Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-029335
Chunk: 237

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 424B2
Chunk 237
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 by our U.S. counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. If stated in the prospectus supplement applicable to a specific issuance of debt securities, contingent capital
securities or ordinary shares (including the ordinary shares into which such contingent capital securities may under certain circumstances convert), the validity of such securities under English law may be passed upon by our English solicitors,
Clifford Chance LLP. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP may rely on the opinion of Clifford Chance LLP as to all matters of English law and Clifford Chance LLP may rely on the opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as to
all matters of New York law. If this prospectus is delivered in connection with an underwritten offering, the validity of the debt securities, contingent capital securities or ordinary shares (including the ordinary shares into which such contingent
capital securities may under certain circumstances convert) may be passed upon for the underwriters by United States and English counsel for the underwriters specified in the related prospectus supplement.

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EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of Barclays PLC as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, and for each of the years in
the three-year period ended December 31, 2023, and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, have been incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the
report of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, which report appears in the Annual Report on Form 20-F of Barclays PLC for the year ended December 31, 2023, incorporated by reference
herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

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EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION The following is a statement of the expenses (all of which are estimated), other than any underwriting discounts and commission and expenses reimbursed by us, to be incurred in connection with a distribution of an assumed amount of $1,000,000,000 of securities registered under this registration statement:

| Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee |     | $ | 147,600 | -1 |
| Printing expenses                                   |     |   |  30,000 |    |
| Legal fees and expenses                             |     |   | 150,000 |    |
| Accountants’ fees and expenses                      |     |   |  50,000 |    |
| Trustee fees and expenses