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Ching Lee Holdings Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025

Jul 24, 2025

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.

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Ching Lee Holdings Limited

正利控股有限公司

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock code: 3728)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of Ching Lee Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Shop 6A, 1/F, China Hong Kong City, 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 2 September 2025 at 10:00 a.m. for the following purposes:

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

As ordinary business to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments, the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions of the Company:

  1. To receive, consider and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements, the report of the directors and the independent auditor's report of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2025.

  2. (a) (i) To re-elect Mr. Ng Choi Wah as an executive director of the Company.

(ii) To re-elect Ms. Ng Wa Ying as an executive director of the Company.

(iii) To re-elect Dr. Wai Yin Wah Agnes as an independent non-executive director of the Company.

(iv) To re-elect Mr. Chau Kam Wing Donald (who has served the Company for more than nine years) as an independent non-executive director of the Company.

(v) To re-elect Dr. Wai Wing Hong Onyx (who has served the Company for more than nine years) as an independent non-executive director of the Company.


(b) To authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix the remuneration of the directors of the Company.

  1. To re-appoint BDO Limited as the independent auditor of the Company and authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix their remuneration.

  2. "THAT:

(a) a general and unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the directors of the Company to allot, issue and deal with shares of the Company or securities convertible into such shares or options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for any such shares or such convertible securities (including the power to make or grant any offers, agreements or options which would or might require securities to be issued, allotted or disposed) subject to a restriction that the aggregate number of securities allotted or agreed to be allotted, otherwise than pursuant to:

  1. a Rights Issue (as defined below);
  2. any scrip dividend schemes or similar arrangements providing for the allotment and issue of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares of the Company in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company;
  3. the exercise of options granted under any share option scheme or other similar arrangement adopted by the Company for the grant or issue to the employees, officers, directors and/or any of its subsidiaries and/or other eligible participants specified thereunder of options to subscribe for or rights to acquire shares of the Company;
  4. the exercise of any right of subscription or conversion under the terms of any bonds, warrants or debentures which may be issued by the Company or any securities which are convertible into shares of the Company; or
  5. a specific authority granted by the shareholders of the Company in general meeting,

shall not exceed 20% of the number of the issued shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution;

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(b) the aforesaid mandate shall remain in effect until (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles of Association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; or (iii) the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting, whichever occurs first; and

(c) for the purpose of this resolution, “Right Issue” means an offer of shares of the Company or offer or issue of options, warrants or other securities giving rights to subscribe for shares of the Company, open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of shares of the Company on the register of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusion or other arrangements as the directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any legal or practical problems, restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in any territory outside Hong Kong) and an offer, allotment or issue of shares by way of rights shall be construed accordingly.”

  1. “THAT:

(a) a general and unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the directors of the Company authorising them to exercise all powers of the Company to repurchase the Shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) or on any other stock exchange recognised for this purpose by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of the Securities on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange or of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time, shares of the Company for a total number not exceeding 10% of the number of the issued shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution; and

(b) the aforesaid mandate shall remain in effect until (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; or (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles of Association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; or (iii) the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting, whichever occurs first.”

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  1. “THAT:

conditional upon the ordinary resolutions no. 4 and no. 5 as set out in the notice convening the AGM being duly passed (with or without amendments), the general and unconditional mandate granted to the directors of the Company to allot, issue and deal with shares of the Company pursuant to the resolution set out in the said resolution no. 4 be and is hereby extended by the addition to the number of shares of the Company which may be issued, allotted and dealt with or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be issued, allotted and dealt with by the directors of the Company pursuant to such general mandate of an amount representing the number of issued shares of the Company repurchased by the Company pursuant to the general mandate referred to in the said resolution no. 5 (up to a maximum number equivalent to 10% of the number of the issued shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of the said resolution no. 5).”

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

As special business to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments, the following resolution as special resolution of the Company:

  1. “THAT:

(a) the articles of association of the Company be amended in the manner as set out in the circular of the Company dated 24 July 2025 (the “Circular”) be approved;

(b) the amended and restated articles of association of the Company in the form of the document marked “A” and produced to the AGM and for the purpose of identification initialed by the chairman of the AGM, which consolidates all the proposed amendments mentioned in the Circular, be approved and adopted as the amended and restated articles of association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of the existing articles of association of the Company with immediate effect after the close of the AGM;

(c) the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all things necessary to implement the adoption of the amended and restated articles of association of the Company.”

By order of the Board
Ching Lee Holdings Limited
Ng Choi Wah
Chairman

Hong Kong, 24 July 2025


Notes:

  1. A member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the AGM shall be entitled to appoint another person as his/her proxy to attend and vote in his/her stead. A member who is the holder of two or more shares of the Company may appoint more than one proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude a member of the Company from attending the AGM and voting in person should he/she so wish. In such event, his/her form of proxy will be deemed to be revoked.

  2. A form of proxy for the AGM is enclosed. In order to be valid, the form of proxy together with the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, shall be deposited at the Company's Hong Kong branch share registrar, Tricor Investor Services Limited at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong, not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the AGM or any adjourned meeting.

  3. Where there are joint registered holders of any share of the Company, any one of such persons may vote at the AGM, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he/she were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint registered holders be present at the AGM personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register of members of the Company in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.

  4. To ascertain the members' entitlement to attend and vote at the AGM, the register of members will be closed from Thursday, 28 August 2025 to Tuesday, 2 September 2025, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares of the Company can be registered. In order to be eligible to attend and vote at the meeting, all completed transfer forms, accompanied by the relevant share certificates, shall be lodged with the Company's Hong Kong share registrar, Tricor Investor Services Limited at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong for registration not later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 27 August 2025. The record date for the attending and voting at the meeting is Tuesday, 2 September 2025.

  5. An explanatory statement containing further details regarding resolution numbered 5 above is set out in Appendix I to the Circular.

  6. Details of the directors proposed to be re-elected as directors of the Company are set out in Appendix II to the Circular.

  7. Details of the proposed amendments to the articles of association of the Company are set out in Appendix III to the Circular.

  8. Members of the Company or their proxies shall produce documents of their proof of identity when attending the AGM.

  9. If typhoon signal number 8 or above, or a "black" rainstorm warning is in effect any time after 7:00 a.m. on the date of the AGM, the meeting will be postponed. The Company will post an announcement on the website of Company at www.chingleeholdings.com and on the HKExnews website of the Stock Exchange at www.hkexnews.hk to notify shareholders of the Company of the date, time and place of the rescheduled meeting.

As at the date of this notice, the executive directors are Mr. Ng Choi Wah, Mr. Lam Ka Fai and Ms. Ng Wa Ying, the non-executive director is Mr. Tong Hin Sum Paul and the independent non-executive directors are Dr. Wai Wing Hong Onyx, Mr. Chau Kam Wing Donald and Dr. Wai Yin Wah Agnes.

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