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Barclays: Irish Form 38.5 B DCC ENERGY PLC

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Summary by 6ix AI

Barclays Capital Securities Ltd filed an Irish Takeover Panel Form 38.5(b) on November 5, 2026. It disclosed its holdings and its November 4, 2026 trades in DCC ENERGY PLC €0.25 ordinary shares. It filed as an exempt principal trader, a trading firm covered by special disclosure rules, connected to Energy Capital Partners, LLC and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., parties to the offer.

Key details

  • After the dealings, it held total interests of 2,467,190 shares (2.89%), including 2,441,691 shares (2.86%) owned or controlled and 25,499 (0.03%) through cash-settled derivatives, which are contracts settled in cash rather than shares.
  • It held total short positions of 2,288,016 shares (2.68%), including 31,024 shares (0.04%) and 2,256,992 (2.64%) through cash-settled derivatives. A short position is a holding that gains if the share price falls.
  • On November 4, 2026 it bought 195,489 shares at prices from 64.5000 GBP to 64.5572 GBP and sold 24,582 shares at prices from 64.4903 GBP to 64.5500 GBP.
  • It also made a series of swap trades, which are cash-settled derivatives, referenced to the shares. These included opening a short position on 53,204 shares at 64.5000 GBP.
  • It reported no indemnity or other dealing arrangements with any party to the offer, and no agreements on voting rights relating to options or derivatives.

6ix AI wrote this summary from the release below and checked it against the release.

Barclays PLC
05 November 2026

FORM 38.5(b)

IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL

OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE

UNDER RULE 38.5(b) OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER

PANEL ACT, 1997, TAKEOVER RULES, 2022 BY A CONNECTED

EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITHOUT RECOGNISED

INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY

STATUS BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Name of exempt principal trader

BARCLAYS CAPITAL SECURITIES LTD

(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:

DCC ENERGY PLC

(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected (Note 1)

ENERGY CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC AND KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L. P.

(d) Date position held/dealing undertaken:

04 Nov 2026

(e) In addition to the company in 1(b) above, is the exempt principal trader making disclosures in respect of any other party to the offer?

NO

2. INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS

Interests and short positions in the relevant securities of the offeror or offeree to which the disclosure relates following the dealing (if any) (Note 2)

(Note 2)

Class of relevant security :

€0.25 ordinary shares

Interests

Short Positions

Number

(%)

Number

(%)

(1) Relevant securities owned and/or controlled:

2,441,691

2.86%

31,024

0.04%

(2) Cash-settled derivatives:

25,499

0.03%

2,256,992

2.64%

(3) Stock-settled derivatives (including options) and agreements to purchase/sell:

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

TOTAL:

2,467,190

2.89%

2,288,016

2.68%

3. DEALINGS (IF ANY) BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER (Note 4)

(a) Purchases and sales

Class of relevant Security

Purchase/sale

Total number of securities

Highest price per unit paid/received

Lowest price per unit paid/received

€0.25 ordinary shares

Sale

24,582

64.5500 GBP

64.4903 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

Purchase

195,489

64.5572 GBP

64.5000 GBP

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security

Product description

Nature of dealing

Number of reference securities

Price per unit(Note 4)

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

3

64.5147 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

99

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

56

64.5187 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

433

64.4948 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

1,620

64.5323 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

26

64.5423 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Opening Short

53,204

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Closing Short

836

64.4903 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Closing Long

368

64.5333 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Long

1,963

64.5333 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

48

64.5200 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

6

64.5500 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

635

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

26,602

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

12

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

18

64.5416 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

499

64.5322 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

214

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

29,102

64.5572 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

160

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

61,288

64.5322 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

17

64.5338 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,620

64.5000 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

162

64.5462 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

69

64.5394 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

158

64.5500 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Increasing Short

365

64.5500 GBP

€0.25 ordinary shares

SWAP

Decreasing Short

1,601

64.5090 GBP

(c) Stock-settled derivative transactions (including options)

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of

Product description

Writing, purchasing,

Number of securities

Exercise price

Type

Expiry date

Option money

relevant security

selling,

to which option

per unit

paid/received per unit

varying etc.

relates (Note 7)

(ii) Exercising

Class of relevant security

Product description

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

(d) Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities)

Class of relevant security

Nature of Dealings

Details

Price per unit

(Note 7)

(if applicable) (Note 4)

4. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealings arrangements

Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding, formal or informal, relating to relevant securities

which may be an inducement to deal or refrain from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any

party to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer:

NONE

(b) Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the person disclosing and any other person relating to the

voting rights of any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the voting rights or future acquisition or

disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should be stated.

NONE

(c) Attachments

Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached?

NO

Date of disclosure:

05 Nov 2026

Contact name:

Large Holdings Regulatory Operations

Telephone number:

020 3134 7213

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