Holding(s) in Company
November 13 2009 - 10:30AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 5080C
Microgen PLC
13 November 2009
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Microgen plc (the "Company")
Notifiable Interests
The Company received the following notice on 12 November 2009 in compliance with
the Disclosure and Transparency Rules from Aberforth Partners LLP:
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the | Microgen PLC |
| underlying issuer of existing shares to | |
| which voting rights are attached: | |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | Yes |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which | |
| may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which | |
| voting rights are attached | |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic | |
| effect to qualifying financial instruments | |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | |
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| Other (please | | |
| specify): | | |
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to | Aberforth Partners LLP |
| the notification obligation: | |
| | |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if | Shareholder |
| different from 3.): | Shares |
| | |
| | 1. Aberforth Smaller |
| | Companies Trust plc |
| | 8,790,726 |
| | 2. Aberforth UK Small |
| | Companies Fund |
| | 4,832,851 |
| | 3. The Church Commissioners |
| | for England |
| | 1,954,500 |
| | 4. Aberforth Geared Capital |
| | & Income Trust plc |
| | 1,627,000 |
| | |
| | 1,2,4 = registered in the name of |
| | Nortrust Nominees Ltd A/c |
| | Aberfrth, 3 = The Church |
| | Commissioners for England (Chase |
| | GIS) Nominees Ltd |
| | |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and date | 10/11/2009 |
| on which the threshold is crossed | |
| or reached: | |
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 11/11/2009 |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed | 20% |
| or reached: | |
| | |
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| 8. Notified details: |
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares |
| |
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| Class/type of | Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| shares | to the triggering | |
| if possible | transaction | |
| using | | |
| the ISIN CODE | | |
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| | Number | Number | Number | Number of voting | % of voting rights |
| | of | of | of | rights | |
| | Shares | Voting | shares | | |
| | | Rights | | | |
+ + + +----------------+------------------------+---------------------+
| | | | Direct | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect |
+----------------+----------------+-------------+----------------+----------+-------------+----------+----------+
| Ordinary | 17,740,977 | 17,740,977 | 17,205,077 | N/A | 17,205,077 | N/A | 19.80 |
+----------------+ + + + + + + +
| GB0005869531 | | | | | | | |
+----------------+----------------+-------------+----------------+----------+-------------+----------+----------+
+---------------------+------------+--------------------+---------------------+----------------+
| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| |
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| Type of financial | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| instrument | date | Conversion | rights that may be | rights |
| | | Period | acquired if the | |
| | | | instrument is | |
| | | | exercised/ | |
| | | | converted. | |
| | | | | |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
+---------------------+------------+--------------------+---------------------+----------------+
+---------------+----------+------------+------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial |
| Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| |
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| Type of | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of | % of voting |
| financial | | | Conversion | voting | rights |
| instrument | price | date | | rights | |
| | | | period | instrument | |
| | | | | refers to | |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Nominal | Delta |
| | | | | | | |
+ + + + + +---------------+---------+
| | | | | | N/A | N/A |
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| Total (A+B+C) |
| |
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
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| 17,205,077 | 19.80 |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: |
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| Held by Aberforth Partners LLP |
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In addition, Aberforth Partners LLP is interested in a further 2,629,200 shares
although we do not have access to the voting rights of these shares. Aberforth
Partners LLP is, therefore, interested in a total of 19,834,277 shares of the
above company. This interest arises as a result of the discretionary investment
management powers that we can exercise over the funds of our clients. Aberforth
Partners LLP is not the beneficial owner of these shares.
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| Proxy Voting: |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder: | N/A |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder | N/A |
| will cease to hold: | |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease | N/A |
| to hold voting rights: | |
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| 13. Additional information: | N//A |
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| 14. Contact name: | Pauline Robson, Aberforth |
| | Partners LLP |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | 0131 220 0733 |
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