357482        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

2528

2.940246        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

1584

2.95308892        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

25351

2.94721717        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

5081

2.95096241        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

10000

2.95        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

1234

2.94794165        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

709

2.95549955        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

18563

2.9483861        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

2371

2.94538169548714        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

22993

2.957542        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

42804

2.951978        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Increasing a long position

36883

2.9452        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

1638514

3.02629942        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

165048

2.9628642        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

81841

2.951286        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

6308

2.955        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

6707

2.95929327568212        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

3559

2.955148        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

110

2.966545        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

319

2.9552        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

98089

2.97518549        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

28610

2.95504433        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

8120

2.93249061661981        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

10629

2.93961583        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

10193

2.96779245        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

6971

2.960384        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

925

2.94517838        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

4165

2.93249175656645        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

6497

2.9519367686917        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

10000

2.9625        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

567

2.94606597        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

10144

2.94516341        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

23294

2.95580352935091        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

13448

2.96431458449137        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

8576

2.9575947        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

3245

2.95927889060092        GBP

10p ordinary

CFD

 

Reducing a long position

17755

2.979525        GBP

 

(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









 

(ii)        Exercise

 

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.         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 exempt principal trader 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 "

 

None

 

 

(b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

 

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt principal trader 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"

 

None

 

 

Date of disclosure:

05 March 2026
Contact name:

Richard Howard
Telephone number:

+44 (0)207 568 9128

 

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk

 

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

 

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

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