Sothic Capital Management LLP
UK short positions the FCA published under this name: 8 companies and 69 disclosures between 1 Nov 2012 and 19 May 2016. 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.
GULF KEYSTONE PETROLEUM LIMITED
closed 19 May 201610 disclosures · peak 0.82% · first 31 Jul 2015 · last 19 May 2016
31 Jul 2015 0.50% · 3 Aug 2015 0.61% · 13 Aug 2015 0.70% · 21 Aug 2015 0.82% · 1 Sep 2015 0.79% · 30 Oct 2015 0.80% · 3 Dec 2015 0.79% · 20 Jan 2016 0.69% · 5 Apr 2016 0.59% · 19 May 2016 0.49%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
ENQUEST PLC
closed 5 Aug 20153 disclosures · peak 0.61% · first 18 Mar 2015 · last 5 Aug 2015
18 Mar 2015 0.61% · 13 Apr 2015 0.57% · 5 Aug 2015 0.47%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
AFREN PLC
closed 22 Jun 201515 disclosures · peak 3.22% · first 21 Jan 2015 · last 22 Jun 2015
21 Jan 2015 0.54% · 22 Jan 2015 0.79% · 23 Jan 2015 1.22% · 26 Jan 2015 1.56% · 27 Jan 2015 2.55% · 2 Feb 2015 2.66% · 3 Feb 2015 2.75% · 13 Feb 2015 3.16% · 18 Feb 2015 3.22% · 15 Jun 2015 3.13% · 16 Jun 2015 2.88% · 17 Jun 2015 1.98% · 18 Jun 2015 1.62% · 19 Jun 2015 0.72% · 22 Jun 2015 0.43%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Petropavlovsk PLC
closed 31 Jul 20142 disclosures · peak 0.52% · first 27 Mar 2014 · last 31 Jul 2014
27 Mar 2014 0.52% · 31 Jul 2014 0.48%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
AQUARIUS PLATINUM LTD
closed 19 May 201418 disclosures · peak 2.82% · first 1 Nov 2012 · last 19 May 2014
1 Nov 2012 2.68% · 6 Nov 2012 2.76% · 14 Nov 2012 2.70% · 5 Dec 2012 2.82% · 14 Dec 2012 2.77% · 17 Dec 2012 2.46% · 18 Dec 2012 2.29% · 6 Feb 2013 2.09% · 7 Feb 2013 1.75% · 8 Feb 2013 1.77% · 12 Feb 2013 1.63% · 14 Feb 2013 1.16% · 2 May 2013 1.01% · 7 May 2013 0.95% · 8 May 2013 0.88% · 12 May 2014 0.68% · 15 May 2014 0.58% · 19 May 2014 0.48%
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 29 May 201316 disclosures · peak 2.15% · first 1 Nov 2012 · last 29 May 2013
1 Nov 2012 1.99% · 16 Nov 2012 2.04% · 19 Nov 2012 2.15% · 5 Dec 2012 2.00% · 6 Dec 2012 1.90% · 7 Feb 2013 1.76% · 8 Feb 2013 1.65% · 13 Feb 2013 1.58% · 13 Mar 2013 1.48% · 14 Mar 2013 1.26% · 15 Mar 2013 0.96% · 13 May 2013 0.89% · 16 May 2013 0.76% · 17 May 2013 0.69% · 21 May 2013 0.59% · 29 May 2013 0.46%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
PREMIER FOODS PLC
closed 20 Dec 20122 disclosures · peak 0.59% · first 1 Nov 2012 · last 20 Dec 2012
1 Nov 2012 0.59% · 20 Dec 2012 0.40%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Lonmin PLC
closed 19 Dec 20123 disclosures · peak 0.80% · first 1 Nov 2012 · last 19 Dec 2012
1 Nov 2012 0.80% · 11 Dec 2012 0.57% · 19 Dec 2012 0.29%
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 Sothic Capital Management LLP short?
- The FCA's named register recorded Sothic Capital Management LLP against 8 UK companies between 2012 and 2026, across 69 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 Sothic Capital Management LLP'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.