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SOHO China Limited — Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements 2021
May 26, 2021
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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements
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SOHO CHINA LIMITED SOHO 中國有限公司
(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 410)
POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 26 MAY 2021
POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
At the annual general meeting (the “ AGM ”) of SOHO China Limited (the “ Company ”, together with its subsidiaries, the “ Group ”) held on 26 May 2021, all the proposed resolutions as set out in the notice of AGM dated 21 April 2021 were duly passed by way of poll.
As at the date of the AGM, the total number of issued shares of the Company was 5,199,524,031 shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against the resolutions proposed at the AGM. There were no shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the proposed resolutions at the AGM as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Rules (the “ Listing Rules ”) Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. There were no restrictions on any shareholders of the Company (the “ Shareholders ”) casting votes on any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM. No Shareholders were required under the Listing Rules to abstain from voting on the proposed resolutions at the AGM. No party has stated its intention in the circular of the Company dated 21 April 2021 that it would vote against any proposed resolution or that it would abstain from voting at the AGM.
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The Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, was appointed as the scrutineer at the AGM for the purpose of vote-taking. All the resolutions were approved by the Shareholders. The poll results in respect of the respective resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:
| ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | No. of Votes (%) |
No. of Votes (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| For | Against | ||
| 1. | To receive and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and the reports of the directors of the Company (the “Directors”) and independent auditor of the Company (the “Auditor”) for the year ended 31 December 2020. |
3,607,297,688 99.931962% |
2,456,000 0.068038% |
| 2. | To re-elect Mrs. Pan Zhang Xin Marita as an executive Director. | 3,605,317,788 99.877113% |
4,435,900 0.122887% |
| 3. | To re-elect Mr. Huang Jingsheng as an independent non-executive Director. | 3,607,825,688 99.946589% |
1,928,000 0.053411% |
| 4. | To authorize the Board to fix the remuneration of the Directors. | 3,594,006,143 99.563750% |
15,747,545 0.436250% |
| 5. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor and authorize the Board to fix their remuneration. |
3,595,991,393 99.618747% |
13,762,295 0.381253% |
| 6. | (A) To give a general mandate to the Directors to allot, issue and deal with the additional shares not exceeding 20 per cent of the aggregate number of the issued shares of the Company. |
3,437,428,475 95.226123% |
172,325,213 4.773877% |
| (B) To give a general mandate to the Directors to repurchase shares not exceeding 10 per cent of the aggregate number of the issued shares of the Company. |
3,607,250,188 99.930646% |
2,503,500 0.069354% |
|
| (C) To extend the authority given to the Directors pursuant to ordinary resolution numbered 6(A) to issue shares by adding thereto of the number of shares repurchased under ordinary resolution numbered 6(B). |
3,438,438,975 95.254116% |
171,314,713 4.745884% |
As more than 50% of votes were cast in favour of the resolutions numbered 1 to 6, all the above resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.
By order of the Board SOHO China Limited Pan Shiyi Chairman
Hong Kong, 26 May 2021
As at the date of this announcement, the executive Directors are Mr. Pan Shiyi and Mrs. Pan Zhang Xin Marita; and the independent non-executive Directors are Mr. Sun Qiang Chang, Mr. Xiong Ming Hua and Mr. Huang Jingsheng.
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