Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • May 11, 2021
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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That, the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014, to exercise all of the powers of the Company to allot and issue all relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014) of the Company:
The authority hereby conferred under this Resolution 7 shall commence at the time of the passing of this resolution and shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the date of passing this resolution, whichever is earlier, unless and to the extent that such power is varied, revoked, or renewed prior to such date; provided that the Company may before such expiry make offer(s) and/or agreement(s) which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry, and the Directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of any such offer(s) and/or agreement(s) as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
That, subject to the passing of Resolution 7 and for the purposes of Sections 1022 and 1023(3) of the Companies Act 2014, the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, in addition to and without prejudice to or limitation of any power and/or authority granted pursuant to Resolution 8(b), to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023(1) of the Companies Act 2014) for cash pursuant to and in accordance with the authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 7 and/or the Articles of Association of the Company as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to such allotment, to include the re-allotment of any treasury shares from time to time, provided that the powers conferred by this resolution shall be limited to:
(i) the allotment of equity securities in connection with any one or more issues or offerings to or in favour of holders of equity securities and/or any other persons entitled to participate in such issue or offering (other than the Company itself in respect of any shares held by it as treasury shares) at such record date(s) as the Directors may determine where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders and persons are proportionate in nominal value (as nearly as may be practicable) to the respective number of equity securities held by or deemed to be held by them on the record date(s) of such allotment(s) and subject thereto to the allotment in any case by way of placing or otherwise of any equity securities not taken up in such issues or offerings as the Directors may determine; and generally subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the
Directors may consider necessary or expedient to in relation to any legal and/or practical issues (including to deal with any fractional entitlements and/or arising in respect of overseas members and/or jurisdictional issues) under the laws or requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory; and
(ii) the allotment, other than on foot of the authority conferred by sub-paragraph (i) above, of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of €2,625,394.73, representing 5% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company as at 5 p.m. on 24 March 2021,
provided that the authority hereby conferred shall expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or the close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the passing of this special resolution unless and to the extent varied, revoked or renewed prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offer(s) and/or agreement(s) which would or might require equity securities to be allotted or issued after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer (s) and/or agreement(s) as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 8(b)):
That, subject to the passing of Resolution 7, for the purposes of Sections 1022 and 1023(3) of the Companies Act 2014, the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, in addition to and without prejudice to or limitation of any power and/or authority granted pursuant to Resolution 8(a), to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023(1) of the Companies Act 2014) for cash pursuant to and in accordance with the authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 7 and/or the Articles of Association of the Company as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to such allotment, to include the re-allotment of any treasury shares from time to time, provided that the powers conferred by this resolution shall be limited to:
provided that the authority hereby conferred shall expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or the close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the passing of this special resolution unless and to the extent revoked, varied or renewed prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offer(s) and/or agreement(s) which would or might require equity securities to be allotted or issued after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer(s) and/or agreement(s) as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
9. To consider and if thought fit to pass the following as an ordinary resolution (Resolution 9):
That, the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014, to make awards and to allot and issue relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014) of the Company for the purpose of, and pursuant to, the Company's 2014 Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP"), which, when aggregated with all commitments to allot and/or issue relevant securities (including the re-allotment and/or re-issue of any treasury shares) under the LTIP and all awards of relevant securities under any other share award or share option plan operated by the Company or any subsidiary (from time to time), do not exceed:
whichever is the lesser, provided that the authority hereby conferred under this Resolution 9 shall expire on the termination of the LTIP or if earlier, the close of business on the date which is 5 years after the passing of this resolution unless and to the extent such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offer(s), agreement(s) and/or award(s) under the LTIP which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted or issued pursuant to the LTIP after such expiry and the Directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of any such offer(s), agreement(s) and or award(s) as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
10. To consider and if thought fit to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 10):
That, subject to the passing of Resolution 9, for the purposes of Section 1022 and 1023(3) of the Companies Act 2014, the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to make awards and allot equity securities (as defined in Section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014) of the Company for the purpose of the LTIP, including the re-allotment of any treasury shares from time to time, pursuant to and in accordance with the authority conferred by Resolution 9, as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to such allotment, provided that the authority hereby conferred under this Resolution 10 shall expire on the termination of the LTIP or if earlier, the close of business on the date which is 5 years after the passing of this resolution unless and to the extent such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such date in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offer(s), agreement(s) and/or award(s) under the LTIP which would or might require equity securities to be allotted or issued pursuant to the LTIP after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer (s), agreement(s) and or award(s) as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
11. To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 11):
That the Company and any subsidiary of the Company for the time being be and they are each hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases including overseas market purchases (in each case within the meaning of Section 1072 of the Companies Act 2014), of any ordinary shares in the share capital of the Company (including any contract of purchase, which will or might be concluded wholly or partly after the expiry date below) on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Directors may determine from time to time subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, provided that:
(iii)
any number of ordinary shares on the trading venue where the purchase pursuant to the authority conferred by this resolution will be carried out);
For the purpose of Resolution 11 and Resolution 12, the "Appropriate Price" is the average of the five amounts resulting from determining whichever of the following (I), (II) or (III) specified below in relation to shares of the class of which such treasury share is to be re-issued shall be appropriate in respect of each of the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the treasury share is re-issued, as determined from information on the business done published in the Daily Official List in Dublin of the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) relating to each of these five business days:
and if there shall be only a high (but not a low) or a low (but not a high) market guide price reported, or if there shall not be any market guide price reported, for any particular day, then that day shall not count as one of the said five business days for the purposes of determining the "Appropriate Price". If the means of providing the foregoing information as to dealings and prices by reference to which the "Appropriate Price" is to be determined is altered or is replaced by some other means, then the "Appropriate Price" is to be determined on the basis of the equivalent information published by the relevant authority in relation to dealings published in the Daily Official List in Dublin of the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) or its equivalent.
12. To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following as a special resolution (Resolution 12):
That the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014 to re-allot treasury shares (within the meaning of Section 106 of the Companies Act 2014) as relevant securities and pursuant to Section 1023 of the Companies Act 2014, to re-allot treasury shares as equity securities as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to any such re-allotment provided that:
(a) this power shall be subject to the limits provided by Resolutions 7, 8(a) and 8(b) and shall expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or the close of business on the date which is 15 calendar months after the passing of this special resolution unless and to the extent varied, revoked or renewed by special resolution prior to such date, save that the Company may before such expiry make offer(s) and/or agreement(s), which would or might require such re-allotment to occur after such expiry and the Directors may re-allot securities pursuant to any such offer(s) and/or agreement(s) as if the power conferred hereby had not expired;
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