SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign
Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of April 2009
Commission File Number 1-13758
PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40
1069 - 300 Lisboa, Portugal
(Address of principal executive office)
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mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
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Announcement 22 April 2009, Lisbon
Qualified Holding
Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. (“PT”) informs that UBS AG now holds less than 2% of the voting rights corresponding to the share capital of PT.
Such new holding resulted from the disposal, on 15 April 2009, of a total of 1,100,000 PT ordinary shares through a transaction executed over the counter, made by UBS AG, Zurich and Basel, with offices at Bahnhofstrasse 45, P.O. Box, CH-8098 Zurich and Aeschenvorstadt 1, P.O. Box, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland.
As a result of such transaction, a total of 16,879,911 PT ordinary shares representing 1.88% of PT’s share capital and corresponding voting rights is now attributed to UBS AG.
UBS AG also informed that of such total holding, pursuant to article 20 of the Portuguese Securities Code:
> 3,912,216 shares representing 0.44% of the share capital and voting rights in PT are held in the name of UBS AG on behalf of several of its clients;
> 6,683,085 shares representing 0.75% of the share capital and voting rights in PT are held by the following subsidiaries of UBS AG:
- Caisse Centrale de Reescompte: 131,250 PT shares
- UBS (Luxembourg) S.A.: 1,173 PT shares;
- UBS Financial Services Inc.: 450,856 PT shares;
- UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG: 233,278 PT shares;
- UBS Fund Services (Luxembourg) SA: 714,688 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.: 41,158 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (Australia) Ltd: 4,234 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (Canada) Co: 1,693 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH: 33,517 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (France) SA: 1,993,489 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd: 2,321,198 PT shares;
- UBS Global Asset Management Life Ltd: 353,060 PT shares;
- UBS O’Connor LLC: 342,926 PT shares;
- UBS Securities LLC: 52,815 PT shares;
- UBS Wealth Management (UK) Ltd.: 7,750 PT shares.
This statement is pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 17 of the Portuguese Securities Code, following a communication received from UBS AG.
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Portugal Telecom, SGPS, SA Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40 1069-300 Lisbon Portugal www.telecom.pt
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Public company Share capital _ Euro 26,895,375 Registered in the Commercial Registry Office of Lisbon and Corporation no. _ 503 215 058 |
Portugal
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Nuno Vieira Investor Relations Director nuno.t.vieira@telecom.pt Tel.: +351 21 500 1701 Fax: +351 21 500 0800 http://ir.telecom.pt |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: April 22, 2009
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/s/ Nuno Vieira
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Nuno Vieira Investor Relations Director |
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