AGM Information • Apr 1, 2011
AGM Information
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The board of directors of Telenet Group Holding NV invites the holders of securities issued by the company to the annual and an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of the company. The annual general shareholders' meeting will be shortly adjourned in order to be continued as an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting before Notary Public.
Date, time and location: The annual and extraordinary general shareholders' meeting will be held on April 27, 2011 at 3.00 p.m. at the registered office of the company or at any other place which will be indicated there. There is no quorum requirement for the annual general shareholders' meeting. There is however a quorum requirement for the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting (see also under "Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting"). If the quorum for the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting would not be obtained, a second extraordinary general shareholders' meeting will be held on May 25, 2011 at 3.00 p.m. at the same location as the first meeting, unless indicated otherwise.
Doors open: In order to facilitate an expedient registration, the participants to the annual and extraordinary general shareholders' meeting are requested to be present at least half an hour prior to the commencement of the meeting.
Agenda and proposed resolutions: The agenda and proposed resolutions for the annual general shareholders' meeting, which, as the case may be, can be amended at the meeting by the Chairman of the board of directors, are as follows:
Communication of and discussion on the annual report of the board of directors and the report of the statutory auditor on the statutory financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Communication and approval of the statutory financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, and of the proposed allocation of the result.
Proposed resolution: approval of the statutory financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, including the allocation of the result as proposed by the board of directors.
Communication of and discussion on the annual report of the board of directors and the report of the statutory auditor on the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Communication of and discussion on the remuneration report, included in the annual report of the board of directors for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Proposed resolution: approval of the remuneration report for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Communication of and discussion on the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Proposed resolution: to grant discharge from liability to the directors who were in office during the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010, for the exercise of their mandate during said fiscal year.
Proposed resolution: to grant discharge from liability to the statutory auditor for the exercise of his mandate during the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2010.
Taking into account the advice of the nomination committee of the board of directors of the company, the board of directors recommends adopting the following resolutions, upon nomination as stated in the articles of association of the company. Fur further information in relation to the parties involved and their resume, reference is made to the declaration on corporate governance in the annual report of the board of directors.
(b) Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the articles of association, of Mr. Jim Ryan, for a term of 4 years, with immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2015.
(c) Re-appointment, upon nomination in accordance with Article 18.1(ii) of the articles of association, of Mr. Manuel Kohnstamm, for a term of 4 years, with immediate effect and until the closing of the general shareholders' meeting of 2015.
Proposed resolution:
The board of directors of the Company recommends to re-appoint Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler – Bedrijfsrevisoren CVBA, abbreviated as KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren CVBA, a civil company that has the form of a cooperative company with limited liability under Belgian law, represented by Mr. Jos Briers and Mr. Götwin Jackers, as statutory auditor of the company for a term of three years which will end immediately after the closing of the annual shareholders' meeting which will have deliberated and voted on the (statutory and consolidated) financial statements for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2013. The remuneration for the exercise of the mandate of statutory auditor is determined at € 530,950 per annum (excluding VAT).
Taking into account the Act of April 6, 2010 on the reinforcement of corporate governance in listed companies and autonomous public undertakings and on the modification of the professional prohibitions in the banking and financial sector", and taking into account the advice of the remuneration committee of the board of directors of the company, the board of directors recommends to adopt the following resolution. For further information relating to the remuneration of the members of the board of directors, the executive management and others, reference is made to the remuneration report in the annual report of the board of directors.
The general shareholders' meeting approves the following relating to the remuneration of the members of the board of directors, the CEO and the other members of the executive management:
been granted to the CEO of the company in the past (under the Specific Stock Option Plan 2010-2014) vest.
Quorum: There is no quorum requirement in relation to the deliberation and voting on the respective items mentioned in the agenda of the annual general shareholders' meeting.
Voting: Subject to the applicable legislation, each share entitles to one vote. In accordance with Article 537 of the Belgian Company Code, the holders of warrants issued by the company have the right to attend the general shareholders' meeting, yet with advisory vote only.
Agenda and proposed resolutions: The agenda and proposed resolutions for the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting, which, as the case may be, can be amended at the meeting by the Chairman of the board of directors, are as follows:
Proposed resolution: decision to decrease the company's share capital with an amount definitively to be determined by the general shareholders' meeting, upon proposal of the board of directors, equal to the product of the number of outstanding and existing shares at the date of the extraordinary shareholders' meeting resolving upon the capital decrease and four euro fifty eurocents (€4.50) (such amount of four euro fifty eurocents hereinafter referred to as the "Benefit") as a result of which the company's share capital shall be reduced by an amount definitively to be decided upon by the general meeting, upon proposal of the board of directors, as mentioned above, without a decrease in the number of shares.
The purpose of this capital decrease is to, subject to the conditions of Articles 612 and 613 of the Belgian Company Code, repay in cash a part of the share capital to the shareholders, more in particular to each share an amount equal to the Benefit (without distinction between ordinary "Shares", the "Golden Shares" and the "Liquidation Dispreference Shares", as defined in the articles of association of the company). The capital decrease will not result in the cancellation of existing shares of the company, each share of the company will participate to the same extent in the capital decrease and each share of the company will represent after the capital decrease the same fraction of the new share capital of the company.
From a tax perspective, the decrease will only be charged to the capital effectively paid up.
The board of directors is authorised to determine the procedure and formalities, the ex-dividend date and the payment date of the repayment of the capital decrease in accordance with applicable legislation and regulations. The procedure and formalities, the ex-dividend date and the payment date of the repayment of the capital decrease will be communicated by the company in accordance with applicable legislation and regulations.
The right to payment of the capital decrease will be represented by coupon number four (4), with corresponding arrangements for dematerialised shares.
Proposed resolution: decision to make, following and subject to the condition precedent of the resolution of the capital decrease set forth in item 2 of the agenda, the following amendments to the conditions and features of the options on profit certificates, profit certificates, options and warrants mentioned hereafter, and the resolutions related thereto that have been approved in the past:
(a) In this resolution, the following terms with a capital letter have the following meaning (unless the context requires otherwise):
"Share": "Share", as defined in the articles of association of the company;
"Class A Options": the "Class A Options" issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of May 27, 2004 and of which the number, the exercise price and certain exercise conditions have already been amended in the past;
"Class B Options": the "Class B Options" issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of December 15, 2004 and of which the number, the exercise price and certain exercise conditions have already been amended in the past;
"Option": each of the Class A Options and Class B Options;
"Class A Profit Certificates": the Class A Profit Certificates as defined in the articles of association of the company;
"Class B Profit Certificates": the Class B Profit Certificates as defined in the articles of association of the company;
"Profit Certificate": each of the Class A Profit Certificates and the Class B Profit Certificates;
"Warrant": each of the bearer warrants, called (A) "Warrants 2007" which were issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of December 27, 2007, (B) "Warrants 2008", which were issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of May 29, 2008, (C) "Warrants 2009", which were issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of May 28, 2009, and (D) "Warrants 2010", which were issued by resolution of the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of April 28, 2010;
"Ex-Date": the date on which the share is traded on Euronext Brussels without coupon 4 (being the right to receive Repayment of the Benefit) for the first time;
"Conversion Ratio": the result of the fraction with (A) as numerator (x) the closing stock exchange price of the company's share as listed on Euronext Brussels with coupon number four (4) attached thereto (being the trading day preceding the Ex-Date, which will be determined by the board of directors) (the "Reference Stock Exchange") "), less (y) the amount of the Benefit, and (B) as denominator the Reference Stock Exchange, and this rounded to six numbers after the comma, whereby the following rounding rules will be applied: if the calculation of the Reference Stock Exchange results into a number with more than six numbers after the comma, the exercise price will be rounded up to the nearest higher number with six numbers after the comma (if the seventh number after the comma is higher than or equal to five (5)) or rounded down to the nearest lower number with six numbers after the comma (if the seventh number after the comma is less than five (5));
Class B Options respectively, as provided in item (b), and consequently, to issue, subject to condition precedent, and to the extent of, the exercise of the Class A Options, Class B Options respectively, each time one (1) new Class A Profit Certificate, respectively Class B Profit Certificate, per Class A Option, respectively Class B Option exercised.
(ii) subject to and to the extent of the conversion of Profit Certificates, per converted Profit Certificate: (A) the company's share capital is increased with an amount equal to the lowest of (x) the fractional value of the existing shares of the company prior to the conversion and (y) the applicable subscription price of the relevant Profit Certificate (taking into account the amendments set forth in item (c)); (B) an amount equal to the difference between the amount mentioned under (A)(y) and the amount mentioned under (A)(x), should this difference be positive, is booked as an issuance premium (which will serve as a guarantee for third parties to the same extent as the company's share capital and which can only be decreased or booked away by means of a resolution of the general shareholders' meeting of the company resolving in the manner required for an amendment to the company's articles of association); (C) the separate unavailable account "Profit Certificates Account" is decreased with an amount equal to the applicable subscription price paid for the relevant Profit Certificate (taking into account the amendments set forth in item (c)); and (D) whereby, after the capital increase, each Share of the company will represent the same fraction of the company's share capital.
(e) Effective as from the Ex-Date, in Article 8bis of the articles of association of the company - Class A Profit Certificates:
whereby in both amendments set forth in item (i) and (ii) (x) the language "[the Ex-Date]" will be the date of the Ex-Date, (y) the language "[price]" will be the exercise price in euro as determined as from the Ex-Date in accordance with the item (b), and (z) the language "[number]" will be the new number of Class A Options into which the Class A Options will be split effective as of the Ex-Date in accordance with item (b) of the agenda. In as far as needed, the board of directors is authorized to record these amendments, including the completion of the concrete date and numbers, in the next coordination of the articles of association, to be drafted after the Ex-Date.
whereby in both amendments set forth in item (i) and (ii) (x) the language "[the Ex-Date]" will be the date of the Ex-Date, (y) the language "[price]" will be the exercise price in euro as determined as from the Ex-date in accordance with the item (b), and (z) the language "[number]" will be the new number of Class B Options into which the Class B Options will be split effective as of the Ex-Date in accordance with item (b). In as far as needed, the board of directors is authorized to record these amendments, including the completion of the concrete date and numbers, in the next coordination of the articles of association, to be drafted after the Ex-Date.
The first sentence of Article 25 (Committee and Delegations) is replaced as follows: "The board of directors may establish the committees it decides to establish, but shall at least establish an Audit Committee, a Remuneration Committee, a Strategic Committee and a Nomination Committee, it being understood however that the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee can converge into one and the same committee."
The following amendments of the articles of association will be made subject to and as the entry into force of new legislation in Belgium, in the form of the Act of December 20, 2010 regarding the exercise of certain rights of shareholders of listed companies, as amended as the case may be, and whereby each member of the board of directors of the company will be authorized to, as soon as reasonably and practically possible after the entry into force of these amendments, take all steps and carry out all formalities that shall be required to record the entry into force of the relevant amendments to the articles of association before the notary public:
(a) The provisions of Article 34: Convening meetings are replaced as follows:
The convocations are done in accordance with the applicable legal provisions. The convocation must contain the information prescribed by the applicable legislation."
(b) The provisions of Article 35: Participation to the general shareholders' meetings are replaced as follows:
The right to participate to a general shareholders' meeting is determined in accordance with applicable legislation. In order to be admitted to and participate in a general shareholders' meeting, a shareholder must make the relevant registrations, filings and notices and comply with other formalities as required by applicable law or as shall be set out (subject to the legal provisions) in the notice convening the meeting."
Prior to the participation to the meeting itself, the shareholders or their attorneys-in-fact must sign the attendance list, thereby mentioning
Subject to additional provisions in these articles of association, the holders of other securities issued by the company (including the holders of warrants and bonds issued by the company) which have the right to participate to the general shareholders' meeting, must mutatis mutandis comply with the same formalities.
In accordance with Article 537 of the Belgian Company Code, the holders of warrants and bonds issued by the company have the right to attend the general meeting, but only with an advisory vote."
This form contains at least the following information: (i) the identity of the Shareholder, (ii) the domicile or registered office of the Shareholder, (iii) the number of Shares or votes with which the Shareholder wishes to participate to the voting, (iv) the form of the Shares held by the shareholder, (v) the agenda of the shareholders' meeting, including the proposed resolutions, (vi) the term within which the company must receive the form for distance voting, and (vii) the positive or negative vote or the abstention relating to each proposed resolution. Forms which do not indicate a positive or negative vote, or the abstention, are void. The form must bear the shareholder's signature (which may be an electronic signature as defined in Article 1322, paragraph 2 of the Civil Code or as otherwise permitted by applicable law).
In accordance with applicable law, the dated and signed voting forms must by sent by letter, fax, email or any other means mentioned in Article 2281 of the Civil Code to the company's registered office or to the place indicated in the notice. The company must receive the voting form at the latest on the sixth calendar day prior to the general shareholders' meeting concerned. In accordance with applicable law, electronic votes are permitted until the day before the general shareholders' meeting concerned.
The board of directors may arrange for distance voting electronically via one or more websites. It shall determine the practical procedures for such electronic voting, ensuring that the system used allows for the inclusion of the information referred to in the second paragraph of this Article 36.3 and controls the compliance with the prescribed time limits."
Quorum: In accordance with the Belgian Company Code, a quorum of at least 50% of the outstanding shares must be present or represented at the extraordinary shareholders' meeting in relation to the deliberation and voting of the respective items mentioned in the agenda of the extraordinary shareholders' meeting. If this quorum would not be obtained, a second extraordinary general shareholders' meeting will be held, unless announced otherwise. The quorum requirement will not apply to this second meeting.
Voting: Subject to the applicable legislation, each share entitles to one vote. In accordance with Article 537 of the Belgian Company Code, the holders of warrants issued by the company may attend the extraordinary general shareholders' meeting, hence with advisory vote only.
Conditions of admission: In order to be admitted to the general shareholders' meetings of the company, the holders of securities issued by the company must comply with Article 536 of the Belgian Company Code and with the company's articles of association, and must fulfill the following formalities and make the following notifications:
• The holders of registered shares or warrants must be registered in the company's register of the registered shares or warrants and must inform the company in writing of their intention to participate to the meeting at the latest on April 22, 2011.
Powers of Attorney – The holders of securities issued by the company, who wish to be represented by means of a power of attorney, are requested to use the proxy form established by the board of directors and that is made available at the registered office and the website (www.telenet.be) of the company. They must deposit their written and duly signed power of attorney at the registered office of the company at the latest on April 22, 2011. Furthermore, they must comply with the formalities for participation to the meetings, as described above.
Voting by mail – Each shareholder further has the right to cast its votes by mail. To be valid, the voting form must set forth the identity of the shareholder, the number of shares with which he wishes to participate to the voting, the entire agenda and the voting intentions (clarified and motivated, as the case may be). The voting form must be sent by registered letter against acknowledgement of receipt to the registered office of the company at the latest on April 22, 2011. The voting form is made available at the registered office and the website (www.telenet.be) of the company. Furthermore, the shareholders must comply with the formalities for participation to the meetings, as described above.
Documents - As of fifteen (15) days prior to the general shareholders' meetings, the holders of securities issued by the company can, upon presentation of their security, obtain at the registered office of the company, free of cost, a copy of the financial statements and the reports referred to in the agenda of the meetings, as well as the annual brochure of the company and the proposal for a new consolidated text of the articles of association of the company. These documents will also be made available at the website of the company (www.telenet.be).
Admission to the meetings: Persons wishing to attend the general shareholders' meetings must submit evidence of their identity and/or power of attorney at the start of the meetings. Representatives of companies must evidence their capacity of representative or proxy holder.
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