Melqart Asset Management (UK) Ltd
UK short positions the FCA published under this name: 12 companies and 130 disclosures between 27 Sep 2016 and 31 Mar 2023. Each figure is that position as a percentage of the company's issued share capital, not a money value, and percentages are not comparable or summable across companies.
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Positions open when the register closed
No position was still open in the register's final snapshot of 10 Jul 2026: every chain below had already fallen back below the 0.5% publication threshold.
Full disclosure history
Every disclosure the archive holds, grouped by company and ordered oldest first within each chain. A chain begins when the position first crossed 0.5% and ends either at the freeze or at the last disclosure before it fell back below the threshold.
EMIS GROUP PLC
closed 31 Mar 20235 disclosures · peak 0.80% · first 10 Mar 2023 · last 31 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 0.55% · 22 Mar 2023 0.28% · 24 Mar 2023 0.69% · 30 Mar 2023 0.80% · 31 Mar 2023 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
closed 15 Sep 20212 disclosures · peak 0.54% · first 23 Aug 2021 · last 15 Sep 2021
23 Aug 2021 0.54% · 15 Sep 2021 0.48%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Premier Oil PLC
closed 1 Apr 202143 disclosures · peak 5.53% · first 20 Sep 2019 · last 1 Apr 2021
20 Sep 2019 0.51% · (19 further disclosures) · 2 Feb 2021 2.53% · 4 Feb 2021 2.63% · 8 Feb 2021 2.71% · 10 Feb 2021 2.81% · 12 Feb 2021 2.92% · 17 Feb 2021 3.03% · 19 Feb 2021 3.14% · 23 Feb 2021 3.14% · 26 Feb 2021 3.47% · 1 Mar 2021 3.58% · 2 Mar 2021 3.64% · 4 Mar 2021 3.94% · 8 Mar 2021 4.09% · 9 Mar 2021 4.21% · 11 Mar 2021 4.32% · 12 Mar 2021 4.50% · 15 Mar 2021 4.60% · 16 Mar 2021 4.92% · 17 Mar 2021 5.13% · 18 Mar 2021 5.32% · 22 Mar 2021 5.47% · 29 Mar 2021 5.53% · 1 Apr 2021 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
AA Plc
closed 25 Nov 202010 disclosures · peak 1.31% · first 19 Oct 2020 · last 25 Nov 2020
19 Oct 2020 0.56% · 21 Oct 2020 0.60% · 23 Oct 2020 0.70% · 27 Oct 2020 0.80% · 29 Oct 2020 0.91% · 3 Nov 2020 1.00% · 9 Nov 2020 1.14% · 10 Nov 2020 1.21% · 12 Nov 2020 1.31% · 25 Nov 2020 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
JUPITER FUND MANAGEMENT PLC
closed 13 Oct 202022 disclosures · peak 1.45% · first 24 Jul 2018 · last 13 Oct 2020
24 Jul 2018 0.50% · 8 Aug 2018 0.62% · 28 Aug 2018 0.70% · 5 Oct 2018 0.80% · 30 Oct 2018 0.90% · 30 Nov 2018 1.01% · 18 Dec 2018 1.14% · 21 Dec 2018 1.21% · 1 Mar 2019 1.31% · 18 Apr 2019 1.45% · 3 Jun 2019 1.36% · 4 Oct 2019 1.27% · 7 Oct 2019 1.18% · 14 Oct 2019 1.09% · 22 Oct 2019 0.96% · 6 Jan 2020 1.01% · 13 Mar 2020 0.98% · 18 Mar 2020 0.81% · 25 Mar 2020 0.76% · 9 Apr 2020 0.65% · 14 Apr 2020 0.52% · 13 Oct 2020 0.03%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Tui AG
closed 17 Sep 20202 disclosures · peak 0.63% · first 29 May 2020 · last 17 Sep 2020
29 May 2020 0.50% · 17 Sep 2020 0.63%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Intu Properties PLC
closed 10 Feb 20204 disclosures · peak 0.71% · first 13 Aug 2019 · last 10 Feb 2020
13 Aug 2019 0.52% · 30 Oct 2019 0.71% · 7 Feb 2020 0.67% · 10 Feb 2020 0.43%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Thomas Cook Group PLC
closed 16 Sep 20196 disclosures · peak 1.00% · first 1 Aug 2019 · last 16 Sep 2019
1 Aug 2019 0.52% · 7 Aug 2019 0.60% · 30 Aug 2019 0.70% · 6 Sep 2019 0.81% · 11 Sep 2019 0.90% · 16 Sep 2019 1.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
VIRGIN MONEY UK PLC
closed 16 Oct 20185 disclosures · peak 0.82% · first 31 Jul 2018 · last 16 Oct 2018
31 Jul 2018 0.50% · 2 Aug 2018 0.65% · 7 Aug 2018 0.70% · 4 Sep 2018 0.82% · 16 Oct 2018 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC
closed 20 Apr 201813 disclosures · peak 2.12% · first 19 Mar 2018 · last 20 Apr 2018
19 Mar 2018 0.64% · 20 Mar 2018 0.94% · 21 Mar 2018 1.03% · 28 Mar 2018 1.19% · 29 Mar 2018 1.23% · 3 Apr 2018 1.32% · 5 Apr 2018 1.49% · 6 Apr 2018 1.51% · 10 Apr 2018 1.64% · 11 Apr 2018 1.77% · 13 Apr 2018 1.83% · 17 Apr 2018 2.12% · 20 Apr 2018 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Entain PLC
closed 29 Mar 201816 disclosures · peak 1.92% · first 12 Jan 2018 · last 29 Mar 2018
12 Jan 2018 0.50% · 16 Jan 2018 0.82% · 22 Jan 2018 1.08% · 23 Jan 2018 1.11% · 25 Jan 2018 1.24% · 26 Jan 2018 1.17% · 6 Feb 2018 1.22% · 8 Mar 2018 1.05% · 13 Mar 2018 1.10% · 15 Mar 2018 1.29% · 16 Mar 2018 1.34% · 19 Mar 2018 1.48% · 21 Mar 2018 1.72% · 23 Mar 2018 1.92% · 26 Mar 2018 1.89% · 29 Mar 2018 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Ladbrokes Coral Group PLC
closed 1 Nov 20162 disclosures · peak 0.65% · first 27 Sep 2016 · last 1 Nov 2016
27 Sep 2016 0.65% · 1 Nov 2016 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Frequently asked questions
- Which UK companies did Melqart Asset Management (UK) Ltd short?
- The FCA's named register recorded Melqart Asset Management (UK) Ltd against 12 UK companies between 2016 and 2026, across 130 disclosures. No position was still open when the register closed on 10 Jul 2026.
- Is this list current?
- No. It is a frozen archive. The FCA stopped publishing position-holder names on 13 July 2026 and now publishes one anonymous aggregate per company per day, so no new named UK disclosure exists after 10 Jul 2026. Today's UK figures are on each company's own page.
- Was this the whole of Melqart Asset Management (UK) Ltd's UK short book?
- No. Only net short positions of 0.5% or more of a company's issued share capital were published with the holder's name. Smaller positions were reported to the FCA privately and never appeared in the register, so the archive is a floor, not a full book.
Source: the Financial Conduct Authority's daily short positions file, captured on 10 Jul 2026 from fca.org.uk and archived unchanged. Figures are as the FCA published them; this site is not affiliated with the FCA. Nothing here is investment advice.