Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • May 21, 2024
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt as to what action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial advice from your stockbroker or other independent adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
If you have recently sold or transferred all of your ordinary shares in Asian Energy Impact Trust plc (the "Company"), please forward this document, but not any accompanying personalised Form of Proxy, as soon as possible either to the purchaser or transferee or to the person who arranged the sale or transfer so they can pass this document to the person who now holds the shares.
(Incorporated in England & Wales with company number 13605841 and registered as an investment company under section 833 of the Companies Act 2006)
The Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at the offices of Stephenson Harwood LLP, 1 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7SH on Friday, 14 June 2024 at 10.30 a.m. is set out at the end of this document.
To be valid, Forms of Proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting must be completed and returned in accordance with the instructions printed thereon to the office of the Company's Registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY or delivered by hand (during office hours only) to the same address as soon as possible and in any event so as to arrive by no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024. Alternatively, you may register your proxy appointment electronically by visiting Computershare's website (www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy). Electronic proxy appointments must also be lodged no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024. Appointment of a proxy does not preclude you from attending the meeting and voting in person.
(Incorporated in England & Wales with company number 13605841 and registered as an investment company under section 833 of the Companies Act 2006)
Sue Inglis (Non-executive Chair) Clifford Tompsett (Non-executive Director) Mukesh Rajani (Non-executive Director)
The Scalpel 18th Floor 52 Lime Street London EC3M 7AF
21 May 2024
Dear Shareholder
I am pleased to be writing to you with details of our 2024 annual general meeting (the "AGM" or "Annual General Meeting") which we are holding at the offices of Stephenson Harwood LLP, 1 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7SH on Friday, 14 June 2024 at 10.30 a.m. The formal notice of the AGM is set out on pages 5 to 8 of this document.
The Company's annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 (the "2023 Annual Report and Accounts") are available to view and download from the Company's website, www.asianenergyimpact.com.
Shareholders will be aware that the Company has convened a general meeting to be held immediately following the conclusion of the AGM at which a special resolution will be proposed to place the Company into members' voluntary liquidation. For that reason, the business to be conducted at the AGM will be limited to those matters which are required under the Companies Act 2006 (the "Companies Act") or the Company's articles of association to be put to shareholders at the AGM. Explanatory notes on all the business to be considered at this year's AGM are set out below.
The Board intends that the AGM will be held in person. If you decide not to attend the AGM in person, it is important that you do still cast your votes in respect of the business of the meeting and you can do so by voting by proxy in accordance with the instructions set out below under the heading 'Action to be taken in respect of the Annual General Meeting'.
The results of the AGM will be announced through a Regulatory Information Service and on the Company's website, www.asianenergyimpact.com, as soon as possible once known.
The following notes explain the proposed resolutions. Each of Resolutions 1 to 7 is being proposed as an ordinary resolution. This means that, for each of those resolutions to be passed, more than half of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.
The Directors are required to present to shareholders at the AGM the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts together with the Directors' and auditor's reports on the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts.
Shareholders will be asked to receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2023. The Directors' Remuneration Report is set out in full on pages 73 to 75 of the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts. The Directors' remuneration policy, which may be found on page 73 of the 2023 Annual Report and Accounts, sets out the Company's policy on Directors' remuneration.
The Board considers that appropriate remuneration plays a vital part in helping to achieve the Company's overall objectives and, accordingly and in compliance with the Companies Act, shareholders will be invited to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report. The vote on the Directors' Remuneration Report is advisory in nature in that payments made or promised to Directors will not have to be repaid, reduced or withheld in the event that this resolution is not passed.
The Company is required at each general meeting at which accounts are presented to appoint the auditor to hold office until the next such meeting. Deloitte LLP has indicated its willingness to continue in office. Accordingly, resolution 3 proposes the reappointment of Deloitte LLP as auditor to the Company and resolution 4 authorises the Board to fix the auditor's remuneration.
In accordance with the Company's articles of association, all Directors are subject to annual re-election and, accordingly, Sue Inglis, Clifford Tompsett and Mukesh Rajani will stand for re-election at the AGM.
Shareholders will find enclosed with this document a personalised Form of Proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting.
Shareholders are asked to complete and return the Form of Proxy, in accordance with the instructions printed thereon, to the Company's Registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY so as to be received as soon as possible and, in any event, by no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024. Alternatively, you may register your proxy appointment electronically by visiting Computershare's website (www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy). Electronic proxy appointments must also be lodged no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.
Shareholders are requested to complete and return a Form of Proxy whether or not they wish to attend the Annual General Meeting. The return of a Form of Proxy will not prevent shareholders from attending the Annual General Meeting and voting in person should they so wish.
The Directors unanimously recommend shareholders vote in favour of the resolutions to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting. The Directors intend to vote in favour of the resolutions in respect of their holdings of ordinary shares, amounting to 131,000 ordinary shares in aggregate (representing approximately 0.07 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company as at the date of this document).
Yours faithfully
Sue Inglis Chair
(Incorporated in England & Wales with company number 13605841 and registered as an investment company under section 833 of the Companies Act 2006)
Notice is hereby given that the 2024 Annual General Meeting of Asian Energy Impact Trust plc will be held at the offices of Stephenson Harwood LLP, 1 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7SH on Friday, 14 June 2024 at 10.30 a.m. to transact the business set out in Resolutions 1 to 7 below.
Ordinary resolutions 1 to 7 require more than 50 per cent. of the votes cast to be in favour in order for the resolutions to be passed.
Registered Office:
The Scalpel 18th Floor 52 Lime Street London EC3M 7AF
JTC (UK) Limited Company Secretary
21 May 2024
Only those shareholders registered in the Company's register of members at:
Information regarding the meeting, including the information required by section 311A of the Companies Act, can be found at www.asianenergyimpact.com.
A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the above Notice is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to exercise all or any of the rights of the member to attend and speak and vote in his/her place at the AGM. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
To be valid the form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified or office copy of the same, must be completed and returned in accordance with the instructions printed thereon to the office of the Company's Registrar at The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY or delivered by hand (during office hours) to the same address as soon as possible and in any event so as to arrive by not later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.
If you are not a member of the Company but you have been nominated by a member of the Company to enjoy information rights, you do not have a right to appoint any proxies under the procedures set out in this "Appointment of proxies" section. Please read the section "Nominated persons" below.
You may appoint more than one proxy provided each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. To appoint more than one proxy, you may photocopy the form of proxy enclosed with this Notice of AGM or alternatively, please contact the Company's Registrar Computershare Investor Services PLC on 0370 707 1581 with a view to obtaining a duplicate form. You will need to state clearly on each proxy form the number of shares in relation to which the proxy is appointed. Failure to specify the number of shares to which each proxy appointment relates or specifying a number in excess of those held by the shareholder will result in the proxy appointment being invalid. If you wish your proxy to speak on your behalf at the meeting, you will need to appoint your own choice of proxy (not the Chair) and give your instructions directly to them. All forms must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope.
If you have not received a proxy form and believe that you should have one, or if you require additional proxy forms, please contact Computershare Investor Services PLC on 0370 707 1581.
As an alternative to completing the hard-copy proxy form, you can appoint a proxy electronically by visiting www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy. You will be asked to enter the Control Number, the Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) and PIN and agree to certain terms and conditions. These details can be found on the form of proxy. For an electronic proxy appointment to be valid, Computershare Investor Services PLC must receive your appointment no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.
In the case of joint holders, where more than one of the joint holders completes a proxy appointment, only the appointment submitted by the most senior holder will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders appear in the Company's register of members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).
Shareholders may change proxy instructions by submitting a new proxy appointment using the methods set out above. Note that the cut-off time for receipt of proxy appointments also apply in relation to amended instructions; any amended proxy appointment received after the relevant cut-off time will be disregarded.
CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the meeting and any adjournment(s) of it by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual (available via www.euroclear.com). CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a voting service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
For a proxy appointment or instructions made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a CREST Proxy Instruction) must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & International Ltd's (Euroclear) specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or is an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy, must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent (ID number 3RA50) no later than the deadline specified above. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time, any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee through other means.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers should note that Euroclear does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular message. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member, or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to procure that their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.
A shareholder may change a proxy instruction but to do so you will need to inform the Company in writing by sending a signed hard copy notice clearly stating your intention to revoke your proxy appointment to Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY. In the case of a shareholder which is a company, the revocation notice must be executed under its common seal or signed on its behalf by an officer of the company or an attorney for the company. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the revocation notice is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included with the revocation notice.
Computershare Investor Services PLC must receive the revocation notice no later than 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.
If you attempt to revoke your proxy appointment but the revocation is received after the time specified, your original proxy appointment will remain valid unless you attend the meeting and vote in person.
Appointment of a proxy does not preclude you from attending the meeting and voting in person. If you have appointed a proxy and attend the AGM in person, your proxy appointment will automatically be terminated.
A corporation which is a shareholder can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise, on its behalf, all its powers as a shareholder provided that no more than one corporate representative exercises powers over the same share.
If you are a person who has been nominated under section 146 of the Companies Act to enjoy information rights:
You may have a right under an agreement between you and the shareholder of the Company who has nominated you to have information rights (the "Relevant Shareholder") to be appointed or to have someone else appointed as a proxy for the meeting.
If you either do not have such a right or if you have such a right but do not wish to exercise it, you may have a right under an agreement between you and the Relevant Shareholder to give instructions to the Relevant Shareholder as to the exercise of voting rights.
Your main point of contact in terms of your investment in the Company remains the Relevant Shareholder (or, perhaps, your custodian or broker) and you should continue to contact them (and not the Company) regarding any changes or queries relating to your personal details and your interest in the Company (including any administrative matters). The only exception to this is where the Company expressly requests a response from you.
The rights relating to proxies set out above do not apply directly to nominated persons.
A vote withheld is not a vote in law, which means that the vote will not be counted in the calculation of votes for or against the resolution. If no voting indication is given, your proxy will vote or abstain from voting at his or her discretion. Your proxy will vote (or abstain from voting) as he or she thinks fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the meeting.
As at close of business on 20 May 2024, which is the latest practicable date before publication of this Notice of AGM, the Company's issued share capital comprised 175,684,705 ordinary shares of US\$0.01 each. Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote at a general meeting of the Company and, therefore, the total number of voting rights on that date is 175,684,705. No shares are held in treasury.
The Company's website will include information on the number of shares and voting rights.
Any member attending the meeting has the right to ask questions. The Company must answer any question you ask relating to the business being dealt with at the meeting unless:
Copies of the letters of appointment of the non-executive directors are available for inspection at the Company's registered office during normal business hours and at the place of the meeting from at least 15 minutes prior to the meeting until the end of the meeting.
Voting on all resolutions will be conducted by way of a poll. As soon as practicable following the meeting, the results of the voting will be announced via a regulatory information service and also placed on the Company's website.
Except as provided above, shareholders who have general queries about the meeting should telephone Computershare Investor Services PLC on 0370 707 1581. Calls are charged at the standard geographic rate and will vary by provider. Calls outside the United Kingdom will be charged at the applicable international rate. Computershare Investor Services PLC are open between 09:00 - 17:30, Monday to Friday excluding public holidays in England and Wales. No other methods of communication will be accepted.
You may not use any electronic address provided in this Notice of AGM, or in any related documents, for communicating with the Company for the purposes other than those expressly stated.
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