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Hiscox Limited — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025
Mar 17, 2025
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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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ATTENDANCE CARD HISCOX LTD – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
To be held at Chesney House, 96 Pitts Bay Road, Pembroke HM 08, Bermuda at 12.30 pm (local time) on Thursday, 15 May 2025. For convenience, Shareholders may view a webcast of the AGM and ask questions via a video link at Peel Hunt LLP's office, 100 Liverpool Street, London EC2A 2AT on 15 May 2025 at 4.30 pm (BST). If you wish to watch the webcast in London, please email [email protected] on or before 8 May 2025 to enable us to arrange access to Peel Hunt's offices. Note that the webcast is for informational purposes and Shareholders will not be able to vote at the AGM via the video link so should cast their votes in advance – see the Notice of Annual General Meeting for further details.
Signature of person attending
FORM OF PROXY HISCOX LTD – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS
I/We of
being a member of the Company hereby appoint the Chair of the meeting or (see note 1)
as my/our proxy at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at 12.30 pm (local time) on Thursday, 15 May 2025 and at any adjournment thereof. I/we have indicated with an 'X' how I/we wish my/our votes to be cast on the following resolutions: Please tick here if this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being made:
| RESOLUTIONS Please mark 'X' to indicate how you wish to vote |
For | Against | withheld Vote |
For | Against | withheld Vote |
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| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. |
To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 To approve the Directors remuneration report To increase the maximum fees payable to Directors To approve the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2024 To approve the 2025 Scrip Dividend Scheme To authorise the Directors to capitalise sums in connection with the 2025 Scrip Dividend Scheme To appoint Lynne Biggar as a Director To appoint June Yee Felix as a Director To appoint Jane Guyett as a Director 10. To re-appoint Beth Boucher as a Director 11. To re-appoint Paul Cooper as a Director 12. To re-appoint Donna DeMaio as a Director |
its own shares* proposed as special resolutions. |
21. To authorise the Directors to allot shares 22. To dis-apply pre-emption rights 23. To dis-apply pre-emption rights on an additional 10% of shares 24. To authorise the Company to purchase All resolutions will be proposed as ordinary resolutions, save for those identified with an asterisk (*) which will be |
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| 13. To re-appoint Michael Goodwin as a Director 14. To re-appoint Thomas Huerlimann as a Director 15. To re-appoint Hamayou Akbar Hussain as a Director 16. To re-appoint Colin Keogh as a Director 17. To re-appoint Constantinos Miranthis as a Director 18. To re-appoint Joanne Musselle as a Director 19. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company 20. To authorise the Audit Committee to set the auditors' remuneration |
Signature Date |
A corporation must execute the Form of Proxy under either its common seal or the hand of a duly authorised officer or attorney. |
NOTES
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- If you wish to appoint a person other than the Chair of the meeting, please insert the name of chosen proxy holder in the space provided. If the proxy is being appointed in relation to less than your full voting entitlement, please enter in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. If left blank your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement (or if this proxy form has been issued in respect of a designated account for a shareholder, the full voting entitlement for that designated account).
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- To appoint more than one proxy, additional proxy forms may be obtained by contacting the registrars by visiting www.shareview.co.uk, by telephone on +44 (0)333 207 5965* or you may photocopy this form. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by ticking the box provided if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. All forms must be signed and should be returned together in the reply-paid envelope provided.
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- Unless otherwise indicated on this Form of Proxy the proxy will vote as he/she thinks fit or, at his/her discretion, abstain from voting on any business of the meeting. On any other business which may properly come before the Annual General Meeting, the proxy will act at his/her discretion.
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- To be valid, the Form of Proxy (and the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed) must arrive not later than 48 hours before the time of the meeting at Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6DA, United Kingdom. You may also deliver by hand to Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6DA, United Kingdom during usual business hours.
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- The 'Vote Withheld' option is to enable a shareholder to abstain on any particular resolution. Such a vote is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
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- Entitlement to attend and vote at the meeting and the number of votes which may be cast thereat will be determined by reference to the Register of Members of the Company at close of business 6.30 pm (BST) on the day which is two days before the day of the meeting or adjourned meeting. Changes to entries on the Register of Members after that time shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the meeting.
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- In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders. For this purpose seniority is established by the order in which the names stand in the register in respect of the joint holding.
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- Any alterations to this Form of Proxy should be initialled.
*Lines open 8.30 am to 5.30 pm (BST) Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays in England and Wales. Please ensure the country code is used if calling from outside the UK.