Optiver’s Hugo Boss Voting-Rights Position Reaches 20.27%

Optiver Holding B.V.’s reported voting-rights position in Hugo Boss AG stood at 20.27% as of Oct. 12, up from 16.72% in its previous notification. Most of the position came through financial instruments rather than ordinary shares.

The announcement was disseminated Oct. 13 at 9:34 a.m. ET (13:34 UTC) and reported 69,016,167 total voting rights under Section 41 of Germany’s Securities Trading Act, known as the WpHG.

Voting rights attached to shares totaled 72,587, or 0.11%, and were held indirectly. Financial instruments accounted for the remaining 20.17% of the reported voting-rights position.

Call options represented 5,958,400 voting rights, or 8.63%. The options expire between December 2026 and June 2028 and can be exercised at any time.

Instruments covered by Section 38(1) No. 2 of the WpHG represented another 7,961,100 voting rights, or 11.54%. That total included physical-settlement put options tied to 7,824,500 voting rights, or 11.34%, expiring between October 2026 and December 2028.

Cash-settled futures accounted for 136,600 voting rights, or 0.20%, with expirations in October 2026.

Optiver V.O.F. appeared in the controlled-undertaking chain, with 20.17% attributed through instruments and 20.27% in total voting rights. The filing was made under Article 40, Section 1 of the WpHG, which governs major-holdings notifications.

The securities covered were Hugo Boss AG ordinary shares with ISIN DE000A1PHFF7. Hugo Boss AG’s registered office is in Metzingen, Germany.