Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Mar 16, 2015
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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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 sold or transferred all of your shares in Highway Capital plc, please forward this document, together with the accompanying documents, as soon as possible either to the purchaser or transferee or to the person who arranged the sale or transfer so they can pass these documents to the person who now holds the shares.
(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales with registered number 02991159)
Directors: Dominic Marius Dennis Anthony Wheatley (non-executive Chairman) Maciej Szytko (non-executive director)
Registered Office: Eden House Reynolds Road Beaconsfield HP9 2FL
16 March 2015
Dear Shareholder
Change of Investment Strategy
Highway Capital Plc ("Highway" or "Company") has been a cash shell seeking an acquisition, investment or other transaction for many years and I am writing to you now to seek your consent to the raising of funds to allow us to continue this search.
The purpose of this document is to set out the notice of a general meeting of the Company to be held on 9 April 2015 ("General Meeting") at which resolutions will be proposed to allow a proposed fundraising of up to £3 million by way of an issue of convertible loan notes ("Convertible Loan Notes"). The Convertible Loan Notes are being issued in order to provide the Company with the resources needed to negotiate and consummate one or more acquisitions. The issue of the Convertible Loan Notes requires consent of shareholders to a change in the Company's borrowing powers and the ability to issue new ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") should the Convertible Loan Note holders exercise their ability to convert their holdings into equity.
The Directors are still in the process of negotiating the terms of the Convertible Loan Notes with potential investors and an announcement of their terms will be made in due course. However, it is intended that the Company will issue up to £3,000,000 nominal value Convertible Loan Notes capable of conversion by the holders at no less than 10 pence per Ordinary Share. Accordingly, this assumption has been used in calculating the shareholder authority sought in resolution 1 to be proposed at the general meeting.
It is also intended that the Loan Notes shall be issued at an interest rate of 5% per annum that shall be payable if the Notes are not converted or there is a material breach of the terms. The right to convert is proposed from six months after the date of issue or earlier if an investment is made by the Company which represents more than 50% of its net asset value.
The directors of the Company consider that all the proposals to be considered at the General Meeting are in the best interests of the Company and its members as a whole and are most likely to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its members as a whole. The directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of all the proposed resolutions as they intend to do in respect of their own beneficial holdings.
Yours sincerely
Dominic Wheatley
Chairman
Notice is hereby given that a general meeting ("Meeting") of the company will be held at the offices of Gowlings (UK) LLP, 125 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1AR on 9 April 2015 at 11:00 am for the purposes set out below.
You will be asked to consider and vote on the resolutions below. Resolution 1 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution and resolutions 2 and 3 will be proposed as special resolutions.
To consider and, if thought fit, approve the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:
That the directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised (in addition to any specific or general authority previously conferred on them but without prejudice to the allotment of securities under any such previous authority pursuant to any offer or agreement made prior to the date this resolution is passed) to exercise all the powers of the company to allot shares in the company or to grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert any security into, shares in the company, in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 ("the Act"), up to an aggregate nominal amount of £600,000 PROVIDED THAT this authority shall expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the company after the passing of this resolution and a date being fifteen months after the date of the passing of this resolution save that the company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require the relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry and the directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
To consider and if thought fit, pass the following resolutions as special resolutions:
That the Company's articles of association be amended by the deletion of articles 122(B), 122(C), 122(D) and 122(E) and the re-numbering of article 122(F) as 122(B).
That subject to the passing of resolution 1 above, the directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560 of the Act) of the company for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by the ordinary resolution referred to in resolution 1 above as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to such allotment PROVIDED THAT:
The authority of the directors shall extend to the making of any offer or agreement before the expiration or revocation of this power which would or might require equity securities to be allotted otherwise than in accordance with section 561 of the Act after the expiration or revocation of this power and the directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement notwithstanding the expiry of this power;
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD Registered Office:
Secretary
16 March 2015
In either case, the revocation notice must be received by Neville Registrars Ltd no later than 48 hours before the time of the Meeting.
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