Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Aug 11, 2025
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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Ferrexpo plc 2025 Notice of General Meeting

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If you have sold or transferred all of your shares in Ferrexpo plc, please send this document and accompanying Form of Proxy at once either to the purchaser or transferee, or to the person who arranged the sale or transfer, so that they can pass these documents to the person who now holds the shares.
Registered in England and Wales Company number: 5432915
55 St James's Street London SW1A 1LA
11 August 2025
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 22 May 2025, Vitalii Lisovenko, an Independent Non-executive Director, did not receive the requisite votes required for re-appointment by independent shareholders.
As stated in the Company's Annual General Meeting Notice dated 10 April 2025 and under UK Listing Rule 6.2.9R, when a resolution to re-elect an Independent Director has not been passed by both a majority of the independent shareholders (i.e. shareholders of the Company who are entitled to vote on the election of Directors and who are not controlling shareholders) and a majority of all shareholders (including the controlling shareholders), the Company may put the matter to a second vote of all shareholders, to be held between 90 and 120 days after the Annual General Meeting. Pending the second vote, the relevant Director is deemed to have been re-elected to the Board of the Company for the period from the date of the Annual General Meeting until the earlier of: (a) the conclusion of any second vote; (b) the date 120 days after the Annual General Meeting; and (c) the date of any announcement by the Board that it does not intend to hold a second vote. If the Independent Director's re-election is approved by a majority vote of all shareholders voting at the second General Meeting, the Director will then be re-elected until the next Annual General Meeting.
This is the final time Mr Lisovenko will stand for re-election since he was appointed in 2016 and in November 2025 will have served nine years as an Independent Non-executive Director and will not stand for re-election at the 2026 Annual General Meeting.
The Board now intends to hold a second vote for shareholders to vote on the re-election of Vitalii Lisovenko. As noted above, this resolution must be approved by a majority of all shareholders voting at the meeting (and in accordance with the UK Listing Rules there is no requirement for approval by a separate majority of the independent shareholders).
The General Meeting at which the second vote will be held will take place at 11.00 am on Thursday 11 September 2025 at the offices of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Exchange House, Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EG (the "General Meeting").
Shareholders will be able to join and participate in the General Meeting in person. Given the nature of this meeting, and the recent engagement opportunity for shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, it is expected that only one of the Directors of the Company will attend the General Meeting (to formally chair the meeting).
To ask a question on the business of the General Meeting prior to the meeting, shareholders are invited to submit their questions in advance by e-mail to: [email protected] marked for the attention of the Company Secretariat by Thursday 4 September 2025. I strongly encourage you to submit any questions in advance of the meeting.
Your participation and votes matter. I encourage your participation by submitting your votes by proxy form ahead of the General Meeting or voting online in advance or at the General Meeting. Shareholders are advised to appoint the Chair of the meeting as their proxy.
To vote by proxy, I would ask you to complete, sign and return the enclosed Form of Proxy to register your vote.
To Vote online before the meeting, I would ask you to submit your proxy electronically by logging on to the website www.shareview.co.uk, and logging into your Shareview Portfolio. If you have not yet registered for a Shareview Portfolio, go to www.shareview.co.uk and enter the requested information. CREST members may also choose to use the CREST voting service in accordance with the procedures set out in the notes on page 7. Institutional investors may be able to appoint a proxy electronically via the Proxymity platform in accordance with the procedures set out in the notes on page 7.
The deadline for the receipt of proxy appointments and votes is 11.00 am on Tuesday 9 September 2025.
Voting on the resolution will be held by way of a poll and the voting results will be announced through a Regulatory Information Service and will be published on our website as soon as practicable after the General Meeting.
The formal Notice of General Meeting (the "Notice") is attached to this letter. The Notice contains the resolution to be proposed at the General Meeting together with explanatory notes on the resolution provided on pages 4 and 5 of this document.
The Board considers that the resolution described in the Notice is likely to promote the success of the Company and is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. The Directors recommend that shareholders vote in favour of the resolution, as they intend to do in respect of their own shareholdings.
Thank you for your continued support.
Yours sincerely,
Lucio Genovese Executive Chair
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a General Meeting of Ferrexpo plc (the "Company") will be held at 11.00 am on Thursday 11 September 2025 at the offices of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Exchange House, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EG to transact the following business:
To consider and, if thought fit, pass Resolution 1 as an ordinary resolution.
By order of the Board
Mark Gregory Group Company Secretary 11 August 2025
Resolution 1 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution and will be passed if more than 50% of shareholders' votes cast are in favour.
As explained in the Letter from the Executive Chair, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 22 May 2025, Vitalii Lisovenko did not receive the requisite votes required for re-appointment by independent shareholders and the purpose of the General Meeting is to hold a second vote for shareholders to vote on the re-election of Mr Lisovenko.
The Board has previously determined that Mr Lisovenko is independent for the purpose of the 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code (the "Code"). Mr Lisovenko was therefore proposed as an Independent Director at the 2025 AGM.
Mr Lisovenko's biography is summarised at the end of these explanatory notes and appears on page 103 of the 2024 Annual Report. As detailed in the Annual Report, the performance of Mr Lisovenko has been formally evaluated, and the Board believes that Mr Lisovenko continues to be effective and to demonstrate commitment to his role.
In accordance with provision 18 of the Code a summary of the skills, experience and contribution of Mr Lisovenko, which in the Board's view illustrates why his contribution is, and continues to be, important to the Company's long-term sustainable success, can be found together with a biography at the end of these explanatory notes.
Because the Company has a controlling shareholder (i.e. a shareholder which controls more than 30% of the votes at a General Meeting of the Company), under UK Listing Rule 10.6.16R this Notice is required to state certain information concerning any Independent Director proposed for re-election, and under UK Listing Rule 6.2.9R such re-election must on this occasion be approved by a majority vote of the shareholders as a whole.
If the resolution is approved by a majority of all shareholders voting at the meeting, at the conclusion of the General Meeting the full Board of the Company will comprise five Directors, that is the Executive Chair, one Executive Director, three Independent Non-executive Directors, being:
The UK Listing Rule requirements for companies with a controlling shareholder also require (in UK Listing Rule 10.6.16R) additional disclosures about the independent director's relationships, independence, effectiveness and selection process. This information is set out below in relation to Mr Lisovenko.
The Company has received confirmation from Mr Lisovenko that there are no existing or previous relationships, transactions or arrangements between Mr Lisovenko and the Company, its Directors, any controlling shareholder or any associate of a controlling shareholder.
The background and experience of Mr Lisovenko is set out in the biographical information on page 103 of the Annual Report. Pages 114 to 116 of the Annual Report mentions the conclusion of the 2024 Board performance evaluation process, which was that the Board and each of the Directors continued to function effectively during the year. The Board believes that Mr Lisovenko shows the proper commitment to his role, has sufficient time to undertake his responsibilities on behalf of the Company, and makes an effective contribution, drawing on his own expertise and experience.
As disclosed on page 108 of the Annual Report, the Board has carefully considered the guidance criteria on the independence of directors given in the Code, and believes that Mr Lisovenko remains independent in character and judgement, and that there are no circumstances which are likely to impair, or appear to impair, his independence.
As disclosed in the Nominations Committee Report on pages 126 to 129 of the Annual Report, the Board uses executive search consultants in the search for new Independent Directors. The preferred candidate is subsequently interviewed by each member of the Board before being appointed. The search consultants used in relation to the appointment of Mr Lisovenko (appointed November 2016) were Odgers Berndtson.
(A=Audit Committee, I=Committee of Independent Directors, N=Nominations Committee, R=Remuneration Committee)
Qualifications: PhD in Economics Appointed: 28 November 2016
Vitalii contributes to Ferrexpo plc over 25 years' experience in government finance. In 2005, he served as the head of the Trade and Economic Mission at the Ukrainian Embassy in London. He was an Associate Professor of Finance at the Kyiv State Economic University.
Vitalii brings extensive experience in the field of Ukrainian government finance together with a deep understanding of geopolitical developments in Ukraine which is valuable to the Company.
Vitalii was appointed Non-executive Director for workforce engagement on 18 February 2021. Given Vitalii is located in Ukraine and speaks Ukrainian, which is the language most widely spoken by the majority of our workforce, we are delighted that he agreed to take on this role.
Currently he serves as a Non-executive adviser to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, having previously served as an executive counsellor to the Minister of Finance. He also serves as a Non-executive Director of the Supervisory Board of National Depositary of Ukraine.
Previously, he was an Executive director of Ukreximbank (Ukraine), 2006–2010; an Executive director of Alfa Bank Ukraine, 2010–2014; a Nonexecutive director of Amsterdam Trade Bank, 2013–2014; and a Non-executive Director of Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (Greece) 2014-2019 and since 1994 held various positions in the Finance Ministry of Ukraine.
Vitalii is the Chair of the Committee of Independent Directors and a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. He was Senior Independent Director until February 2022. He is also Non-executive Director Designate for workforce engagement.
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Please note that if shareholders either provide the personal data of a proxy, or send a proxy to a meeting in their place, the Company requires the shareholder to communicate this privacy information to such proxy. The Company and any third party to which it discloses the data (including the Company's registrar) may process such data for the purposes of maintaining the Company's records, meeting management, managing corporate actions, fulfilling the Company's obligations to shareholders, fulfilling the Company's legal obligations and communicating with shareholders. The Company's lawful bases for the processing described above, for the purposes described above, is that the processing is necessary in order for the Company to: (1) fulfil its legitimate interests; and (2) comply with its legal obligations. All of this data will be processed in accordance with the Company's privacy notice which can be accessed at www.ferrexpo.com.
2025 Notice of General Meeting
2025 Notice of General Meeting
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