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Sinopec Kantons Holdings Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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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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中国石化 SINOPEC

SINOPEC KANTONS HOLDINGS LIMITED

(中石化冠德控股有限公司) *

(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 934)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of Sinopec Kantons Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Salon Rooms II-III, 5/F., Harbour Grand Hong Kong, 23 Oil Street, North Point, Hong Kong on 26 June 2025 (Thursday) at 10:30 a.m. and at any adjournment thereof for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following businesses:

ORDINARY BUSINESS

  1. to receive, consider and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements and the reports of the directors (the "Director(s)") and auditor of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024;
  2. to approve and declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2024;
  3. (A) to re-elect Mr. Zhong Fuliang as an executive Director;
    (B) to re-elect Mr. Yang Yanfei as an executive Director;
    (C) to re-elect Mr. Zou Wenzhi as an executive Director;
    (D) to re-elect Mr. Fong Chung, Mark as an independent non-executive Director;
  4. to authorise the board of Directors (the "Board") to fix the Directors' remuneration;
  5. to re-appoint KPMG as auditors of the Company and authorise the Board to fix their remuneration.

and to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without modifications the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions.

  • For identification purpose only

SPECIAL BUSINESS

  1. "THAT:

(A) subject to paragraph (C) below, pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities (the "Listing Rules") on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange"), the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as defined hereinafter) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with unissued shares in the capital of the Company (including any disposal or transfer of treasury shares (which shall have the meaning ascribed to it by the Listing Rules ("Treasury Shares")) and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

(B) the approval in paragraph (A) above shall authorise the Directors during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

(C) the aggregate nominal amount of the shares allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted or issued (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors pursuant to the approval in paragraph (A) above, otherwise than pursuant to:

(i) a Rights Issue (as defined hereinafter);

(ii) the exercise of any option(s) granted under the share option scheme(s) of the Company adopted from time to time in accordance with the Listing Rules; or

(iii) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares pursuant to the Bye-laws of the Company from time to time,

shall not exceed the aggregate of:

(a) 20 per cent of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue (excluding Treasury Shares, if any) on the date of the passing of this Resolution; and

(b) (if the Directors are so authorised by a separate ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company) the aggregate nominal amount of any shares of the Company purchased by the Company subsequent to the passing of this Resolution (up to a maximum equivalent to 10 per cent of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue (excluding Treasury Shares, if any) on the date of the passing of this Resolution),

and the authority pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Resolution shall be limited accordingly; and

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(D) for the purposes of this Resolution,

“Relevant Period” means the period from the date of the passing of this Resolution until whichever is 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 Bye-laws of the Company, the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda (as amended) or any other applicable law of Bermuda to be held; or

(iii) the passing of an ordinary resolution by the shareholders of the Company in general meeting revoking or varying the authority given to the Directors by this Resolution.

“Rights Issue” means an offer of shares in the Company, or an offer or issue of warrants, options or other securities giving rights to subscribe for shares open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of shares in the Company on the register of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of shares (subject to such exclusion 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, or the expense or delay which may be involved in determining the existence or extent of any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of, any jurisdiction outside Hong Kong or any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange outside Hong Kong).

Any reference to an allotment, issue, grant, offer or dealing of shares of the Company shall include the sale or transfer of Treasury Shares (including to satisfy any obligation upon the conversion or exercise of any convertible securities, options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for shares of the Company) to the extent permitted by, and subject to the Company complying with the prevailing requirements of, the Bye-Laws, the Listing Rules and all applicable laws and regulations from time to time in force.

  1. “THAT:

(A) subject to paragraph (B) below, the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as defined hereinafter) of all powers of the Company to purchase its shares on the Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange(s) on which the shares of the Company may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for such purpose, and otherwise in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, the Stock Exchange, the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda (as amended) and all other applicable laws in this regard, be and the same is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

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(B) the aggregate nominal amount of the shares which may be purchased or agreed to be purchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (A) above during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10 per cent of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue (excluding Treasury Shares, if any) as at the date of the passing of this Resolution and the authority pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Resolution shall be limited accordingly;

(C) for the purposes of this Resolution,

“Relevant Period” means the period from the date of the passing of this Resolution until whichever is 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 Bye-laws of the Company, the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda (as amended) or any other applicable law of Bermuda to be held; or

(iii) the passing of an ordinary resolution by the shareholders of the Company in general meeting revoking or varying the authority given to the Directors by this Resolution.”

  1. “THAT conditional on the passing of Resolutions numbers 6 and 7 above, the general mandate granted to the Directors pursuant to paragraph (A) of Resolution number 6 above be and is hereby extended by the addition of the aggregate nominal amount of the shares of the Company which may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the Directors pursuant to or in accordance with such general mandate of an amount representing the aggregate nominal amount of the shares of the Company repurchased or agreed to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to or in accordance with the authority granted under paragraph (A) of Resolution number 7.”

By order of the Board of
Sinopec Kantons Holdings Limited
Zhong Fuliang
Chairman

Hong Kong, 17 April 2025


Notes:

  1. Any shareholder of the Company (the “Shareholder”) entitled to attend and vote at the meeting (or at any adjournment thereof) convened by the above notice is entitled to appoint one or more proxy to attend and vote instead of him/her in accordance with the provisions of the Bye-laws of the Company. A proxy need not be a Shareholder.

  2. In order to be valid, the form of proxy must be deposited together with a power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority, at the office of the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at 17/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong, as soon as possible, and in any event no later than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting (or any adjourned meeting thereof). Delivery of the form of proxy will not preclude a Shareholder from attending and voting in person at the meeting (or at any adjournment thereof) and in such event, such form of proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

  3. The resolutions proposed will be voted by way of poll.

  4. In relation to the proposed Resolutions numbers 6 and 8 above, approval is being sought from the Shareholders for the grant to the Directors of a general mandate to authorise the allotment and issue of shares under the Listing Rules. The Directors have no immediate plan to issue any new shares of the Company other than the shares which may fall to be issued under the share option scheme of the Company or any scrip dividend scheme which may be approved by Shareholders.

  5. In relation to the proposed Resolution number 7 above, the Directors wish to state that they will exercise the powers conferred thereby to repurchase shares in circumstances which they deem appropriate for the benefit of the Shareholders as a whole. An explanatory statement containing the information necessary to enable the Shareholders to make an informed decision to vote on the proposed resolution as required by the Listing Rules is set out in the circular to be sent to the Shareholders with the annual report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

  6. For determining the entitlement to attend and vote at the meeting, the Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 20 June 2025 (Friday) to 26 June 2025 (Thursday) (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares will be registered. In order to qualify to attend the meeting, all share transfer accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at 17/F, Far East Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong for registration no later than 4:00 p.m. on 19 June 2025 (Thursday).

  7. For determining the entitlement to the proposed final dividend (subject to the approval by the Shareholders at the meeting), the Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 11 July 2025 (Friday) to 15 July 2025 (Tuesday) (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares will be registered. In order to qualify for the proposed dividend, all share transfer accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Tricor Investor Services Limited, at 17/F, Far East Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong for registration no later than 4:00 p.m. on 10 July 2025 (Thursday).

  8. In case Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above is hoisted, or a Black Rainstorm Warning Signal or “extreme conditions caused by a super typhoon” announced by the Government is/are in force in Hong Kong on the date of the annual general meeting, please refer to the Company’s website (www.sinopec.com.hk) and the HKEXnews website (www.hkexnews.hk) for details of alternative meeting arrangements (if any).

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As at the date of this notice, the Board comprises the following:

Executive Directors:
Mr. Zhong Fuliang (Chairman)
Mr. Yang Yanfei
Mr. Ren Jiajun
Mr. Zou Wenzhi
Mr. Mo Zhenglin
Mr. Sang Jinghua (General Manager)

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
Ms. Tam Wai Chu, Maria
Mr. Fong Chung, Mark
Dr. Wong Yau Kar, David
Ms. Wong Pui Sze, Priscilla

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