3 September 2024
ACP ENERGY PLC
Notice of Annual General
Meeting
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting
of ACP Energy PLC (the "Company") will be held at 13 Hanover
Square, London W1S 1HN on 23 September 2024 at 10.00 a.m. to
consider the following resolutions, of which resolutions 1 to 4
will be proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 5 and 6,
as special resolutions. Please note the Explanatory Notes to
each of the Resolutions and the Directors recommendation attached
to this document.
Ordinary
Resolutions.
1. To
receive and adopt the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the
financial year ended on 30 June 2023, and the Directors' Report and
the Independent Auditors' Report to those accounts.
2. To
approve the directors' remuneration report and the remuneration
policy for the financial year ended 30 June 2023, which is
contained within the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the
Financial Year ended 30 June 2023.
3. To
re-appoint PKF Littlejohn LLP as auditor of the Company and to hold
office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting at
which accounts are laid before the members and to authorise the
directors to determine their remuneration.
4. THAT, the
Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance
with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") and in substitution for all
existing authorities under that section, to exercise all the powers
of the Company to allot shares in the Company or to grant rights to
subscribe for, or to convert any security into, shares in the
Company ("Rights") up to an
aggregate nominal amount of £5,000,000 during the period commencing
on the date of the passing of this resolution and shall expire on
the later of the date falling 18 months after the date of the
passing of this resolution and the conclusion of the next Annual
General Meeting of the Company, and provided further that the
Company shall be entitled before such expiry to make an offer or
agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or
Rights to be granted after such expiry and the Directors shall be
entitled to allot shares and grant Rights under such offer or
agreement as if this authority had not expired.
Special Resolutions.
5. THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 4 above, the
directors be empowered under section 570 of the Act to allot equity
securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash
under the general authority already given as if sub-section 561(1)
of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this
power shall be limited to:
(a) the allotment of equity
securities in connection with an offer of such securities to
holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities for which
ordinary shares are respectively entitled to subscribe are
proportionate (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of
ordinary shares held by them, but subject to such exclusions or
other arrangements as the directors may deem necessary or expedient
in relation to fractional entitlements or any legal or practical
problems under the laws of any overseas territory or the
requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange;
and
(b) the allotment (otherwise than
under sub-paragraph (a) above) of equity securities up to an
aggregate nominal value of £5,000,000; and so that such power
(unless previously revoked or varied) shall expire on the later of
the date falling 18 months after the date of the passing of this
resolution and the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of
the Company, provided that the directors may, before the power
expires, make an offer or enter into an agreement which would or
might require equity securities to be allotted after such power
expires.
6. THAT a
general meeting of the Company, other than an annual general
meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days'
notice.
By Order of the Board Paul Welch
Executive Chairman
29 August 2024
For further information:
www.acpenergyplc.com ACP
Energy
Paul Welch, Executive Chairman
Celicourt
Communications
+44 207 770 6424 / acpenergy@celicourt.uk
Mark Antelme / Jimmy Lea
Notes:
1. Pursuant to
Regulation 41 of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001,
the Company specifies that only those members registered on the
Company's register at 6.00 p.m. on 19 September 2024 shall be
entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting.
2. If you are a member of the
Company at the time set out in note 1 above, you are entitled to
appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of your rights to attend,
speak and vote at the Meeting and you should have received a proxy
form with this notice of meeting. You can only appoint a proxy
using the procedures set out in these notes and the notes to the
proxy form.
3. A proxy does not need to be a
member of the Company but must attend the Meeting to represent you.
Details of how to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting or another
person as your proxy using the proxy form are set out in the notes
to the proxy form. If you wish your proxy to speak on your behalf
at the Meeting you will need to appoint your own choice of proxy
(not the Chairman) and give your instructions directly to
them. Shareholders who return a Proxy Form will be able to
attend the meeting and vote in person if they wish. If you
attend in person and vote, then your proxy appointment will be
automatically terminated.
4. You may appoint more than one
proxy provided each proxy is appointed to exercise rights attached
to different shares. You may not appoint more than one proxy to
exercise rights attached to any one share. To appoint more than one
proxy, please contact the Company's registrars at the address set
out in note 5 below.
5. The notes to the proxy form
explain how to direct your proxy how to vote on the Resolution or
withhold their vote. To appoint a proxy using the proxy form, the
form must be:
(a) completed and signed;
(b) sent or delivered to the
Company's Registrar at Neville Registrars Limited at Neville House,
Steelpark Road, Halesowen, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B62 8HD;
and
(c) received by the Company's
Registrar on or prior to 10.00 a.m. on 19 September 2024 or not
less than 48 hours (excluding any part of a day that is not a
working day) before the time of any adjourned meeting.
In the case of a member which is a
company, the proxy form must be executed under its common seal or
signed on its behalf by an officer of the company or an attorney
for the company.
Any power of attorney or any other
authority under which the proxy form is signed (or a duly certified
copy of such power or authority) must be included with the proxy
form.
6. In the case of joint holders,
where more than one of the joint holders purports to appoint a
proxy, only the appointment submitted by the most senior holder
will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the
names of the joint holders appear in the Company's register of
members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the
most senior).
7. As at close of business on the
day immediately prior to the date of posting this notice of Annual
General Meeting, the Company's issued share capital comprised
46,600,000 ordinary shares of £0.002 each and there are no Ordinary
Shares held in treasury. Each Ordinary Share carries the
right to one vote at a general meeting of the Company and,
therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at
close of business on the day immediately prior to the date of
posting of this notice of Annual General Meeting is
46,600,000.
8. Any electronic addresses provided
in this notice are provided solely for the purpose of enabling
shareholders to register the appointment of a proxy or proxies for
the meeting or to submit their voting directions electronically.
You may not use any electronic address provided in this notice to
communicate with the Company for any purposes other than those
expressly stated.
9. A corporate shareholder may
authorise a person or persons to act as its representative(s) at
the Annual General Meeting. In accordance with the provisions of
the Companies Act 2006, each such representative may exercise (on
behalf of the corporation) the same powers as the corporation could
exercise if it were an individual shareholder in the Company,
provided that they do not do so in relation to the same
share.
10. A copy of this notice, and other
information required by section 311A of the Companies Act 2006, can
be found at https://acpenergyplc.com.
11. CREST members who wish to
appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy
appointment service may do so by using the procedures described in
the CREST Manual. CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored
members, and those CREST members who have appointed a service
provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service
provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on
their behalf.
12. In order for a proxy appointment
or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the
appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction") must be
properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK &
International Limited's specifications, and must contain the
information required for such instruction, as described in the
CREST Manual (available via www.euroclear.com/CREST).
The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment
of a proxy or is an amendment to the instruction given to a
previously appointed proxy must, in order to be valid, be
transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent, Neville
Registrars Limited (ID: 7RA11) by 10.00 a.m. on 19 September 2024.
For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time
(as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the
CREST Application Host) from which the issuer's agent is able to
retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed
by CREST. After this time any change of instructions to proxies
appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee
through other means.
13. CREST members and, where
applicable, their CREST sponsors, or voting service providers
should note that Euroclear UK & International Limited does not
make available special procedures in CREST for any particular
message. Normal system timings and limitations will, therefore,
apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is
the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if
the CREST member is a CREST personal member, or sponsored member,
or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that his
CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as
shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means
of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection,
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting
system providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of
the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST
system and timings.
14. The Company may treat as invalid
a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in
Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations
2001.
15. Shareholders attending the AGM,
whether in person have a right to ask questions relating to the
business being dealt with at the meeting. The Company must answer
such questions unless:
16.1 answering would
interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting or would
involve the disclosure of confidential information,
16.2 the answer has
already been given on a website in the form of an answer to a
question, or
16.3 it is undesirable
in the interests of the Company or the good order of the meeting
that the question be answered.
17. The right to appoint a proxy
does not apply to persons whose shares are held on their behalf by
another person and who have been nominated to receive
communications from the Company in accordance with section 146 of
the Companies Act 2006 (nominated persons). Nominated persons may
have a right under an agreement with the registered shareholder who
holds the shares on their behalf to be appointed (or to have
someone else appointed) as proxy. Alternatively, if nominated
persons do not have such a right, or do not wish to exercise it,
they may have a right under such an agreement to give instructions
to the person holding the shares as to the exercise of voting
rights
18, Shareholders satisfying
the threshold requirements set out in section 527 of the Companies
Act 2006 can require the Company to publish a statement on
its website setting out any matter relating to:
18.1 the audit of the Company's
accounts (including the auditors' report and the conduct of the
audit) that are to be laid before the Meeting; or
18.2 any circumstances connected
with an auditor of the Company ceasing to hold office since the
last annual general meeting, that the shareholders propose to raise
at the Meeting.
19. If you have sold or transferred
all of your shares, this Notice of Meeting should be passed on to
the person through whom the sale or transfer was effected for
transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
Explanatory notes to the
Notice of AGM
The following notes give an
explanation of the proposed Resolutions. Resolutions 1 to 4
(inclusive) are proposed as ordinary resolutions. This means for
each of those Resolutions to be passed, more than half of the votes
cast must be in favour of the Resolution. Resolutions 5 and 6 are
proposed as special resolutions. This means that for Resolutions 5
and 6 to be passed, at least three quarters of the votes cast must
be in favour of the Resolutions.
Resolution 1 - Receiving 2023 Report and
Accounts
This is an ordinary resolution to
receive and adopt the annual accounts of the Company for the
financial year ended 30 June 2023 together with the Directors'
reports and auditors' report on those accounts.
Resolution 2 - Remuneration Report and Remuneration
Policy
In accordance with the provisions of
the Companies Act 2006, the Directors' remuneration report (the
Remuneration Report) in the Annual Report 2023 sets out the
remuneration paid to the Company's Directors during the year ended
30 June 2023. The vote on the Remuneration Report is advisory
only.
The Resolution also includes the
approval of the remuneration policy for the Directors.
Resolution 3 - Appointment of Auditors
This is an ordinary resolution to
grant the Directors the authority to appoint PKF Littlejohn LLP as
the Company's auditors, to hold office from the conclusion of the
AGM until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting at
which the accounts are laid before the Company and to authorise the
Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.
Resolution 4 - Directors' Authority to Allot
Shares
This is an ordinary resolution to
grant the Directors the authority to allot and issue shares and
grant rights to subscribe for shares in the Company for the
purposes of Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the
"Act") up to the maximum
aggregate nominal amount of £5,000,000. This Resolution replaces
any existing authorities to issue shares in the Company and the
authority under this Resolution will expire at the conclusion of
the next annual general meeting of the Company.
Resolution 5 - Disapplication of Pre-emption
Rights
Resolution 5 proposes to
dis-apply the statutory rights of pre-emption in respect of the
allotment of equity securities for cash under Section 561(1) of the
Act. This is a special resolution authorising the Directors to
issue equity securities as continuing authority up to an aggregate
nominal amount of £5,000,000 for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis
pursuant to the authority conferred by Resolution 4 above. The
authority granted by this Resolution will expire at the conclusion
of the next annual general meeting of the Company.
Resolution 6 - Notice Periods for General
Meetings
Resolution 6 is a special resolution
to allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than annual
general meetings, on 14 days' notice. Under the Companies Act
2006, the minimum notice period for general meetings of listed
companies (as is the case for this Company) is 21 days. However,
this period can be reduced to 14 days (other than for AGMs),
provided that two conditions are met. The first condition is that
the company offers facilities for shareholders to submit proxy
appointments by electronic means. The second condition is that
there is an annual resolution of shareholders approving the
reduction in the minimum notice period from 21 days to 14
days. The Board is therefore proposing Resolution 6 as a
special resolution to approve 14 days as the minimum period of
notice for all general meetings of the Company, other than annual
general meetings. The approval will be effective until the
Company's next annual general meeting.
Recommendation
The Directors unanimously believe
that the Resolutions are in the best interests of the Company and
its Shareholders and unanimously recommend you to vote in favour of
the Resolutions as they intend to do in respect of their own
holdings of Ordinary Shares which amount, in aggregate, to
approximately 16,250,000 Ordinary Shares, representing
approximately 34.87 per cent.