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.

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