AGM Information • Jul 2, 2025
AGM Information
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IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT OR THE ACTION YOU SHOULD TAKE, YOU ARE RECOMMENDED TO SEEK IMMEDIATELY YOUR OWN PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVICE FROM YOUR INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISER, STOCKBROKER, BANK MANAGER, SOLICITOR, ACCOUNTANT, OR FROM ANOTHER APPROPRIATELY QUALIFIED AND DULY AUTHORISED INDEPENDENT ADVISER.
If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your shares in Syncona Limited, please send this document and the accompanying documents at once to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, banker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for onward transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
(a registered closed-ended collective investment scheme regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and incorporated as a non-cellular company limited by shares under the laws of Guernsey with registration number 55514)
Notice of the 2025 Annual General Meeting to be held at 1.00 p.m. on 5 August 2025 at the offices of Citco Fund Services (Guernsey) Limited, Frances House, Sir William Place, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1GX is set out at the end of this document.
Shareholders are requested to submit a form of proxy electronically using the Investor Centre web browser at https://uk.investorcentre. mpms.mufg.com/, the CREST electronic proxy appointment service, Proxymity or the Investor Centre app for the 2025 Annual General Meeting. To be valid, the proxy must be received by MUFG Corporate Markets as soon as possible and, in any event, not later than 1.00 p.m. on 1 August 2025. Alternatively, Shareholders may request a hard copy Form of Proxy from our Registrars, MUFG Corporate Markets, and return this to PXS 1, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL, no later than 1.00 p.m. on 1 August 2025.
Your attention is drawn to the letter from the Chair of Syncona Limited which is set out in Part 1 of this document and which recommends that you vote in favour of the Resolutions to be proposed at the 2025 Annual General Meeting. Your attention is also drawn to the section entitled 'Action to be Taken' on page 4 of this document.
(a registered closed-ended collective investment scheme regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and incorporated as a non-cellular company limited by shares under the laws of Guernsey with registration number 55514)
Melanie Gee (Chair) Julie Cherrington Cristina Csimma Virginia Holmes Robert Hutchinson Kemal Malik Gian Piero Reverberi John Roche
PO Box 273, Sir William Place, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3RD, Channel Islands
Registered office:
Dear Shareholder,
The 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held at the offices of Citco Fund Services (Guernsey) Limited, Frances House, Sir William Place, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1GX at 1.00 p.m. on 5 August 2025. The business to be considered at the 2025 Annual General Meeting is contained in the notice convening the 2025 Annual General Meeting accompanying this letter.
This letter explains the business to be considered at the 2025 Annual General Meeting and includes a brief explanation of each of the Resolutions to be considered and a recommendation that you vote in favour of the Resolutions set out in the notice of the 2025 Annual General Meeting.
The Board is committed to allowing Shareholders the opportunity to engage with the Board, whether or not they can attend the 2025 Annual General Meeting in person. If Shareholders have any questions for the Board in advance of the 2025 Annual General Meeting, these can be sent by email to [email protected]. The Board will endeavour to answer key themes arising from these questions on the Company's website as soon as practicable.
Resolution 1: The Directors must lay the annual audited accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2025 and the reports of the Directors and Auditors before the Shareholders and the Shareholders will be asked to receive and consider the financial statements and the reports.
Resolutions 2 and 3: Shareholders will be asked to confirm the reappointment of Deloitte LLP (Guernsey Branch) as Auditors until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting due to be held in 2026 and to grant authority to the Board to determine their remuneration.
Resolutions 4 to 10 (inclusive): In accordance with corporate governance best practice as set out in the UK Corporate Governance Code, all of the Directors, except Virginia Holmes, are standing for re-election, and in the case of John Roche only, election. Each Director elected or re-elected will hold office until he or she retires or ceases to be a Director in accordance with the Articles, by operation of law or until he or she resigns.
The Board confirms that it considers all of the Directors seeking election or re-election are performing effectively and are committed to their roles.
The biographies of each of the Directors standing for election or re-election, all of whom are non-executive, can be found on pages 76 to 79 of the Company's Annual Report and audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 (the 'Annual Report'), together with a description of the contribution of each Director to the Company's long-term success.
Resolution 11: Shareholders will be asked to approve the Report on implementation of the Remuneration Policy for Non-Executive Directors contained on pages 91 and 92 within the Report of the Remuneration Committee in the Company's Annual Report.
Resolution 12: The Directors are seeking the authority to allot and issue, grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert securities into, up to 202,599,150 Ordinary Shares (being 33.33 per cent of the shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date, excluding shares held in treasury). The authority expires on the date falling fifteen months after the date of passing of Resolution 12 or the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, whichever is the earlier, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted and issued after such expiry and the Directors may allot and issue shares in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
This authority supplements Article 4.5 of the Articles which, subject to any limitations imposed by the Shareholders, generally and unconditionally authorises the Directors to allot and issue, grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert securities into, an unlimited amount of shares in the Company.
The Directors have no present intention to exercise the authority conferred by Resolution 12, other than in relation to the shares to be issued in accordance with the long-term incentive scheme.
Resolution 13: The Directors are seeking to renew the authority to purchase the Company's shares in the market up to 91,117,949 Ordinary Shares (equivalent to 14.99 per cent of the shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date, excluding shares held in treasury) from time to time either for cancellation or to hold as treasury shares for future resale or transfer.
Purchases will be made in the market to reduce the Company's share capital and will be at prices below the prevailing net asset value per share in the Company in circumstances in which the Directors believe such purchases will result in an increase in the net asset value per share of the remaining shares or as a means of addressing any imbalance between the supply of, and demand for, the shares. As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Company has used the authority granted at the annual general meeting held on 6 August 2024 to purchase 64,356,396 Ordinary Shares which are now being held in treasury.
As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Company held 64,356,396 Ordinary Shares in treasury.
The authority expires on the date falling fifteen months after the date of passing of this Resolution 13 or the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, whichever is the earlier.
Resolution 14: The Directors are seeking to renew the disapplication of the pre-emption rights contained in the Articles so that the Board has authority to allot and issue (or sell from treasury) shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis in respect of 60,785,823 Ordinary Shares in the Company (equivalent to 10 per cent of the shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date, excluding shares held in treasury). The disapplication expires on the date falling fifteen months after the date of passing of Resolution 14 or the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, whichever is the earlier, and permits the Board to allot and issue shares (or sell shares from treasury) after expiry of the disapplication if it has agreed to do so beforehand.
The Board will only issue shares (or sell shares from treasury) pursuant to the disapplication at a price at or above the prevailing net asset value per share.
The quorum required for the 2025 Annual General Meeting is two Shareholders entitled to vote and attending in person or by proxy (or, in the case of a corporation, by a duly appointed representative).
Resolutions 1 to 12 are proposed as ordinary resolutions, which require a simple majority of the Shareholders and duly appointed proxies attending the meeting and voting on a show of hands to vote in favour (excluding any votes that are withheld) or, if a poll is demanded, a simple majority of the total voting rights cast on the relevant resolution (excluding any votes that are withheld) to be in favour.
Resolution 13 is proposed as a special resolution and Resolution 14 is proposed as an extraordinary resolution, both of which require not less than 75 per cent of the Shareholders and duly appointed proxies attending the meeting and voting on a show of hands to vote in favour (excluding any votes that are withheld) or, if a poll is demanded, not less than 75 per cent of the total voting rights cast on the relevant resolution (excluding any votes that are withheld) to be in favour.
Shareholders are requested to submit proxies electronically for the 2025 Annual General Meeting, using the Investor Centre web browser at https://uk.investorcentre.mpms.mufg.com/, the CREST electronic proxy appointment service, Proxymity or the Investor Centre app. To be valid, the proxy must be received by MUFG Corporate Markets, as soon as possible and, in any event, not later than 1.00 p.m. on 1 August 2025.
Alternatively, Shareholders may request a hard copy Form of Proxy from our Registrars, MUFG Corporate Markets, and should return this to PXS 1, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL no later than 1.00 p.m. on 1 August 2025.
The lodging of a proxy will not prevent you from attending the 2025 Annual General Meeting and voting in person if you wish.
If you have any queries relating to submission of proxies or would like to request a hard copy Form of Proxy, please contact MUFG Corporate Markets, either:
MUFG Corporate Markets can only provide information regarding how to submit proxies and cannot provide you with investment or tax advice.
The Board considers that the proposals and subjects of the Resolutions are in the best interests of Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, the Board unanimously recommends Shareholders to vote in favour of the Resolutions. Those Directors who own shares in the Company intend to vote in favour of the Resolutions in respect of their own beneficial holdings (totalling 0.052 per cent in aggregate of the Ordinary Shares in issue, excluding shares held in treasury).
You are requested to submit proxies electronically using the Investor Centre web browser at https://uk.investorcentre.mpms. mufg.com/, the CREST electronic proxy appointment service, Proxymity or the Investor Centre app whether or not you intend to attend the 2025 Annual General Meeting.
Yours faithfully,
Melanie Gee Chair Syncona Limited
(A registered closed-ended collective investment scheme regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and incorporated as a non-cellular company limited by shares under the laws of Guernsey with registration number 55514) (the 'Company').
NOTICE is hereby given that the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the offices of Citco Fund Services (Guernsey) Limited, Frances House, Sir William Place, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1GX on 5 August 2025 at 1.00 p.m. to consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions which will be proposed as ordinary resolutions, a special resolution and an extraordinary resolution as set out below.
To be proposed as ordinary resolutions:
To be proposed as a special resolution:
To be proposed as an extraordinary resolution:
By order of the Board,
Dated 2 July 2025
Registered Office Frances House, PO Box 273, Sir William Place, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3RD, Channel Islands
CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the 2025 Annual General Meeting and any adjournment(s) thereof by using the procedures, and to the address, described in the CREST manual (available via www.euroclear.com) subject to the provisions of the Company's Articles of Association. 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.
In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK and International Limited's ('Euroclear') specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST manual. The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy, must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent (ID RA10) by 1.00 p.m. on 1 August 2025. 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 applications host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee through other means. CREST
members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service provider(s) should note that Euroclear 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 proxy 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 connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors 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 proxy instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 34 of the Uncertificated Securities (Guernsey) Regulations 20.
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