FORM 8.1(c) & (d)(i)
(Dealing)
IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL
DEALING DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 8.1(c) AND (d)(i) OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL ACT, 1997, TAKEOVER RULES, 2022
BY AN OFFEROR, OFFEREE OR PARTIES ACTING IN CONCERT WITH THEM IN RESPECT OF DEALINGS FOR THEMSELVES OR FOR DISCRETIONARY CLIENTS
1. KEY INFORMATION
(a) Full name of discloser: | Dalata Hotel Group plc |
(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient. For a trust, the trustee(s), settlor and beneficiaries must be named. | Employee Benefit Trust for the benefit of current and future employees of the Offeree, managed by Computershare Trustees (Jersey) Limited |
(c) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates: Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree | Dalata Hotel Group plc |
(d) Status of person making the disclosure: e.g. offeror, offeree, person acting in concert with the offeror/offeree (specify name of offeror/offeree) | Dalata Hotel Group plc |
(e) Date dealing undertaken: | See Section 3(a)(i) |
(f) In addition to the company in 1(c) above, is the discloser also making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer? | NO |
2. INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS
If there are positions to disclose in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 2 for each additional class of relevant security.
Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (Note 1)
Class of relevant security:
(Note 2) | |
| Interests | Short positions |
Number | % | Number | % |
(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled: | 1,173,653 | 0.55 | nil | nil |
(2) Cash-settled derivatives: | nil | nil | nil | nil |
(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell: | nil | nil | nil | nil |
Total: | 1,173,653 | 0.55 | nil | nil |
All interests and all short positions should be disclosed.
Details of options including rights to subscribe for new securities and any open stock-settled derivative positions (including traded options), or agreements to purchase or sell relevant securities, should be given on a Supplemental Form 8
3. DEALINGS BY THE PERSON MAKING THE DISCLOSURE (Note 3)
Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(c), copy table 3(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
- Offeree, offeror or person acting in concert (except for a principal trader in the same group as a financial or other professional adviser acting in relation to the offer for the offeree or the offeror)
Purchases by the Employee Benefit Trust for the benefit of current and future employees of the Offeree, managed by Computershare Trustees (Jersey) Limited, being a presumed person acting in concert with the Offeree |
Class of
relevant
security | Purchase/sale (inc. date dealing undertaken) | Number of
securities | Price per unit
(Note 4) |
Ordinary | Purchase (7 March 2025) | 543,052 | €5.45 |
Ordinary | Purchase (10 March 2025) | 55,464 | €5.60 |
Ordinary | Purchase (11 March 2025) | 570,984 | €5.60 |
(ii) Principal trader where the sole reason for the connection is that the principal trader is in the same group as a financial or other professional adviser acting in relation to the offer for the offeree or the offeror
Class of
relevant
security | Purchases/
sales | Total
number of
securities | Highest
price per
unit paid/
received | Lowest
price per
unit paid/
received |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
(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
(Note 5) | Price
per unit
(Note 4) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
(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
(Note 5) | Exercise
price per
unit | Type
e.g.
American,
European
etc. | Expiry
date | Option
money
paid/
received
per unit |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
(ii) Exercise
Class of
relevant
security | Product
description
e.g. call
option | Exercising/
exercised
against | Number of
securities | Exercise
price
per unit
(Note 4) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
(d) Other dealings (including transactions in respect of new securities)
Class of
relevant
security | Nature of dealing
e.g. subscription,
conversion, exercise | Details | Price per unit
(if applicable)
(Note 4) |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
4. 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 party to the offer or person acting in concert making the disclosure and any other person: 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
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 |
