ATLAS Mara Limited Announces Notification of Major Interest in Shares

TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS--(Marketwired - Mar 30, 2015) - ATLAS Mara Limited (LSE: ATMA)

LSE: ATMA

  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	Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Ltd

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights					Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached					No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments					No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights					No
Other (please specify):					N/A
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii		Janus Capital Management LLC
4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):iv
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v		26 March 2015
6. Date on which issuer notified:		27 March 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii		11%

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
VGG0697K1066	6,984,517	6,984,517	7,479,841	7,479,841		11.15%

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
Warrants VGG0697K1140	17/12/2017		401,726	0.56%

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
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights								Percentage of voting rights
7,881,567								11.15%

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

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:		Janus Capital Management LLC
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:
14. Contact name:	Chad Bergman
15. Contact telephone number:	303.336.7499

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