Royal Dutch Shell: TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares
LONDON, January 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer
of existing shares to which voting rights are Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS.A)(RDS.B)
attached: [ii]
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may
result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting
rights are attached No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect
to qualifying financial instruments No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify): No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to
the notification obligation: The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s)
(if different from 3.): See answer to Question 9
5. Date of the transaction and date on
which the threshold is crossed or
reached: [v] 9 January 2015
6. Date on which issuer notified: 13 January 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
reached: Above 4%
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8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of
shares
if possible Situation previous
using to the triggering Resulting situation after the triggering
the ISIN CODE transaction transaction
Number
Number of
of Voting Number Number of voting % of
Shares Rights of shares rights voting rights
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
A Ordinary
(GB00B03MLX29) 25,003,926 25,003,926 25,003,926 0.394%
A ADRs
(US7802592060) 20,624,761 41,249,522 41,249,522 0.650%
B Ordinary
(GB00B03MM408) 70,555,359 70,555,359 71,470,718 1.127%
B ADRs
(US7802591070) 57,932,746 115,865,492 116,227,668 1.832%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of voting
rights that may be
acquired if the
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ instrument is % of voting
instrument date Conversion Period exercised/ converted. rights
N/A
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of voting
Exercise/ rights instrument % of voting
Type of financial Exercise Expiration Conversion refers to rights
instrument price date period
N/A Nominal Delta
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
253,951,834 4.003%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CG")
holdings
Holdings by CG Management Companies and
Funds:
Number of Shares Percent of Outstanding
Capital Guardian Trust Company
1,742,063 0.027%
Capital International Limited
622,657 0.010%
Capital International SArl
462,914 0.007%
Capital International, Inc.
342,100 0.005%
Capital Research and Management Company
250,782,100 3.953%
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
voting rights:
Mark Edwards
Royal Dutch Shell plc
+44-20-7934-2817
SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc
