Gulfsands Petroleum - News Releases - TR-1 Notification of Major Interest in Shares

January 10, 2012
TR-1 Notification of Major Interest in Shares

For filings with the FSA include the annex

For filings with issuer exclude the annex

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	Gulfsands Petroleum Plc
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached	N/A
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments	N/A
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights	N/A
Other (please specify): Change of share capital and voting rights after buyback program	N/A
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:ⁱⁱⁱ	YF Finance Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):^iv	See above
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:^v	3 January, 2012
6. Date on which issuer notified:	6 January, 2012
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: ^{vi, vii}	Over 3%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares ^{viii, ix}

Class/type of
shares

if possible using
the ISIN CODE

Situation previous
to the triggering
transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number
of
Shares

Number
of
Voting
Rights

Number
of shares

Number of voting
rights

% of voting rights ^x

Direct

Direct ^xi

Indirect ^xii

Direct

Indirect

Ordinary Shares

3,542,003

N/A

3.01%

N/A

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

N/A

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}

N/A

Nominal

Delta

N/A

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

3,542,003

3.01%

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

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:		N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:		N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:		N/A

13. Additional information:	N/A
14. Contact name:	Paul Marchard, General Counsel
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7494 6060

Note: Annex should only be submitted to the FSA not the issuer

ANNEX: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES^xxii

A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full Name (including legal form of legal entities)	YF Finance Limited
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	c/o Meridian Securities (UK) Limited 3rd Floor Broughton House 6-8 Sackville St London W1S 3DG
Phone number & email	020 7494 6060 paul.marchand@meridian-capital.net
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full Name (including legal form of legal entities)
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 th FSA website

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