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)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form

20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F       X      Form 40-F             

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this
Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

Yes              No        X      

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Announcement 08 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 31 March 2009, of a total of 2,500,000 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 17,710,979 PT ordinary shares representing 1.98% 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:

 

>            3,966,510 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;

 

>            7,963,129 shares representing 0.89% of the share capital and voting rights in PT are held by the following subsidiaries of UBS AG:

 

-     Caisse Centrale de Reescompte: 105,000 PT shares

-     DSI International Management Inc: 1,130 PT shares;

-     UBS (Luxembourg) S.A.: 1,173 PT shares;

-     UBS Financial Services Inc.: 452,304 PT shares;

-     UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG: 165,405 PT shares;

-     UBS Fund Services (Luxembourg) SA: 1,882,037 PT shares;

-     UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc.: 95,797 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: 2,240,025 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: 232,975 PT shares;

-     UBS Securities LLC: 65,831 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portugal Telecom, SGPS, SA

Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40

1069-300 Lisbon

Portugal

www.telecom.pt

 

Public company

Share capital _ Euro 26,895,375

Registered in the Commercial
Registry Office of Lisbon

and Corporation no. _ 503 215 058

Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchange. Information may be accessed on the Reuters under the symbols PTC.LS and PT and on Bloomberg under the symbol PTC PL.

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 8, 2009

 

 

 

PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Nuno Vieira

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nuno Vieira

 

 

Investor Relations Director

 

 

 

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

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