Legal Proceedings Report • Jun 18, 2025
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Notice of Rescheduled Second Court Hearing
18 June 2025
Clean Seas Seafood Limited (ASX: CSS) (“Clean Seas”, “CSS”, “the Company”) refers to its announcements dated 31 March 2025, 15 April 2025 and 17 June 2025 regarding entry into a Scheme Implementation Deed (“SID”) with Yumbah Aquaculture Ltd (“Yumbah”) under which Yumbah will acquire 100% of the shares in CSS by way of a scheme of arrangement (“Scheme”).
Today the Federal Court of Australia ("Court") has made orders:
• that the meeting of Clean Seas Shareholders to consider and vote on the Scheme (“Scheme Meeting”) be rescheduled to 12:00pm (Adelaide time) on 8 July 2025; and
• approving the distribution to Clean Seas Shareholders of the supplementary scheme booklet in connection with the Scheme (“Supplementary Scheme Booklet”).
The Scheme Meeting will be held in person at 12:00pm (Adelaide time) on Tuesday, 8 July 2025 at Grant Thornton, Level 3, 170 Frome Street, Adelaide SA 5000. Subject to the Clean Seas Shareholders approving the Scheme by the requisite majorities at the Scheme Meeting, the Court will hear an application by CSS to approve the Scheme on 15 July 2025 at 10:00am (Adelaide time) at the Federal Court of Australia (South Australia registry), Roma Mitchell Commonwealth Law Courts Building, 3 Angas Street, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 ("Second Court Hearing").
If you wish to oppose the approval of the Scheme by the Court at the Second Court Hearing, you must file with the Court and serve on CSS a notice of appearance, in the prescribed form, together with any affidavit on which you wish to rely on at the Second Court Hearing. The notice of appearance and any supporting affidavit must be served on CSS at its address for service at least one (1) day prior to the date fixed for the Second Court Hearing.
The address for service of CSS is:
By mail:
Clean Seas Seafood Limited
7 Frederick Road
Royal Park SA 2014
Attention: Rob Gratton, CEO and Joint Company Secretary
or
By email:
Shareholder Information Line
If you have any questions in relation to the Scheme or the Supplementary Scheme Booklet, please contact the Clean Seas Shareholder Information Line between 8:30am and 5:30pm (Sydney time), Monday to Friday on:
• 1300 737 760 (within Australia)
• +61 2 9290 9600 (outside Australia)
This announcement is authorised by the Independent Board Committee of the Company.
For further information on Clean Seas Seafood, please contact:
Rob Gratton
CEO
+61 434 148 979
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