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AIB Group Plc — AGM Information 2025
May 1, 2025
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AGM Information
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RESOLUTIONS OF AIB GROUP PLC
(the "Company")
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 10 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday, 1 May 2025, the following Resolutions were passed: Resolutions 1 to 7 (inclusive), Resolution 13, and Resolution 14 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and Resolutions 8 to 12 (inclusive) were passed as Special Resolutions.
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
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- To consider the Directors' Remuneration Report as set out on pages 163 to 166 of the 2024 Annual Financial Report (Advisory Resolution).
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- That the Directors be and are hereby authorised pursuant to and in accordance with Section 1021(1) of the Companies Act 2014 (as amended) (the "Act"), in substitution for all existing such authorities, to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Act) up to an aggregate nominal amount of €485,091,369.79 during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expiring at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or at 5:00 pm (Irish time) on 31 July 2026 (whichever shall be earlier), provided that 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 Directors may allot relevant securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the authority hereby conferred had not expired.
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- That the transaction, substantially on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Directed Buyback Contract between the Company and the Minister for Finance (the "Transaction"), which constitutes a related party transaction for the purposes of the Act be and is hereby approved with such amendments, variations or waivers (provided such amendments, variations or waivers are not of a material nature) of the terms and conditions thereof as the directors of the Company shall, in their absolute discretion, think fit and, subject to the foregoing, that the directors be and are hereby authorised to take all necessary steps and to execute all documents and deeds as they may consider necessary, desirable or expedient to conclude, implement and give effect to the Transaction or in connection herewith.
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- That the establishment of the AIB Group (ROI) Save as You Earn Plan (the "ROI Plan") and AIB Group (UK) Save as You Earn Plan (the "UK Plan" and, together with the ROI Plan, the "SAYE Schemes") the principal features of which are summarised in Appendix 2 to the Chairman's Letter dated 31 March 2025 which accompanies this notice of Annual General Meeting, be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to:
- (i) do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient to effectively adopt, implement and operate the SAYE Schemes, including making
any amendments required by the Irish Revenue Commissioners or HM Revenue & Customs to the SAYE Schemes, in order to obtain or maintain formal Revenue approval or confirmation the plans meet legislative requirements; and/or
- (ii) make any such minor amendments to the rules of the SAYE Schemes to benefit the administration of the SAYE Schemes, to take account of legislative changes, or to obtain or maintain favourable tax treatment, exchange control or regulatory treatment for participants, the Company or any other member of the Group; and/or
- (iii) establish further savings-related share option schemes to operate in overseas territories that are governed by rules similar to the rules of the SAYE Schemes but modified to take account of applicable tax, social security, employment, company, exchange control, trust or securities (or any other relevant) law, regulation or practice, provided that: (a) all overseas plans are subject to the limitation on awards set out in the SAYE Schemes; (b) only employees of subsidiaries of the Company who are resident in (or otherwise subject to the tax laws of) the relevant territory are entitled to benefit under any overseas scheme; and (c) no employee has an entitlement to awards under any overseas scheme greater than the maximum entitlement of an eligible employee under the SAYE Schemes.
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
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- As separate resolutions:
- (a) That, subject to the passing of Resolution 7, the Directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 1023 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023 of the Act) for cash under the authority given by Resolution 7 as if sub-section (1) of Section 1022 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited:
- (i) to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue, open offer or other invitation to or in favour of the holders of Ordinary Shares of €0.625 each where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders are proportional (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of Ordinary Shares held by them (but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements that would otherwise arise or with legal or practical problems under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory, or otherwise howsoever); and
- (ii) to the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of €72,763,705.46,
during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expiring on the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or at 5:00 pm (Irish time) on 31 July 2026 (whichever shall be earlier), provided 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 Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
- (b) That, subject to the passing of Resolution 7, the Directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 1023 of the Act (and in addition to any authority granted under Resolution 8(a)) to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023 of the Act) for cash under the authority given by Resolution 8 as if sub-section (1) of Section 1022 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be:
- (i) limited to the allotment of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of €72,763,705.46; and
- (ii) used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within twelve months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Directors determine to be an acquisition or other capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles for the disapplication of preemption rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice of Annual General Meeting,
during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expiring on the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or at 5:00 pm (Irish time) on 31 July 2026 (whichever shall be earlier), provided 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 Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power hereby conferred had not expired.
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- That the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (as defined by Section 7 of the Act be and they are hereby generally authorised to make market purchases or overseas market purchases (each term as defined in Section 1072 of the Act), of shares of any class of the Company (the "Share" or "Shares") on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Directors may from time to time determine but subject to the provisions of the Act and to the following restrictions and provisions:
- (a) the maximum number of Shares authorised to be acquired pursuant to the terms of this Resolution shall be such number of Shares whose aggregate nominal value shall equal 10% of the aggregate nominal value of the issued share capital of the Company as at the close of business on the date of the passing of this Resolution;
- (b) the minimum price which may be paid for any Share shall be the nominal value of the Share;
- (c) the maximum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for any Share in the Company (a "Relevant Share") shall be the higher of:
- (i) 5% above the average of the closing quotation prices of a Relevant Share on Euronext Dublin for the five business days immediately preceding the day of purchase (and, in respect of any business day on which there shall be no dealing in such shares on Euronext Dublin, the price which is equal to (A) the mid-point between the high and low market guide prices in respect of such shares for that business day, or (B) if there shall be only one such market guide price so published, the market guide price so published; such prices shall be as published in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor
publication thereto or any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on Euronext Dublin)); and
- (ii) the technical standards stipulated by article 5(6) of Market Abuse Regulation 2014 (No. 596/2014) or any corresponding provision of any replacement legislation, being the value of a Relevant Share calculated on the basis of the higher of the price for:
- (a) the last independent trade of; and
- (b) the highest current independent bid for;
any number of Relevant Shares on the trading venue where the purchase pursuant to the authority conferred by this Resolution will be carried out.
If the means of providing the foregoing information as to dealings and prices by reference to which the maximum price is to be determined is altered or is replaced by some other means, then a maximum price shall be determined on the basis of the equivalent information published by the relevant authority in relation to dealings on Euronext Dublin or its equivalent; and
- (d) the authority hereby granted shall commence on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or at 5:00 pm (Irish time) on 31 July 2026 (whichever shall be earlier). The Company or any such subsidiary may before such expiry enter into a contract for the purchase of Shares which would or might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry and may complete any such contract as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
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- That, subject to the passing of Resolution 9, for the purposes of Sections 109 and/or 1078 of the Act (the re-issue price range at which any treasury shares (as defined in the Act) for the time being held by the Company may be re-issued (including by way of re-issue off market) shall be as follows:
- (a) the maximum price at which a treasury share may be re-issued off-market shall be an amount equal to 120% of the Appropriate Price; and
- (b) the minimum price at which a treasury share may be re-issued off-market shall be the nominal value of the share where such share is re-allotted under an employees' share scheme (as defined by Section 64 of the Act) and in all other circumstances shall be 95% of the Appropriate Price.
For the purposes of this resolution the expression "Appropriate Price" shall mean the average of the closing quotation prices of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the treasury share is re-issued, as published in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor publication thereto any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on the market in Ireland on which the Company's Ordinary Shares are from time to time admitted to trading) or if on any business day there shall be no dealing of Ordinary Shares on the trading venue or a closing price is not otherwise available the price which is equal to:
(i) the mid-point between the high and low market guide prices in respect of such shares for such business day as published in in the Daily Official List of Euronext Dublin (or any successor publication thereto any equivalent publication for securities admitted to trading on the market in Ireland on which the Company's Ordinary Shares are from time to time admitted to trading); or
(ii) if there shall be only one such market guide price so published, the market guide price so published.
The authority hereby conferred shall commence on the date of the passing of this Resolution and expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or at 5:00 pm (Irish time) on 31 October 2026 (whichever shall be the earlier) and is without prejudice or limitation to any other authority of the Company to re-issue treasury shares on-market.
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- That in accordance with Section 1102 of the Act and Articles 57 and 58 of the Articles of Association of the Company, the Directors of the Company be and are unconditionally authorised to call a general meeting, other than an annual general meeting or a meeting for the passing of a special resolution, on not less than 14 clear days' notice. The authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company held after the passing of this resolution unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting.
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- That the terms of the contract between the Company and the Minster for Finance (a copy of which has been produced to the meeting and has been made available for inspection at the Company's registered office from the date of the notice of this meeting to the date of this meeting) (the "Directed Buyback Contract") providing for an offmarket purchase (as defined by Section 1072 of the Act) from the Minister for Finance or his nominee of fully paid ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") on the terms and conditions set out in the Directed Buyback Contract, be and are hereby approved and authorised for the purposes of Section 1075 of the Act and the Company be and is hereby authorised to make such off-market purchase from the Minister for Finance or his nominee, provided that:
- (i) the authority hereby conferred shall, unless previously varied, revoked or renewed, expire at 11:59 pm (Irish time) on 8 May 2025; and
- (ii) where the Company concludes a contract to purchase Ordinary Shares pursuant to the authority hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority (which will or may be executed wholly or partly after such expiry), it may make a purchase of Ordinary Shares pursuant to such contract as if the authority had not expired.