AGM Information • May 23, 2023
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The Companies Act 2006
THE RESTAURANT GROUP PLC
(the “Company”)
COPY RESOLUTIONS
Passed on 23 May 2023
At an Annual General Meeting of the members of the Company duly convened and held at the Company’s Head Office at 5-7 Marshalsea Road, London SE1 1EP, on Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 11:00 am, the following resolutions were duly passed:
ORDINARY RESOLUTION
Allotment of shares
(a) up to a nominal amount of £71,724,599 (such amount to be reduced by any allotments or grants made under paragraph (b) below in excess of such sum); and
(b) comprising equity securities (as defined in section 560 of the Act) up to a nominal amount of £143,449,199 (such amount to be reduced by any allotments or grants made under paragraph (a) above) in connection with an offer by way of a rights issue:
(i) to holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them; and
(ii) to holders of other equity securities in the capital of the Company, as required by the rights of those securities or, subject to such rights, as the Directors otherwise consider necessary,
and so that the Directors may impose any exclusions, limits or restrictions and make any other arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange, or any other matter, such authority to expire at midnight on 23 August 2024 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company, unless previously renewed, revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting, save that the Company may at any time before the expiry of this authority make offers or enter into agreements which would or might require shares to be allotted or relevant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the expiry of this authority and the Directors of the Company may allot shares or grant relevant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares pursuant to any such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
These authorities are in substitution for all existing authorities under section 551 of the Act (which, to the extent unused at the date of this resolution, are revoked with immediate effect).
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
Waiver of pre-emption rights
(a) in connection with an offer of equity securities (but in the case of the authority conferred by paragraph (b) of Resolution 15 as set out in this Notice, by way of rights issue only):
(i) to the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them; and
(ii) to holders of other equity securities in the capital of the Company, as required by the rights of those securities or, subject to such rights, as the Directors otherwise consider necessary,
and so that the Directors may impose any exclusions, limits or restrictions and make any other arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange, or any other matter; and
(b) otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above up to an aggregate nominal amount of £10,758,689,
and such power shall expire at midnight on 23 August 2024 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company, but so that this power shall enable the Company to make offers or enter into agreements before such expiry which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors of the Company may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if such expiry had not occurred. This power, and that provided in Resolution 17, are in substitution for all existing powers under sections 570 and 573 of the Act (which, to the extent unused at the date of this resolution, are revoked with immediate effect).
(a) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £10,758,689; and
(b) be used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if such refinancing occurs within six months of 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 Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice,
and such power shall expire at midnight on 23 August 2024 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company, but so that this power shall enable the Company to make offers or enter into agreements before such expiry which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors of the Company may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if such expiry had not occurred. This power, and that provided in Resolution 16, are in substitution for all existing powers under sections 570 and 573 of the Act (which, to the extent unused at the date of this resolution, are revoked with immediate effect).
Authority to purchase own shares
(a) the maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares authorised to be purchased is 76,506,239 (representing approximately 10 per cent of the Company’s issued Ordinary Share capital);
(b) the minimum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for such Ordinary Shares is 28 1/8pence per share;
(c) the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share is the higher of:
(i) an amount equal to 105 per cent of the average of the middle market quotations for the Ordinary Shares as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days preceding the date on which the Ordinary Share is contracted to be purchased; and
(ii) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bidon the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List at the time the purchase is carried out;
(d) the authority hereby conferred shall expire at midnight on 23 August 2024 or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the Company’s next AGM unless such authority is renewed, revoked or varied prior to such time by the Company in general meeting; and
(e) the Company may make a contract or contracts to purchase Ordinary Shares under the authority conferred by this resolution prior to the expiry of such authority which will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiry of such authority and may make a purchase of Ordinary Shares in pursuance of any such contract or contracts as if this authority had not expired.
Notice of General Meetings
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