Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Oct 19, 2023
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (Meeting) of Rockpool Acquisitions Plc (Company) will be held at The Merchant Room, Eagle Star House, 5-7 Upper Queen Street, Belfast, BT1 6FB on Friday 17 November 2023 at 10:00am.
You will be asked to consider and vote on resolutions 1 to 9, below, all of which will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.
To receive the Company's annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2023 together with the strategic report, the directors' report and the auditor's report on those accounts.
To re-appoint Richard Beresford who is retiring by rotation in accordance with the Company's articles of association, being recommended by the board and eligible for re-appointment, as a director of the Company.
To re-appoint Michael Irvine who is retiring by rotation in accordance with the Company's articles of association, being recommended by the board and eligible for re-appointment, as a director of the Company.
To re-appoint Neil Adair who is retiring by rotation in accordance with the Company's articles of association, being recommended by the board and eligible for re-appointment, as a director of the Company.
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the Directors' Remuneration Policy) set out on pages 13 to 16 of the annual report for the financial year ended 31 March 2023.
To re-appoint Grant Thornton (NI) LLP as the Company's auditor to hold office from the
conclusions of this meeting until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting at which account are laid before the Company.
To authorise the directors of the Company to determine the auditor's remuneration.
To continue relaxing the operation of Article 111 of the Company's Articles of Association so that the directors may, notwithstanding any interest they may have, vote and form part of the quorum in relation to any issue of shares or rights to acquire shares or any other transaction or arrangement that is put before the directors for their approval for the purposes of or in connection with the acquisition of Amcomri Group Limited or the readmission of the Company's shares to the market immediately following that acquisition or as may otherwise be contemplated by the Company's letter of intent in relation to Amcomri Group Limited dated 11 November 2022 including without limitation the grant of options to the Directors.
To authorise the directors generally and unconditionally for the purposes of section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 to exercise any power of the Company to (i) offer or allot; (ii) grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into; and (iii) otherwise deal in or dispose of, any shares (or any options, warrants, conversion rights and all other rights to acquire or subscribe for shares) to any person, at any time and subject to any terms and conditions as the directors think proper.
The authority referred to in this resolution shall be limited to shares having a maximum nominal amount of £40 million and shall only apply insofar as the Company has not, subject to the Company's articles of association, renewed, waived or revoked it by ordinary resolution and shall expire, if not renewed prior to such time, on the date occurring 24 months from the date of the passing of this resolution save that the expiry of this authority shall not affect the offer, allotment, grant or dealing after the expiry of this authority where such offer, allotment, grant or dealing was approved pursuant to this authority.
You will also be asked to consider and vote on resolution 10 below which will be proposed as a special resolution.
THAT, in accordance with section 570(1) of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act), the directors be granted the power to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Act) pursuant to the authorisation granted by resolution 9 as if section 561 (existing shareholders' right of pre-emption) did not apply to the allotment or applied to the allotment with such modifications as the directors may determine. In accordance with section 570(4) of the Act, the directors may, prior to the expiry of the power conferred by this resolution, make an offer or agreement which would, or might, require any equity securities to be allotted after the expiry of such power (and the directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if such power had not expired).
By order of the Board
……………………………. Richard Beresford, Director Rockpool Acquisitions Plc c/o Cordovan Capital Management Limited Suite 102 Urban Hq, Upper Queen Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT1 6FB
Dated: 19 October 2023
7. The notes to the proxy form explain how to direct your proxy how to vote on each resolution.
To appoint a proxy using the proxy form, the form must be:
In the case of a shareholder which is a company, the proxy form 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 proxy form is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included with the proxy form.
If you have not received a proxy form and believe that you should have one, or if you require additional proxy forms, please contact Carina Loibl by email [email protected] (with a copy to [email protected]).
8. As an alternative to completing a hard-copy proxy form, you can appoint a proxy electronically by emailing the proxy form to Carina Loibl by email [email protected] (with a copy to [email protected]). For an electronic proxy appointment to be valid, your appointment must be received by the Company no later than 48 hours (excluding non-working days) before the time of the meeting.
message must be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent Neville Registrars, (ID 7RA11) by no later than 48 hours (excluding non-working days) prior to the meeting.
Where you have appointed a proxy using the hard-copy proxy form and would like to change the instructions using another hard-copy proxy form, please contact Carina Loibl by email [email protected] (with a copy to [email protected] ).
If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take precedence.
appointment to the Company, executed as above, to an email and sending it to Carina Loibl by email [email protected] (with a copy to [email protected]).
In either case, the revocation notice must be received by the Company no later than 24 hours before the time of the meeting.
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 electronically 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 meeting 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.
Any persons whose shares are held on their behalf by another person and who have been nominated to receive communications from the Company in accordance with section 146 of the Companies Act 2006 (Nominated Persons) may have a right under an agreement with the registered shareholder who holds shares on their behalf to be appointed (or to have someone else appointed) as a proxy. Alternatively, if Nominated Persons do not have such a right, or do not wish to exercise it, they may have a right under such an agreement to give instructions to the registered holder of the shares as to the exercise of voting rights.
The statement of the rights of shareholders in relation to the appointment of proxies set out above does not apply to Nominated Persons. The rights described in these Notes can only be exercised by shareholders of the Company.
(i) the audit of the Company's accounts (including the auditor's report and the conduct of the audit) that are to be laid before the meeting; or
(ii) any circumstances connected with an auditor of the Company ceasing to hold office since the previous meeting at which annual accounts and reports were laid in accordance with section 437 of the Companies Act 2006.
The Company may not require the shareholder requesting any such website publication to pay its expenses in complying with sections 527 or 528 of the Companies Act 2006. Where the Company is required to place a statement on a website under section 527 of the Companies Act 2006, it must forward the statement to the Company's auditor not later than the time when it makes the statement available on the website. The business which may be dealt with at the meeting includes any statement that the Company has been required under section 527 of the Companies Act 2006 to publish on a website.
(i) To give to members of the Company entitled to receive notice of the meeting, notice of a resolution which may properly be moved and is intended to be moved at the meeting; and/or
(ii) To include in the business to be dealt with at the meeting any matter (other than a proposed resolution) which may be properly included in the business. A resolution may properly be moved or a matter may properly be included in the business unless:
a. (in the case of a resolution only) it would, if passed, be ineffective (whether by reason of inconsistency with any enactment of the Company's constitution or otherwise); or
The Company will give notice of such a resolution or of such other business if sufficient requests have been received in accordance with section 338(3) and 338A(3) of the Companies Act 2006.
You may not use any electronic address provided either:
to communicate with the Company for any purposes other than those expressly stated.
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