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PROPOSED SALE OF CALL OPTIONS IN LSEG PLC
PROPOSED SALE OF CALL OPTIONS IN LSEG PLC.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nLAUNCH PRESS RELEASE\nTHIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN ARE RESTRICTED AND NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, INTO OR IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH OFFERS OR SALES WOULD BE PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR FORM AN OFFER FOR SALE OF, OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, THE SECURITIES REFERRED TO HEREIN IN ANY JURISDICTION, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH OFFERS OR SALES WOULD BE PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.\nPLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.\nPROPOSED SALE OF CALL OPTIONS IN RESPECT OF APPROXIMATELY 10 MILLION VOTING ORDINARY SHARES OF 679/86 PENCE EACH (\"VOTING SHARES\") IN LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP PLC (\"LSEG\" OR THE \"COMPANY\").\n11 March 2024\nFurther to the announcements released on 5 March 2024 and 6 March 2024 (the \"Placing Announcements\"), BCP York Holdings (Delaware) L.P. (\"BCP York\") announces its intention to sell, indirectly, call options over, in aggregate, approximately 10 million Voting Shares (the \"Call Option Shares\") (the \"Call Option Transaction\") to Barclays Bank PLC (\"Barclays\"), Merrill Lynch International (\"BofA Securities\"), Citigroup Global Markets Limited (\"Citigroup\"), Goldman Sachs International (\"Goldman Sachs\"), J.P. Morgan Securities plc (which conducts its UK investment banking business as J.P. Morgan Cazenove) (\"J.P. Morgan Cazenove\") and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc (\"Morgan Stanley\" and together with Barclays, BofA Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Goldman Sachs in such capacities, the \"Call Option Counterparties\"). The Call Option Shares represent approximately a 1.9% economic and voting interest in the Company. The Call Option Transaction will be entered into by York Holdings II Limited (\"York Holdings II\") and York Holdings III Limited (\"York Holdings III\" and together with York Holdings II, the \"York Entities\"), being entities owned by BCP York (an entity owned by a consortium of certain investment funds affiliated with Blackstone Inc. (\"Blackstone\") and including an affiliate of Canada Pension Plan Invest...