Form 8.5 (EPT/RI) - Intertek Group plc

RNS Number : 2516G

Morgan Stanley & Co. Int'l plc

29 May 2026

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:	Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates: Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree	Intertek Group plc
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:	EQT Fund Management S.a.r.l.
(d) Date dealing undertaken:	28 May 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 this offer? If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"	N/A

2. DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

(a) Purchases and sales

Class of relevant security	Purchases/ sales	Total number of securities	Highest price per unit paid/received	Lowest price per unit paid/received
1p ordinary	PURCHASES	619,648	54.2000 GBP	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	SALES	574,622	54.2000 GBP	53.6500 GBP
1p ordinary	SALES	2,036	72.2905 USD	72.2593 USD

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. CFD	Nature of dealing e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position	Number of reference securities	Price per unit
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,644	53.7127 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	683	53.7977 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,029	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	120	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	64	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	4,541	53.8200 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,250	53.8220 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	4,778	53.8852 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	500	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	744	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	6	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,655	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	28,000	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	521	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,734	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,505	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	1,840	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,307	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	644	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	33	53.7500 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	152	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	91	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	36	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	822	53.7537 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	100	53.7537 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	60	53.7617 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5	53.7629 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	3,934	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	63	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	735	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	315	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	17	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	21	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	105	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	508	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	6	53.8001 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	28	53.8002 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8075 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	21	53.8087 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	42	53.8195 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	1,282	53.8240 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,000	53.8269 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,000	53.8408 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	511	53.8527 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	8,182	53.8529 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,980	53.8597 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	290	53.8740 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	85	53.9028 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	185	54.0043 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	307	54.0074 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	4,606	54.0970 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	4,062	54.1075 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,031	54.1767 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	438	54.2000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	336	53.7217 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	362	53.7779 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	325	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	104	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	620	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	14,029	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	415	53.8006 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	136	53.8006 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	90	53.8009 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	1,282	53.8123 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	318	53.8529 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	1,653	53.8597 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	590	53.9433 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	218	53.6638 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	780	53.7081 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	459	53.7087 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	742	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	3,800	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	4,058	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1	53.7900 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	720	53.7962 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	729	53.7989 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	87	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	16	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	11,839	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	438	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	183	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2,877	53.8157 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1,175	53.8164 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	8,258	53.8169 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	257	53.8174 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	678	53.8191 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	3,388	53.8236 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	7,928	53.8481 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	137	53.8500 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	6	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	10	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	125	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	6	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	10	53.9000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2,032	53.9343 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1,296	72.2593 USD

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security

Product description e.g. call option

Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.

Number of securities to which option relates

Exercise price per unit

Type

e.g. American, European etc.

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit

N/A

(ii) Exercise

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

N/A

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

Class of relevant security

Nature of dealing

e.g. subscription, conversion

Details

Price per unit (if applicable)

N/A

3. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealing 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:

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

NONE

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

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to:

(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or

(ii) the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

NONE

Date of disclosure:	29 May 2026
Contact name:	Claire Gordon
Telephone number:	+44 141 245-8893

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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RNS Number : 2516G

Morgan Stanley & Co. Int'l plc

29 May 2026

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the "Code")

1. KEY INFORMATION

(a) Name of exempt principal trader:	Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
(b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates: Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree	Intertek Group plc
(c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:	EQT Fund Management S.a.r.l.
(d) Date dealing undertaken:	28 May 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 this offer? If it is a cash offer or possible cash offer, state "N/A"	N/A

2. DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

(a) Purchases and sales

Class of relevant security	Purchases/ sales	Total number of securities	Highest price per unit paid/received	Lowest price per unit paid/received
1p ordinary	PURCHASES	619,648	54.2000 GBP	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	SALES	574,622	54.2000 GBP	53.6500 GBP
1p ordinary	SALES	2,036	72.2905 USD	72.2593 USD

(b) Cash-settled derivative transactions

Class of relevant security	Product description e.g. CFD	Nature of dealing e.g. opening/closing a long/short position, increasing/reducing a long/short position	Number of reference securities	Price per unit
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,644	53.7127 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	683	53.7977 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,029	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	120	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	64	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	4,541	53.8200 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	1,250	53.8220 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a long position	4,778	53.8852 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	500	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	744	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	6	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,655	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	28,000	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	521	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,734	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,505	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	1,840	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,307	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	644	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	33	53.7500 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	152	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	91	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	36	53.7515 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	822	53.7537 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	100	53.7537 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	60	53.7617 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5	53.7629 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	3,934	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	63	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	735	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	315	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	17	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	21	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	105	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	508	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	6	53.8001 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	28	53.8002 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2	53.8075 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	21	53.8087 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	42	53.8195 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	1,282	53.8240 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,000	53.8269 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	5,000	53.8408 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	511	53.8527 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	8,182	53.8529 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,980	53.8597 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	290	53.8740 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	85	53.9028 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	185	54.0043 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	307	54.0074 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	4,606	54.0970 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	4,062	54.1075 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	2,031	54.1767 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	increasing a short position	438	54.2000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	336	53.7217 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	362	53.7779 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	325	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	104	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	620	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	14,029	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	415	53.8006 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	136	53.8006 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	90	53.8009 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	1,282	53.8123 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	318	53.8529 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	1,653	53.8597 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a long position	590	53.9433 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	218	53.6638 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2	53.7000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	780	53.7081 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	459	53.7087 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	742	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	3,800	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	4,058	53.7731 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1	53.7900 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	720	53.7962 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	729	53.7989 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	87	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	16	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	11,839	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	438	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	183	53.8000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2,877	53.8157 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1,175	53.8164 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	8,258	53.8169 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	257	53.8174 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	678	53.8191 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	3,388	53.8236 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	7,928	53.8481 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	137	53.8500 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	6	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	10	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	125	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	6	53.8702 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	10	53.9000 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	2,032	53.9343 GBP
1p ordinary	CFD	reducing a short position	1,296	72.2593 USD

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Class of relevant security

Product description e.g. call option

Writing, purchasing, selling, varying etc.

Number of securities to which option relates

Exercise price per unit

Type

e.g. American, European etc.

Expiry date

Option money paid/ received per unit

N/A

(ii) Exercise

Class of relevant security

Product description

e.g. call option

Exercising/ exercised against

Number of securities

Exercise price per unit

N/A

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

Class of relevant security

Nature of dealing

e.g. subscription, conversion

Details

Price per unit (if applicable)

N/A

3. OTHER INFORMATION

(a) Indemnity and other dealing arrangements

Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent should not be included. If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

NONE

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

Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to:

(i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or

(ii) the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative is referenced:

If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none"

NONE

Date of disclosure:	29 May 2026
Contact name:	Claire Gordon
Telephone number:	+44 141 245-8893

Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service.

The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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Date	29 May 2026
Time	10:31:23
Category	Holding(s) in company
ID	2516G

Date	29 May 2026
Time	10:31:23
Category	Holding(s) in company
ID	2516G

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