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

LONDON, September 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

   

    TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

    1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying
    issuer of existing shares to which voting rights     Royal Dutch Shell plc
    are attached: [ii]                                  (NYSE:RDS.A)(NYSE:RDS.B)
    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                                         The Capital Group
    notification obligation:                                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 September 2015
    6. Date on which issuer
    notified:                                              10 September 2015
    7. Threshold(s) that is/are
    crossed or
    reached:                                                   Below 4%

   
    8. Notified details:
    A: Voting rights attached to shares
    Class/type of
    shares if
    possible      Situation previous      Resulting situation after the triggering
    using the     to the triggering       transaction
    ISIN CODE     transaction        
                  Number        Number                Number of
                  of            of         Number     voting             % of voting
                  Shares        Voting     of shares  rights                rights
                                Rights     Direct     Direct Indirect   Direct   Indirect
    A Ordinary
   (GB00B03MLX29) 31,534,212    31,534,212                   31,534,212           0.4959%

    A ADRs
   (US7802592060) 17,233,316    34,466,632                   33,866,632           0.5326%

    B Ordinary                                       
   (GB00B03MM408) 84,272,341    84,272,341                   83,772,341           1.3175%

    B ADRs                                                                  
   (US7802591070) 52,449,595   104,899,190                  104,551,790           1.6443%

    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
               N/A

    C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
    Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
   

                                                Exercise/  Number of      % of voting
    Type of financial    Exercise   Expiration  Conversion voting rights  rights
    instrument           price      date        period     instrument
                                                           refers to
            N/A                                                           Nominal  Delta

    Total (A+B+C)
    Number of voting rights              Percentage of voting rights
         253,724,975                               3.9904%

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

    The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CG")       
    holdings                                    253,724,975              3.990%

    Holdings by CG Management Companies and                                    
    Funds:
                           
    Capital Guardian Trust Company                  230,995              0.004%
    Capital International Limited                    92,495              0.001%                     
    Capital International SArl                      139,342              0.002%
    Capital International, Inc.                      75,500              0.001%                
    Capital Research and Management Company     253,186,643              3.982%

    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:                      +44-20-7934-6024

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc