Ascential PLC has announced that The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has acquired voting rights in the company. The acquisition was notified on May 8, 2024, with a resulting total of 2.081787% of voting rights attached to shares, and 9280484 total number of voting rights held in the issuer. This represents a decrease from the previous notification, where the total voting rights were at 3.260324%.

The details of the acquisition show that The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. holds 1.531439% of direct voting rights and 0.550348% of voting rights through financial instruments. The financial instruments include securities lending with an expiration date of open and 2453418 voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.

The notification also provides information on the chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, starting with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. as the ultimate controlling person.

The notification concludes with a general email contact for position enquiries and was completed on May 10, 2024.

Please note that the total amount of voting rights has been rounded to 6 decimal places, and there is a possibility of a rounding error.