AGM Information • Apr 25, 2025
AGM Information
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If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of the proposals referred to in the document or about the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own independent advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other appropriately authorised independent professional adviser who is authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are in the United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriately authorised independent adviser.

evoke plc (The "Company") (Registered in Gibraltar with company number 90099)
Notice of 2025 Annual General Meeting
Registered office Suite 601/701 Europort Europort Road Gibraltar
Registered in Gibraltar with company number 90099
If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of the proposals referred to in the document or about the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own independent advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other appropriately authorised independent professional adviser who is authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are in the United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriately authorised independent adviser.
If you have sold or transferred all your ordinary shares (the "Ordinary Shares") or underlying depositary interests (the "Depositary Interests") in evoke plc ("evoke" or the "Company"), you should pass this letter and all other documents enclosed with it to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbrokers, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee as soon as possible.
Notice of the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of evoke to be held at 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on Wednesday 28 May 2025 is set out on pages 7 and 8 of this document.
The Meeting will take place at the office of Hudson Sandler LLP at 25 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AE. Shareholders not able to attend in person will be able to follow the proceedings of the Meeting over the online Investor Meet Company platform by registering in advance via the following link:
Shareholders are invited to submit any questions in respect of the business of the Meeting for the Board to consider. Questions may be submitted in advance or during the Meeting over the Investor Meet Company platform following registration, and the Board will aim to respond to any such questions relevant to the business of the Meeting.
A live broadcast of the Meeting will be opened over the platform at approximately 8.55am UK time (9.55am Gibraltar time) on 28 May 2025. Shareholders joining over the platform will be able to see and hear the Meeting, but will not be seen or heard by the Board.
evoke plc is committed to reducing paper and improving efficiency in its shareholder communications. As was the case last year, you will not receive a hard copy form for the 2025 AGM in the post automatically. You may request a hard copy form directly from our Registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets (formerly Link Group). Details of how to request, and complete, a hard copy form are set out in notes on page 9 of this document. All instructions must be received by the Registrars by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 22 May 2024 for Depositary Interest Holders and Employee Shareholders and 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 23 May 2024 for Ordinary Shareholders.
You can submit your proxy appointment or voting instruction electronically by logging on to https://www.signalshares.com. Further details are set out in the notes on page 9.
If you wish to vote at the Meeting you are strongly encouraged to do so by submitting your proxy appointment or voting instruction in advance as appropriate. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE AT THE MEETING OVER THE ONLINE PLATFORM.
The Board encourages shareholders to watch the Company's website and regulatory news services for any updates in relation to the Meeting that may need to be provided.
A proxy appointment should be submitted electronically by logging on to https://www.signalshares.com or via the VOTE+ app as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 23 May 2025. Alternatively, a hard copy form may be requested from the registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets, and should be completed and returned, in accordance with the instructions printed thereon, as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 23 May 2025.
A voting instruction should be completed by Depositary Interest Holders and Employee Shareholders electronically by logging on to https://www.signalshares.com or via the VOTE+ app as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 22 May 2025. Alternatively, a hard copy form may be requested from the registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets, and should be completed and returned, in accordance with the instructions printed thereon, as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 22 May 2025.
Depositary Interest Holders who are CREST members may instruct the Depositary how to vote through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the meeting and any adjournment(s) thereof by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual.
If you are an institutional investor, Depositary Interest Holders may also be able to submit an instruction electronically via the Proxymity platform, a process which has been agreed by the Company and approved by the Registrar. For further information regarding Proxymity, please go to www.proxymity.io.
evoke plc Suite 601/701 Europort Europort Road Gibraltar
25 April 2025
To:
Dear Sir/Madam
Our 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time). The Meeting location will be the office of Hudson Sandler LLP at 25 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AE.
The directors of the Company (the "Directors") strongly encourage you to fill in the Form of Proxy if you are an Ordinary Shareholder, or if you are Depositary Interest Holder or Employee Shareholder, the Form of Direction. Please see "Action to be taken" below for further details.
The Notice convening the Meeting is set out on pages 7 and 8 and I am writing to give you details of the items of business to be transacted at the Meeting.
The business of the Meeting will be to consider and if, thought fit, pass the resolutions set out on pages 8 to 10.
These resolutions deal with the Annual Report & Accounts 2024 (Resolution 1), and the Directors' Remuneration Report (Resolution 2). These resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.
These resolutions deal with the election and re-election of Directors. These resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.
These resolutions deal with the re-appointment of the auditors and the auditors' remuneration (Resolutions 12 and 13), and the Directors' authority to allot shares (Resolution 14). All these resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.
These resolutions deal with the authority for the Company to purchase its own shares (Resolution 15), and the authority of the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights, in line with UK institutional shareholder guidelines (Resolutions 16 and 17). These resolutions will be proposed as special resolutions.
An explanation of each of the resolutions is set out on pages 5 to 7 of this document.
Your Board unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in favour of all the resolutions set out in the Notice of the Meeting, which they consider to be in the best interests of the Company and the shareholders as a whole.
The Directors intend to vote in favour of all resolutions in respect of their beneficial shareholdings totalling 4,290,636 Ordinary Shares representing 0.95% of the issued share capital of the Company as at 28 February 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to publication of this Notice).
A proxy appointment should be submitted electronically by logging on to https://www.signalshares.com or via the VOTE+ app as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 23 May 2025. Alternatively, a hard copy form may be requested from the registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets, and should be completed and returned, in accordance with the instructions printed thereon, as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 23 May 2025.
A voting instruction should be completed by Depositary Interest Holders and Employee Shareholders electronically by logging on to https://www.signalshares.com or via the VOTE+ app as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 22 May 2025. Alternatively, a hard copy form may be requested from the registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets, and should be completed and returned, in accordance with the instructions printed thereon, as soon as possible and by no later than 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) on 22 May 2024.
Depositary Interest Holders who are CREST members may instruct the Depositary how to vote through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the meeting and any adjournment(s) thereof by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual.
If you are an institutional investor, Depositary Interest Holders may also be able to submit an instruction electronically via the Proxymity platform, a process which has been agreed by the Company and approved by the Registrar. For further information regarding Proxymity, please go to www.proxymity.io.
Yours faithfully
Lord Jon Mendelsohn Chairman
The notes on the following pages give an explanation of the proposed resolutions.
Resolutions 1 to 14 are proposed as ordinary resolutions. 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. Resolutions 15 to 17 are proposed as special resolutions. This means that for each of those resolutions to be passed, at least three-quarters of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.
In accordance with the Gibraltar Companies Act, the Directors will present the Annual Report & Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 to the general meeting of shareholders.
The Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 is set out on pages 82–93 of the Company's Annual Report & Accounts 2024.
As the Company is Gibraltar incorporated, it is not required to prepare a directors' remuneration report pursuant to the UK Directors' Remuneration Report requirements in Schedule 8 to the UK Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 (as amended) (the "DRR Regulations").
The Company has, however, prepared the Directors' Remuneration Report substantially in line with the requirements of the DRR Regulations on a voluntary basis as if the Company were required to do so, as a matter of good governance.
The shareholder vote on the Directors' Remuneration Report is advisory in nature and the Directors' entitlement to remuneration is not conditional on it. The Board will take the outcome of the vote into consideration in setting the Company's remuneration policy for its Directors.
In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, all Directors of the Company will retire at the Annual General Meeting and are offering themselves for re-election.
In proposing the election or re-election of the Directors, the Chairman has confirmed that, following formal performance evaluation, each individual continues to make an effective and valuable contribution to the Board and demonstrates commitment to the role.
Details of the Board evaluation process in relation to the Directors can be found on pages 68 and 71 of the Company's Annual Report & Accounts 2024.
Following a rigorous search process by the Nominations Committee, the Company seeks shareholder approval for the appointment of Non-Executive Director, Susan Standiford.
Biographical details of the current Directors are shown on pages 62–63 of the Company's Annual Report & Accounts 2024.
The Company's independent auditors must be appointed or reappointed each year at the Annual General Meeting.
The Directors propose that, following the recommendation of the Audit & Risk Committee, Ernst & Young LLP and EY Limited, Gibraltar (together, "EY"), be reappointed as auditors, including for the purposes of meeting the Company's statutory requirements under Section 257 of the Gibraltar Companies Act, as amended, and the filing of the Company's financial statements in Gibraltar pursuant to Section 258 of the Gibraltar Companies Act 2014, as amended. EY has expressed its willingness to continue in office.
Resolution 13 authorises the Audit & Risk Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration.
Resolution 14 is proposed to renew the Directors' authority to allot relevant securities, in line with UK institutional shareholder guidelines. Paragraph (a)(i) of the resolution will allow the Directors to allot relevant securities up to a maximum nominal amount of £749,521.78 representing no more than one-third (33.33%) of the Company's Ordinary Share capital in issue as at 28 February 2025, being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this Notice, such amount to be reduced by the nominal amount of any equity securities allotted under paragraph (a)(ii) in excess of £749,521.78. In accordance with institutional guidelines issued by The Investment Association, paragraph (a)(ii) of the resolution will allow Directors to allot, including the relevant securities referred to in paragraph (a)(i), further of the Company's shares in connection with a pre-emptive offer (including by way of a rights issue or open offer) to up to a maximum nominal amount of £1,499,043.56, representing no more than two-thirds (66.66%) of the Company's Ordinary Share capital in issue as at 28 February 2025, being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this Notice, such amount to be reduced by any relevant securities allotted under paragraph (a)(i).
This authority will expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026.
The Directors have no present intention of exercising this authority. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.
Resolution 15 is to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.
In certain circumstances it may be advantageous for the Company to purchase its own shares. The Board considers it desirable for the general authority to purchase its own shares to be available to provide maximum flexibility in the management of the Company's capital resources.
Pursuant to its Memorandum and Articles of Association and Section 105 of the Gibraltar Companies Act, the Company has the power to purchase its own shares. The resolution to be proposed at the Meeting will enable the Company, subject to certain limitations, to purchase shares in the market for cancellation. This authority will expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026, unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting. Such authority would allow for purchases to be made on the terms set out in the resolution of up to a maximum number of 44,971,306 Ordinary Shares (representing no more than 10% of the issued Ordinary Share capital as at 28 February 2025, being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this document).
The proposed maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for each Ordinary Share will be the higher of: (i) an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market quotations of an Ordinary Share in the Company as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the Ordinary Share is contracted to be purchased; and (ii) an amount equal to the higher of the price of the last independent trade of an Ordinary Share and the highest current independent bid for an Ordinary Share in the Company as derived from the London Stock Exchange Trading System. The proposed minimum permitted price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share will be the nominal value of an Ordinary Share of £0.005.
A purchase of the proposed maximum of 44,971,306 Ordinary Shares at the share price of £0.684 (the closing market price on 28 February 2025) would involve the Company in expenditure of approximately £30,760,373.30 before commissions, and at the proposed minimum price of £0.005 would involve the Company in the expenditure, on the same basis, of approximately £224,856.53 before commissions.
As at 28 February 2025, there were outstanding options to subscribe for a total of 11,466,263 Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing approximately 2.5% of the Company's issued share capital at that time. If the Company were to exercise in full the proposed authority to purchase its own shares and prior to such purchase the Company's issued share capital remained unchanged, the shares for which there are outstanding options to subscribe would represent approximately 2.8% of the Company's issued Ordinary Share capital, as reduced by those purchases. The Company does not hold any treasury shares as at 28 February 2025.
The Directors intend to use the general share purchase authority with discretion and purchases would only be made from funds not required for other purposes and in light of market conditions prevailing at the time and other investment opportunities. The Directors will use this authority only after careful consideration, taking into account the Company's cash resources and capital, appropriate gearing levels and the overall position of the Company. The Directors will only purchase such shares if satisfied that it was in the interest of the shareholders as a whole to do so and would result in an increase in earnings per share and would benefit shareholders generally. No announcement will be made by the Company in advance of market purchases, but any purchases made by the Company would be announced by 7.30am UK time (8.30am Gibraltar time) on the business day next following the transaction.
Any purchases of Ordinary Shares would be by means of market purchases through the London Stock Exchange. Such Ordinary Shares would be automatically cancelled.
Resolution 16 seeks to renew the Directors' authority to allot equity securities for cash without first offering them to existing shareholders, in line with the latest UK institutional shareholder guidelines. Under Articles 19–26 of the Company's Articles of Association, if the Directors wish to allot Ordinary Shares, or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, Ordinary Shares, they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings. Apart from rights issues or any other pre-emptive offer concerning equity securities, the authority would allow the Directors to issue shares for cash up to a maximum aggregate nominal amount of £112,428.27 representing 22,485,653 Ordinary Shares (representing no more than 5% of the Company's Ordinary Share capital in issue as at 28 February 2025, being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this Notice) without first being required to offer such shares to existing shareholders.
This authority will expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Board may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired. The Directors have no present intention of exercising this authority.
Resolution 17 requests further shareholder approval, by way of a separate special resolution in line with the best practice guidance issued by the Pre-Emption Group, for the Directors to allot equity securities for cash without first being required to offer such securities to existing shareholders. The proposed resolution reflects the Pre-Emption Group 2023 Statement of Principles for the disapplication of pre-emption rights (the "Statement of Principles") and will expire on 30 June 2026 or at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution, whichever is the earlier.
The authority granted by this resolution, if passed:
The authority granted by this resolution would be in addition to the general authority to disapply pre-emption rights under Resolution 16. The maximum nominal value of equity securities which could be allotted if both authorities were used would be £224,856.53 representing 44,971,306 Ordinary Shares, representing no more than 10% of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company as at 28 February 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to publication of this Notice).
evoke plc – no. 90099
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of evoke plc will be held on Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 9.00am UK time (10.00am Gibraltar time) for the following purposes. The Meeting location will be the office of Hudson Sandler LLP at 25 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6AE.
14.THAT:
and so that the Directors may make such exclusions or other arrangements as they consider expedient in relation to treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, shares represented by depositary receipts, legal or practical problems under the laws in any territory or the requirements of any relevant regulatory body or stock exchange or any other matter;
b. this authority shall expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026, save that, in each case, the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Board may allot relevant securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired. All previous unutilised authorities will cease to have effect.
so that the Directors may make such exclusions or other arrangements as they consider expedient in relation to treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, shares represented by depositary receipts, legal or practical problems under the laws in any territory or the requirements of any relevant regulatory body or stock exchange or any other matter; and
b. to the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of £112,428.27.
This authority shall expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Board may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
This authority shall expire upon the earlier of: (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after passing this resolution; and (ii) 30 June 2026, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Board may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
On behalf of the Board
Suite 601/701 Europort Europort Road Gibraltar
25 April 2025

MUFG Corporate Markets Trustees (Nominees) Limited will appoint the chair of the meeting as its proxy to cast your votes. The appointed proxy may also vote or abstain from voting as they think fit on any other business (including amendments to resolutions) which may properly come before the meeting.
i. Holders of Depositary Interests who are CREST members and who wish to submit their instruction through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the AGM and any adjournment(s) of the meeting by using the procedures described in the CREST Manual. 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. The Depositary will appoint the Chair of the meeting as its proxy to cast your votes. The Chair may also vote or abstain from voting as they think fit on any other business (including amendments to resolutions) which may properly come before the meeting.
In order for an instruction 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 Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message, regardless of whether it constitutes a new instruction or is an amendment to the instruction given to previously, must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's Registrar, MUFG Corporate Markets (CREST Participant ID: RA10), no later than 72 hours before the time appointed for the meeting (excluding weekends and public holidays). For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the CREST Application Host) from which the Company's Registrar is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time, any change to instructions through CREST should be communicated through other means.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) should note that Euroclear UK & International Limited does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular messages. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST 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 his 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 regard, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) 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 Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.
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Suite 601/701 Europort Europort Road Gibraltar
Registered in Gibraltar with company number 90099
t: +350 200 48571
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