TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 03/03/15 --
FORM 8.3
IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL
DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 8.3 OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL ACT, 1997, TAKEOVER
RULES, 2007 (AS AMENDED)
DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR
MORE
1. KEY INFORMATION
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Name of person dealing (Note 1) The Canada Life Assurance Company, The
Great-West Life Assurance Company, Great-
West Life & Annuity Insurance Company,
I.G. Investment Management, Ltd., Irish
Life Investment
Managers Limited, London Life Insurance
Company, PanAgora Asset Management Inc.,
The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC, Putnam
Investments Limited and Putnam Investment
Management, LLC, Setanta Asset Management
Limited, all of which are investment
management subsidiaries of Power
Corporation of Canada
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Company dealt in Aer Lingus Group plc
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Class of relevant security to
which the dealings being disclosed EUR0.05 ordinary shares (ISIN:
relate (Note 2) IE00B1CMPN86)
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Date of dealing 3 March 2015
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2. INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS
(a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of
relevant security dealt in (Note 3)
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Long Short
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Number (%) Number (%)
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(1) Relevant securities 16,323,546(3.06%)
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(2) Derivatives (other than
options)
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(3) Options and agreements to
purchase/sell
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Total 16,323,546 (3.06%)
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(b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company,
other than the class dealt in (Note 3)
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Class of relevant security: Long Short
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Number (%) Number (%)
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(1) Relevant securities
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(2) Derivatives (other than
options)
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(3) Options and agreements to
purchase/sell
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Total
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3. DEALINGS (Note 4)
(a) Purchases and sales
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Price per
Purchase/sale Number of relevant securities unit
(Note 5)
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Buy 16,784 2.3434 Euro
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Buy 10,071 2.3263 Euro
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Buy 119,216 2.3434 Euro
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Buy 71,528 2.3263 Euro
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(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options transactions)
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Number of Price per
relevant unit (Note
Product name, e.g. Nature of transaction securities (Note 5)
CFD (Note 6) 7)
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(c) Options transactions in respect of existing relevant securities
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
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Writing, Type, Option
Product selling, Number of e.g. money
name, purchasing, securities to Exercise American, Expiry paid/receiv
e.g. call varying which the option price European date ed per unit
option etc. relates (Note 7) etc. (Note 5)
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(ii) Exercising
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Product name, e.g. Number of securities Exercise
call option price per
unit (Note
5)
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(d) Other dealings (including transactions in respect of new securities)
(Note 4)
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Nature of transaction Details Price per
(Note 8) unit
(if
applicable)
(Note 5)
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4. OTHER INFORMATION
Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or
derivatives
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Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the
person disclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any
relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to
the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant
securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is referenced.
If none, this should be stated.
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Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached?
(Note 9) No
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Date of disclosure 3 March 2015
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Contact name John Mulligan
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Telephone number 204-956-8653
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If a connected EFM, name of
offeree/offeror with which connected
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If a connected EFM, state nature of
connection (Note 10)
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Contacts:
John Mulligan
204-956-8653
