TRANSPARENCY DECLARATIONS 2018
November 27, 2018
On 27 November 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with articles 6 and 18 of the Law of 2 May 2007. In its notification of 27 November 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its total ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings) has fallen below the 3% threshold on 14 November 2018.
On 5 November 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with articles 6 and 18 of the Law of 2 May 2007. In its notification of 5 November 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its total ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings), with respect to voting rights only has fallen below the 3% threshold on 2 November 2018.
On August 17, 2018, Telenet received a notification from Liberty Global Plc and its affiliate Binan Investments B.V. in accordance with Article 74, § 8 of the Law of April 1, 2007 on public take-overs. This notification provides an update of the notification submitted by Liberty Global Plc and its affiliate Binan Investments B.V. on August 18, 2017 according to which Binan Investments B.V. declared to hold an interest in Telenet exceeding 55% of the securities holding voting rights. The notification of August 17, 2018 does not report any change in the Telenet shareholding of Binan Investments B.V. since the notification of August 18, 2017.
On 7 August 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from Lucerne Capital Management, L.P. in accordance with articles 6 and 18 of the Law of 2 May 2007. In its notification of 7 August 2018, Lucerne Capital Management, L.P. reports that its shareholding in Telenet has exceeded the 3% threshold on 3 August 2018.”
On 25 July 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from Ameriprise Financial, Inc. in accordance with articles 6 and 18 of the Law of 2 May 2007. In its notification of 25 July 2018, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. reports that its total ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings) has fallen below the 3% threshold on 23 July 2018.
On 19 March 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc., dated 16 March 2018, in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In its notification of 16 March 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings) has dropped below the 5% threshold on 15 March 2018.”
On 15 March 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In its notification of 15 March 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings) has risen above the 5% threshold on 14 March 2018.
On March 13 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In this notification, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings), with respect to voting rights only, had fallen below the 5% threshold on 9 March 2018.
On March 13 2018, Telenet received a second transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In this notification, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its total ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings) has fallen below the 5% threshold on 12 March 2018.
On March 12, 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In its notification of 12 March 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its ultimate shareholding in Telenet (aggregated with its controlled undertakings), with respect to voting rights only, has risen above the 5% threshold on 8 March 2018.
On March 8, 2018 and March 9, 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In its notification of 9 March 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reports that its ultimate shareholding, with respect to voting rights only, has fallen below the 5% threshold on 7 March 2018. In the transparency notification received on 8 March 2018, BlackRock, Inc. reported that the total shareholding in Telenet, including equivalent financial instruments, of one of its controlled undertakings, BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, had fallen below the 3% threshold on 6 March 2018.
On March 7, 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc. in accordance with Articles 6 and 18 of the Law of May 2, 2007. In this notification, BlackRock, Inc. reports that the shareholding in Telenet of one of its controlled undertakings, BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, has fallen below the 3% threshold on 5 March 2018.
On 10 January 2018, Telenet received a transparency notification from Liberty Global Plc, Liberty Global Europe LLC (merged with UnitedGlobalCom LLC), UnitedGlobalCom LLC, LGI Slovakia Holdings, Inc., LGI International LLC, Liberty Global, Inc. and Lynx Finance 1 LLC (liquidated), in accordance with article 6 of the Law of 2 May 2007. In this notification, Liberty Global Plc provides an update of its notification of 11 January 2016 in which it reported a change in the control chain of its shareholding in Telenet pursuant to a number of intra-group transactions which took place on 23 November 2015. In addition it reported that Liberty Global Plc had now become the ultimate parent company of Telenet.
In this transparency notification of 9 January 2018, Liberty Global Plc reports a change in the control chain of its shareholding in Telenet pursuant to three new intra-group transactions. First, Lynx Finance 1 LLC was dissolved and liquidated on 29 August 2017. Second, Liberty Global Europe LLC and UnitedGlobalCom LLC merged on 14 December 2017, whereby UnitedGlobalCom LLC absorbed Liberty Global Europe LLC. And third, LGI International LLC (formerly LGI International, Inc.) contributed all its shares in Liberty Global Broadband I Ltd to LGI Slovakia Holdings, Inc. on 22 December 2017. These transactions took place between and were realised by 100% subsidiaries of Liberty Global Plc, which remains the ultimate parent company of Telenet.
This transparency notification of 9 January 2018 does not report any change in the shareholding of Liberty Global Plc since its last notification of 11 January 2016.