Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • May 2, 2019
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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Cobra Resources plc (England & Wales Company No. 11170056) Registered Office Suite A, 6 Honduras Street London EC1Y 0TH United Kingdom E: [email protected]. W: www.cobraresourcesplc.com
When : 30 May 2019 at 10:30 a.m.
If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own personal financial advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant, fund manager or other appropriate independent financial 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 financial adviser. If you have sold or otherwise transferred all your shares in Cobra Resources plc, you should at once forward this document and the accompanying proxy form to the purchaser or transferee, or to the bank or stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected, for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
Letter from the Board Notice of AGM and Resolutions to be proposed Notes Form of Proxy
Dispatch of this document 3 May 2019 Latest time and date for receipt of forms of proxy 10:30 a.m. on 28 May 2019 Annual General Meeting 10:30 a.m. on 30 May 2019
Your votes matter. If you cannot attend, please vote your shares by appointing a proxy. You can vote by returning the proxy instruction that you received with this document.
Dashwood House, Old Broad Street is accessible on public transport, being adjacent to Liverpool Street station. Take the exit for Old Broad Street. Bank Station is a five minute walk.
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Dear Shareholder,
I am writing to you with details of the Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") of Cobra Resources plc ('the Company') which will be held at the offices at Cooley (UK) LLP, 69 Old Broad Street, London EC2M 1QS, on 30 May 2019 at 10:30 a.m. The formal Notice of AGM is set out on page 5 of this document.
If you would like to vote on the proposed resolutions but cannot attend the AGM, you may appoint a proxy by completing the enclosed form of proxy (the "Form of Proxy") and returning it to our company secretary, London Registrars Ltd, at Suite A, 6 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH, as soon as possible. The Form of Proxy must be received by 10:30 a.m. on 28 May 2019, being 48 hours before the AGM (ignoring any part of a day that is not a working day).
Resolutions 1 to 8 (inclusive) will be proposed as ordinary resolutions.
Resolutions 1 to 7 (inclusive) relate to the receipt of the Company's annual report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2018 (the "2018 Annual Report and Accounts"), the directors' ("Directors") remuneration report (the "Directors' Remuneration Report"), the re-election of Directors who retire by rotation, the reappointment of PKF Littlejohn LLP as auditors of the Company and the authorisation of the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.
Resolution 8 relates to the authorisation for the directors to allot equity securities in the Company up to a maximum nominal value of £1,000,000. This authority will expire on the earlier of 15 months after the passing of the resolution or on the conclusion of the AGM of the Company to be held in 2020.
Resolutions 9 to 11 (inclusive) are proposed as special resolutions.
Resolutions 9 and 10 deal with the disapplication of shareholder statutory pre-emption rights in order to permit the Directors to allot equity securities in the Company for cash without first having to offer them to the Company's existing shareholders. These authorities will expire on the earlier of 15 months after the passing of this resolution or on the conclusion of the AGM of the Company to be held in 2020.
Resolution 11 is a procedural matter to ensure that the Company has the power to call a general meeting which is not an AGM on 14 days' notice.
The Directors consider all the proposals to be considered at the AGM to be in the best interests of the Company and to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its shareholders as a whole. The Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of all the proposed resolutions.
Yours faithfully
Non-Executive Director, on behalf of the Board of Directors.
Gregory George Hancock, Non-Executive Director (Chairman) Rolf Gerritsen, Non-Executive Director Kenneth Frank Watson, Independent Non-Executive Director, resigned 8 April 2019 Craig Moulton, Director, appointed 26 March 2019
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass Resolutions 1 to 8 (inclusive) as ordinary resolutions:
and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of any territory or any other matter, such authorities to expire at the conclusion of the Company's next AGM after this resolution is passed or, if earlier, 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers or agreements before the authority expires which would or might require shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted after the authority expires, and so that the
Directors may allot shares or grant Rights in pursuance of any such offer or agreement notwithstanding that the authority conferred by this Resolution has expired.
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass resolutions 9 to 11 as special resolutions:
and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of any territory or any other matter; and
ii. to the allotment (otherwise than in the circumstances set out in paragraph (i) of this Resolution) of equity securities or sale of treasury shares pursuant to the authority granted by paragraph (i) of Resolution 8 up to an aggregate nominal amount of £1,000,000,
such power to expire at the conclusion of the Company's next AGM after this Resolution is passed or, if earlier, 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, but so that the Company may make offers or agreements before the power expires which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the power expires and so that the Directors may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) in pursuance of any such offer or agreement notwithstanding that the power conferred by this authority has expired.
ii. used only for purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within 6 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 on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice, including in connection with the Lady Alice Acquisition,
such power to expire at the conclusion of the Company's next AGM after this Resolution is passed or, if earlier, 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, but so that the Company may make offers or agreements before the power expires which would or might require equity securities (and/or treasury shares to be sold) to be allotted after the power expires and so that the Directors may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) in pursuance of any such offer or agreement notwithstanding that the power conferred by this authority has expired.
______________________ Peter Driver for London Registrars Ltd Company Secretary 3 May 2019
the Company's register of members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).
In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction") must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent, Link Asset Services (CREST Participant ID: RA10), no later than 48 hours, excluding any day that is not a business day, before the time appointed for the meeting. 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 agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsor or voting service provider, should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland 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 proxy instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider) to take 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 sponsor or voting service provider are referred in particular to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
13 Any corporation which is a member of the Company can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a member provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.
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