ATLAS Mara Limited - Notification of Major Interest in Shares

TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS--(Marketwired - May 1, 2015) - ATLAS Mara Limited (LSE: ATMA)

LSE: ATMA

TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Atlas Mara Limited
2. Reason for the notification (yes/no)
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):		No
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:	Wellington Management Group LLP
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):	BNY Mellon Nominees Limited Goldman Sachs International JP Morgan Chase Nominees Limited Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd. ROY Nominees Limited State Street Nominees Limited
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	30 April 2015
6. Date on which issuer notified:	1 May 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	10%

8. Notified Details

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares If possible use 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

Percentage of voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

VGG0697K10666 Ordinary Shares

6,587,256

6,587,256

6,543,358

6,543,358

9.24%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument		Expiration date		Exercise/ conversion period		No. of voting rights that may be acquired (if the instrument is exercised/converted)		Percentage of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument

Exercise Price

Expiration date

Exercise/ conversion period

No. of voting rights instrument refers to

Percentage of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Warrant

11.50

17 December 2017

26 August 2014 to 17 December 2017

519,038

0.73

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
7,062,396 (6,543,358 Ordinary Shares and 3,257,226 Warrants or 7,062,396 votes on a converted basis)		9.98%

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

Wellington Management Company LLP is an investment management entity that manages the assets of certain funds and/or managed accounts and the assets under its management include: 6,543,358 of interests described in Box 8A of this notification and 519,038 of interest in Box 8C Wellington Management Company LLP is a direct controlled undertaking of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, which, in turn, is a direct controlled undertaking of Wellington Group Holdings LLP, which, in turn, is a direct controlled undertaking of Wellington Management Group LLP .

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

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name:		Mark O'Brien
15. Contact telephone number:		44-20-7126-6310