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Dalata Hotel GP — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2017
May 10, 2017
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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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Dalata Hotel Group PLC
Resolutions Passed at our Annual General Meeting held on 10 May 2017
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions:
- To receive and consider the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 together with the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon and a review of the affairs of the Company.
- To receive and consider the Director's Report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2016.
- To receive and consider the Remuneration Policy of the Company that is set out in pages 80 to 85 of the 2016 Annual Report.
- By separate resolutions, to re-appoint the following Directors who retire in accordance with the Articles of Association and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-appointment:
(a) John Hennessy;
(b) Patrick McCann;
(c) Stephen McNally;
(d) Dermot Crowley;
(e) Robert Dix;
(f) Alf Smiddy; and
(g) Margaret Sweeney. - To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors.
- That
(a) the rules of the Dalata Hotel Group plc 2017 Long Term Incentive Plan in the form produced to the meeting and initialled by the Chairman of the meeting for the purposes of identification (the "Plan"), the principal terms of which are summarised in the Appendix to this Notice of Meeting, be and are hereby approved and the Directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to adopt the Plan and do all acts and things which they may, in their discretion, consider necessary or expedient to give effect to the Plan; and
(b) the Directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to adopt further plans based on the Plan but modified to take account of local tax, exchange control or securities laws in overseas territories, provided that any shares made available under such further plans are treated as counting against any limits on individual or overall participation in the Plan. - The Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014, to exercise all of the powers of the Company to allot and issue all relevant securities of the Company (within the meaning of Section 1021 of the Companies Act 2014) up to an aggregate nominal amount of €603,790 representing 33% of
the aggregate nominal value of the issued share capital of the Company as at 27th March 2017 (excluding treasury shares). The authority hereby conferred shall commence at the time of passing this Resolution and shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution or at midnight on the date which is 15 calendar months after the date of passing this Resolution (whichever is earlier) unless and to the extent that such power is renewed, revoked, or extended prior to such date; 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 an offer or agreement as if the power conferred by this Resolution had not expired.
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions as special resolutions:
- Subject to and conditional upon Resolution 7 of the Notice of AGM being passed and in addition and without prejudice to or limitation of any power and authority granted under Resolution 9 of the Notice of AGM, pursuant to Sections 1022 and 1023(3) of the Companies Act 2014, the Directors be and are hereby empowered to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023(1) of the Companies Act 2014) for cash pursuant to the authority to allot relevant securities conferred on the Directors by Resolution 7 of this Notice of AGM as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to any such allotment, such power to be effective from the time of passing of Resolution and shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution or at midnight on the date which is 15 calendar months after the date of passing this Resolution (whichever is earlier) unless and to the extent that such power is renewed, revoked, or extended prior to such date but in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired; and such power being limited to:
(a) the allotment of equity securities in connection with any offer of securities, open for a period fixed by the Directors, by way of rights issue, open offer or other invitation to or in favour of the holders of ordinary shares and/or any persons having a right to subscribe for equity securities in the capital of the Company (including, without limitation, any persons entitled or who may become entitled to acquire equity securities under any of the Company's share option scheme or share incentive plans then in force) where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders are proportional (as nearly as may be reasonably be) to the respective number of ordinary shares held by them and subject thereto the allotment in any case by way of placing or otherwise of any securities not taken up in such issue or offer to such persons as the Directors may determine; and generally, subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to legal or practical problems (including dealing with any fractional entitlements and/or arising in respect of any oversees shareholders) under the laws of, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in, any territory; and/or
(b) the allotment of equity securities up to a maximum aggregate nominal value of €91,483, which represents 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as at the close of business on 27th March 2017; and/or
(c) allotment of equity securities pursuant to any employee share scheme of the Company.
- Subject to and conditional upon Resolution 7 of the Notice of AGM being passed and in addition and without prejudice to or limitation of any power and authority granted under Resolution 8 of the Notice of AGM, pursuant to Sections 1022 and 1023(3) of the Companies Act 2014, the
Directors be and are hereby empowered to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 1023(1) of the Companies Act 2014) for cash pursuant to the authority to allot relevant securities conferred on the Directors by Resolution 7 of this Notice of AGM as if Section 1022(1) of the Companies Act 2014 did not apply to any such allotment, such power to be effective from the time of passing this Resolution and shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution or midnight on the date which is 15 calendar months after the date of passing this Resolution (whichever is earlier) unless and to the extent that such power is renewed, revoked, or extended prior to such date but in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired; and such power being limited to:
(a) the allotment of equity securities up to a maximum aggregate nominal value of €91,483, which represents 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as at close of business on 27th March 2017; and
(b) used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within six 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 the Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group and in effect prior to the date of this Notice of AGM.
- That, subject to and in accordance with Section 1102 of the Companies Act 2014, the Directors of the Company be and are hereby generally and 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 (as defined in the articles of association of the Company). The authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company held after the date of the passing of this resolution unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting.