Royal Dutch Shell - TR-1: Notification of Major Interest in Shares

LONDON, December 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B)
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying
issuer of existing shares to which voting rights
are attached: [ii] Royal Dutch Shell plc
2 Reason for the notification
(please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments
which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to
which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic
effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s)
subject to the notification obligation: BlackRock, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s)
(if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction and
date on which the threshold is crossed
or reached: [v] 14 November, 2016
6. Date on which issuer notified: 12 December, 2016
7. Threshold(s) that is/are
crossed or reached: Voting rights attached to shares holding
for BlackRock, Inc. has gone above 5%
8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares
if possible
using Situation previous
the ISIN to the triggering Resulting situation after the triggering
CODE transaction transaction
Number of Number of
Shares Voting Number of Number of
Rights of shares voting rights % of voting rights
Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
GB00B03MLX29 247,550,995 247,550,995 N/A N/A 248,378,746 N/A 3.06%
GB00B03MM408 144,180,688 144,180,688 N/A N/A 228,891,512 N/A 2.82%
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering
transaction
Number of
voting
rights that
may be acquired
if the
instrument is
Type of financial Expiration Exercise/ exercised/ % of voting
instrument date Conversion Period converted. rights
Securities Lending
(GB00B03MLX29) 2,234,800 0.02%
American Depository
Receipt (GB00B03MLX29) 16,005,448 0.19%
American Depository
Receipt (GB00B03MM408) 1,269,346 0.01%
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of % of voting
Exercise/ voting rights rights
Type of financial Exercise Expiration Conversion instrument
instrument price date period refers to
CFD
(GB00B03MLX29) 190,243 Nominal Delta
0.00% 0.00%
CFD
(GB00B03MM408) 1,851,996 0.02% 0.02%
Equity Linked Note
(GB00B03MLX29) 03/02/2017 998,890 0.01% 0.01%
Total Return Swap
(US7802592060) 14/10/2017 220,008 0.00% 0.00%
Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights
500,040,989 6.16%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
See Annex
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:
13. Additional information:
Mark Edwards
14. Contact name: Royal Dutch Shell plc
15. Contact telephone number: +44 20 7934 2817
% of voting
rights through
% of voting financial
rights if it instruments if it Total of both
equals or is equals or is if it equals or
higher than the higher than the is higher than
notifiable notifiable the notifiable
Name threshold threshold threshold
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 4, LLC
BlackRock Holdco 6, LLC
BlackRock Delaware Holdings Inc.
BlackRock Fund Advisors
BlackRock Institutional Trust
Company, National Association
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock Capital Holdings, Inc.
BlackRock Advisors, LLC
BlackRock, Inc.
Trident Merger, LLC
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Group Limited
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Holdco 3, LLC
BlackRock Canada Holdings LP
BlackRock Canada Holdings ULC
BlackRock Asset Management Canada
Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Australia Holdco Pty. Ltd.
BlackRock Investment Management
(Australia) Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Group Limited
BlackRock Investment Management (UK)
Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Group Limited
BlackRock Investment Management (UK)
Limited
BlackRock Asset Management
Deutschland AG
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 4, LLC
BlackRock Holdco 6, LLC
BlackRock Delaware Holdings Inc.
BlackRock Fund Advisors
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Group Limited
BlackRock International Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock Group Limited
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock (Singapore) Holdco Pte.
Ltd.
BlackRock Asia-Pac Holdco, LLC
BlackRock HK Holdco Limited
BlackRock Cayco Limited
BlackRock Trident Holding Company
Limited
BlackRock Japan Holdings GK
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock (Singapore) Holdco Pte.
Ltd.
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
BlackRock International Holdings,
Inc.
BR Jersey International Holdings
L.P.
BlackRock (Singapore) Holdco Pte.
Ltd.
BlackRock Asia-Pac Holdco, LLC
BlackRock HK Holdco Limited
BlackRock Asset Management North
Asia Limited
BlackRock, Inc.
FutureAdvisor, Inc.
SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc