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Meituan AGM Information 2021

May 21, 2021

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AGM Information

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.

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(A company controlled through weighted voting rights and incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability) (Stock code: 3690)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an annual general meeting of Meituan (the “ Company ”) will be held at Command Center of Meituan Beijing Office, Block A, Hengjiweiye Building, No. 4 Wang Jing East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. for the following purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing, with or without modifications, the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions or special resolution of the Company (unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used in this notice shall have the same meanings as those defined in the circulars of the Company dated May 24, 2021):

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

  1. To receive and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the reports of the Directors and independent auditor thereon.

  2. To re-elect Mr. Wang Huiwen as an executive Director.

  3. To re-elect Mr. Lau Chi Ping Martin as a non-executive Director.

  4. To re-elect Mr. Neil Nanpeng Shen as a non-executive Director.

  5. To authorize the Board to fix the remuneration of the Directors of the Company.

  6. To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modification the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

THAT

  • (a) subject to paragraph (c) below, a general unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the Directors of the Company, exercisable on their behalf by Mr. Wang Xing, during the Relevant Period (as defined in paragraph (d) below) to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional Class B Shares or securities convertible into Class B Shares, or options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for Class B Shares or such convertible securities of the Company (other than issuance of options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for additional Class B Shares or securities convertible into Class B Shares for cash consideration) and to make or grant offers, agreements or options (including any warrants, bonds, notes and debentures conferring any rights to subscribe for or otherwise receive Class B Shares) that would or might require the exercise of such powers;

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  • (b) the mandate in paragraph (a) above shall be in addition to any other authorization given to the Directors and shall authorize the Directors to make or grant offers, agreements and/or options during the Relevant Period that would or might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

  • (c) the total number of Class B Shares allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted and issued (whether pursuant to options or otherwise) in paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to:

  • (i) a Rights Issue (as defined in paragraph (d) below);

  • (ii) the grant or exercise of any options under any share option scheme of the Company or any other option, scheme or similar arrangements for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to the Directors, officers and/or employee of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries and/or other eligible participants specified thereunder of options to subscribe for Class B Shares or rights to acquire Class B Shares;

  • (iii) the vesting of RSUs granted pursuant to the Pre-IPO ESOP or granted or to be granted pursuant to the Post-IPO Share Award Scheme;

  • (iv) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment and issue of Shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on Shares of the Company in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company; and

  • (v) a specific authority granted by the Shareholders of the Company in general meeting,

shall not exceed 20% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the Shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of Shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution) and the said mandate shall be limited accordingly.

  • (d) for the purposes of this resolution:

Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this resolution until the earliest of:

  • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held by the Articles of Association of the Company or any applicable laws; and

  • (iii) the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders in general meeting.

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Rights Issue ” means an offer of Shares of the Company, or an offer or issue of warrants, options or other securities giving rights to subscribe for Shares of the Company, open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of Shares of the Company whose names appear on the register of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such Shares of the Company (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory applicable to the Company).”

  1. To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modification the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

THAT

  • (a) a general unconditional mandate be and is hereby given to the Directors of the Company, exercisable on their behalf by Mr. Wang Xing, during the Relevant Period (as defined in paragraph (b) below) to exercise all the powers of the Company to purchase its own Shares on the Stock Exchange or on any other stock exchange on which the securities of the Company may be listed and which is recognized by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, provided that the total number of Shares of the Company which may be purchased pursuant to this mandate shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution) and the said mandate shall be limited accordingly; and

  • (b) for the purposes of this resolution:

  • Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this resolution until the earliest of:

  • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles of Association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and

  • (iii) the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”

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  1. To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments, the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

THAT conditional upon the passing of resolutions set out in items 6 and 7 of the notice convening this meeting (the “ Notice ”), the general mandate referred to in the resolution set out in item 6 of the Notice be and is hereby extended by the addition to the aggregate number of Shares that may be allotted and issued or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted and issued by the Directors pursuant to such general mandate of the number of shares repurchased by the Company pursuant to the mandate referred to in the resolution set out in item 7 of the Notice, provided that such amount shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued Shares of the Company as at the date of the passing of this resolution (such total number to be subject to adjustment in the case of any consolidation or subdivision of any of the shares of the Company into a smaller or larger number of shares of the Company respectively after the passing of this resolution).”

  1. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company and to authorize the Board to fix their remuneration for the year ending December 31, 2021.

  2. To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modification the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

THAT

  • (a) the subscription agreement (the “ Tencent Subscription Agreement ”) dated April 19, 2021 (a copy of which has been produced to the meeting marked “A” and signed by the chairman of the meeting for the purpose of identification) and entered into by the Company as issuer and Tencent Mobility Limited (“ Tencent ”) as subscriber in relation to the subscription of 11,352,600 new Shares (the “ Tencent Subscription Shares ”) at the subscription price of HK$273.80 per Share and the transactions contemplated therein be and are hereby approved;

  • (b) conditional upon, among other things, the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange granting the listing of, and permission to deal in, the Tencent Subscription Shares, the directors of the Company be and are hereby granted a specific mandate to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot and issue the Tencent Subscription Shares, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the Tencent Subscription Agreement. This specific mandate so granted is in addition to, and shall not prejudice nor revoke any general or specific mandate(s) which has/have been granted or may from time to time be granted to the Directors by the shareholders of the Company at, before or after the passing of this resolution; and

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  • (c) any one director of the Company be and is hereby authorised to sign, execute, perfect and deliver all such documents and deeds, and do all such acts, matters and things as are, in the opinion of such director of the Company, desirable or expedient to give effect to the Tencent Subscription Agreement, all the transactions contemplated thereunder and/or any matter ancillary or incidental thereto (including without limitation the allotment and issue of the Tencent Subscription Shares pursuant thereto), to agree to such variations, amendments or waivers to or of any of the provisions of the Tencent Subscription Agreement and all documents ancillary or incidental thereto as are, in the opinion of such director of the Company, not of a material nature and in the interest of the Company, and to effect or implement any other matter referred to in this resolution.”

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

  1. To amend the Memorandum and Articles of Association to update the name of the Company from “Meituan Dianping” to “Meituan”.

By order of the Board Meituan Wang Xing Chairman

Hong Kong, May 24, 2021

Registered Office:

PO Box 309 Ugland House Grand Cayman, KY1-1104 Cayman Islands

Head Office and Principal Place of Business in China:

Block B&C, Hengjiweiye Building No. 4 Wang Jing East Road Chaoyang District Beijing 100102 China

Principal Place of Business in Hong Kong: Level 54, Hopewell Centre 183 Queen’s Road East Hong Kong

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Notes:

  1. All resolutions at the meeting will be taken by poll (except where the chairman decides to allow a resolution relating to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted on by a show of hands) pursuant to the Articles of Association and the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “ Listing Rules ”). The results of the poll will be published on the websites of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and the Company in accordance with the Listing Rules.

  2. Any shareholder of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint any number of proxies (who must be individuals) to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. If more than one proxy is appointed, the number of shares in respect of which each such proxy so appointed must be specified in the relevant form of proxy.

  3. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present being the most or, as the case may be, the more senior shall alone be entitled to vote in respect of the relevant joint holding and, for this purpose, seniority shall be determined by reference to the order in which the names of the joint holders stand on the Register of Members in respect of the relevant joint holding.

  4. In order to be valid, the proxy form together with a power of attorney or other authority, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power of attorney or authority, must be deposited at the Company’s Hong Kong Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (for both holders of Class A Shares and holders of Class B Shares), at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or the adjourned meeting (as the case may be). Completion and return of the form of proxy shall not preclude a shareholder of the Company from attending and voting in person at the meeting and, in such event, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

  5. For determining the entitlement to attend and vote at the meeting, the register of members of the Company will be closed from Friday, June 18, 2021 to Wednesday, June 23 2021, both dates inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares will be registered. In order to be eligible to attend and vote at the meeting, unregistered holders of shares of the Company shall ensure that all transfer documents accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company’s Hong Kong Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (for both holders of Class A Shares and holders of Class B Shares), at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong for registration not later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 17, 2021.

As at the date of this notice, the Board of Directors of the Company comprises Mr. Wang Xing as Chairman and Executive Director, Mr. Mu Rongjun and Mr. Wang Huiwen as Executive Directors, Mr. Lau Chi Ping Martin and Mr. Neil Nanpeng Shen as Non-executive Directors, and Mr. Orr Gordon Robert Halyburton, Mr. Leng Xuesong and Dr. Shum Heung Yeung Harry as Independent Non-executive Directors.

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