Legal & General Group Plc : Legal & General Group - Holding(s) in Company

Legal & General Group - Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 7653V

Legal & General Group Plc

18 January 2012

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii	Legal & General Group 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 X

Other (please specify):
3. Full name of pers notification obligati	on(s) subject to the on: iii	BlackRock, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.i)v:
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	13th January 2012
6. Date on which issuer notified:	17th January 2012
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	Holding has gone above 5%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of shares if possible using	Situation previous to the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Class/type of shares if possible using	Number	Number	Number	Number of voting	% of voting rightsx

the ISIN CODE	of Shares	of Voting Rights	of shares	rights
the ISIN CODE	of Shares	of Voting Rights	Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
GB0005603997	283,436,439	283,436,439	N/A	N/A	291,717,556	N/A	4.97%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
CFD				5,369,345	Nominal	Delta
CFD				5,369,345	0.09%	0.09%

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
297,086,901	5.06%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited - 297,086,901 (5.06%)

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:	BlackRock International Threshold Reporting Team
14. Contact name:	Andrew Manchester
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7743 5773

Note: Annex should only be submitted to the FSA not the issuer
Annex: Notification of major interests in share

A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form of legal entities)	BlackRock, Inc.
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	12 Throgmorton Avenue. London, EC2N 2DL, United Kingdom
Phone number & email	020 7743 5773; [e-mail]
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)	Andrew Manchester

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name
Contact address
Phone number & email
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

C: Additional information

For notes on how to complete form TR-1 please see the FSA website.

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