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DALAROO METALS LTD — Capital/Financing Update 2021
Sep 23, 2021
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Capital/Financing Update
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Employee Securities Incentive Plan – Terms
A summary of the key terms of the Plan is set out below. For the purposes of Listing 7.2 (Exception 13), the Company proposes to issue a maximum of 5,400,000 Securities under the Plan, equating to 10% of the total Shares on issue upon completion of the Offers.
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(a) ( Purpose of Plan ): The purpose of the Plan is to:
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(i) assist in the reward, retention and motivation of Eligible Participants;
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(ii) link the reward of Eligible Participants to Shareholder value creation; and
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(iii) align the interests of Eligible Participants with shareholders of the Group (being the Company and each of its Related Bodies Corporate), by providing an opportunity to Eligible Participants to receive an equity interest in the Company in the form of Awards (being securities exercisable for Shares, including options and performance rights).
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(a) ( Eligibility to participate ): An Eligible Participant means a person that:
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(i) is an "eligible participant" (as defined in ASIC Class Order [CO 14/1000] ) in relation to the Company or any Related Body Corporate (as defined in the Corporations Act)) (n.b. this includes Directors); and
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(ii) has been determined by the Board to be eligible to participate in the Plan from time to time.
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(b) ( Administration of Plan ): The Plan will be administered by the Board. The Board may exercise any power or discretion conferred on it by the Plan rules in its absolute discretion. The Board may delegate its powers and discretion.
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(c) ( Offers of Awards ): The Board may from time to time determine that an Eligible Participant may participate in the Plan and make an offer to that Eligible Participant to apply for Options or Performance Rights ( Awards ).
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(d) ( Applications for Awards ): An Eligible Participant who wishes to apply to participate in the Plan in response to an Offer must provide a completed application form to the Company. The Board may accept an application from an Eligible Participant in whole or in part. If an Eligible Participant is permitted in the Offer, the Eligible Participant may, by notice in writing to the Board, nominate a party in whose favour the Eligible Participant wishes to renounce the invitation in order for that nominee to be granted the Awards the subject of the Offer.
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(e) ( Grant of Awards ): The Company will, to the extent that it has accepted a duly completed application, grant the Participant the relevant number of Awards, subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Offer, the Plan rules and any ancillary documentation required.
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(f) ( Terms of Awards ): Each 'Award' represents a right to acquire one or more Shares (for example, under an option or performance right), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan. Prior to an Award being exercised, a Participant does not have any interest (legal, equitable or otherwise) in any Share the subject of the Award by virtue of holding the Award.
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(g) ( Vesting of Awards ): Any vesting conditions applicable to the grant of Awards will be described in the Offer. If all the vesting conditions are satisfied and/or otherwise waived by the Board, a vesting notice will be sent to the Participant by the Company informing them that the relevant Awards have vested. Unless and until the vesting
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notice is issued by the Company, the Awards will not be considered to have vested. For the avoidance of doubt, if the vesting conditions relevant to an Award are not satisfied and/or otherwise waived by the Board, that Award will lapse.
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(h) ( Delivery of Shares ): As soon as practicable after the valid exercise of an Award by a Participant, the Company will issue or cause to be transferred to that Participant the number of Shares to which the Participant is entitled under the Plan rules and issue a substitute certificate for any remaining unexercised Awards held by that Participant.
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(i) ( Exercise of Awards ): In the case of an Award which is an Option, to exercise an Award, the Participant must deliver a signed notice of exercise and, subject to a cashless exercise of Awards (see below), pay the exercise price (if any) to or as directed by the Company, at any time prior to the earlier of any date specified in the vesting notice and the expiry date as set out in the invitation. In the case of an Award which is a Performance Right, following the issue of a Vesting Notice, a vested Performance Right will automatically be exercised within the period specified by the Board in the relevant Offer.
The Participant may elect not to be required to provide payment of the exercise price for the number of Awards specified in a notice of exercise, but that on exercise of those Awards the Company will transfer or issue to the Participant that number of Shares as are equal in value to the difference between the total Exercise Price otherwise payable for the Awards on the Awards being exercised and the then market value of Shares at the time of exercise (determined as the volume weighted average of the prices at which Shares were traded on the ASX during the 5 trading-day period immediately preceding the exercise date) calculated in accordance with the following formula:
S = A x (MSP – EP) / MSP
Where:
S = Number of Shares to be issued on exercise of the Awards;
A = Number of Awards;
- MSP = Market value of Shares (calculated using the volume weighted average price (as that term is defined in the Listing Rules) at which Shares were traded on the ASX during the 5 trading day-period immediately preceding the exercise date); and
EP = Exercise Price.
If the difference between the total Exercise Price otherwise payable for the Awards on the Awards being exercised and the then market value of Shares at the time of exercise (calculated in accordance with the formula above) is zero or negative, then a holder will not be entitled to use the Cashless Exercise Facility.
- ( Restrictions on dealing ): A Participant may not sell, transfer, assign, grant a security interest over, option, swap, alienate or otherwise deal with an Award that has been granted to them.
The Board may impose a restriction on dealing with Shares allocated on exercise or vesting of an Award. The Board may implement any procedure it considers appropriate to ensure the compliance by the Participant with this restriction, including the imposition of a holding lock or requiring that Shares be held in trust on behalf of the Participant.
(j) ( Forfeiture of Awards ): Where a Participant who holds Awards ceases to be an Eligible Participant or becomes insolvent, all unvested Awards will automatically be
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forfeited by the Participant, unless the Board otherwise determines in its discretion to permit some or all of the Awards to vest. Where the Board determines that a Participant has acted fraudulently or dishonestly, or wilfully breached his or her duties to the Group, the Board may in its discretion deem all unvested Awards held by that Participant to have been forfeited.
Unless the Board otherwise determines, or as otherwise set out in the Plan rules:
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(i) any Awards which have not yet vested will be forfeited immediately on the date that the Board determines (acting reasonably and in good faith) that any applicable vesting conditions have not been met or cannot be met by the relevant date; and
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(ii) any Awards which have not yet vested will be automatically forfeited on the expiry date specified in the invitation.
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(k) ( Change of control ): If a change of control event occurs in relation to the Company, or the Board determines that such an event is likely to occur, the Board may in its absolute discretion determine that:
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(i) all or a specified number of a Participant's unvested Awards are deemed to have vested;
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(ii) all or a specified number of a Participant's Options may be exercised for a period specified by the Board, and if not exercised within that period, will lapse;
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(iii) dealing restrictions or any other terms which apply to the Award cease to apply; and/or
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(iv) dealing restrictions which apply to Shares allocated on the vesting of or exercise of an Award (as applicable) cease to apply.
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(l) ( Rights ): All Shares issued under the Plan, or issued or transferred to a Participant upon the valid exercise of an Award, will rank equally in all respects with the Shares of the same class. A Participant will be entitled to any dividends declared and distributed by the Company on the Shares and may participate in any dividend reinvestment plan operated by the Company in respect of Shares. A Participant may exercise any voting rights attaching to Shares.
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(m) ( Adjustment for capital reconstructions ): If there is a reorganisation of the issued share capital of the Company (including any subdivision, consolidation, reduction, return or cancellation of such issued capital of the Company), the rights of each Participant holding Awards will be changed to the extent necessary to comply with the Listing Rules applicable to a reorganisation of capital at the time of the reorganisation.
If Shares are issued by the Company by way of bonus issue (other than an issue in lieu of dividends or by way of dividend reinvestment), the holder of Awards is entitled, upon exercise of the Awards, to receive an allotment of as many additional Shares as would have been issued to the holder if the holder held Shares equal in number to the Shares in respect of which the Awards are exercised.
Unless otherwise determined by the Board, a holder of Awards does not have the right to participate in a pro rata issue of Shares made by the Company or sell renounceable rights.
- (n) ( Participation in new issues ): There are no participation rights or entitlements inherent in the Awards and holders are not entitled to participate in any new issue of Shares of the Company during the currency of the Awards without exercising the Awards.
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- (o) ( Amendment of Plan ): Subject to the following paragraph, the Board may at any time amend any provisions of the Plan rules, including the terms upon which any Awards have been granted under the Plan and determine that any amendments to the Plan rules be given retrospective effect, immediate effect or future effect.
No amendment to any provision of the Plan rules may be made if the amendment materially reduces the rights of any Participant as they existed before the date of the amendment, other than an amendment introduced primarily for the purpose of complying with legislation or to correct manifest error or mistake, amongst other things, or is agreed to in writing by all Participants.
- (p) ( Term of Plan ): The Plan continues in operation until the Board decides to end it. The Board may from time to time suspend the operation of the Plan for a fixed period or indefinitely, and may end any suspension. If the Plan is terminated or suspended for any reason, that termination or suspension must not prejudice the accrued rights of the Participants.
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