Franklin Resources, Inc and Templeton Worldwide, Inc. notified Galp Energia that an aggregate shareholding exemption of 2.48% voting rights in the share capital of Galp Energia was granted to each of such companies by the Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission (CMVM), on 15 January 2013.
This announcement follows the disclosure made to the market and to the public in general, on 20 December 2012, that an indirect qualified shareholding was held by Franklin Resources, Inc., as of 27 November 2012, of 2.48% of the voting rights, corresponding to 20,598,627 shares in Galp Energia, through the subsidiaries listed below.
Source: Galp Energia, SGPS, S.A.