Notice of AGM

Beacon Rise Holdings PLC

25 August 2023

 

THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own personal financial advice immediately from your stockbroker, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are resident in the United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriate authorized independent financial adviser.

If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your ordinary shares in Beacon Rise Holdings PLC, please forward this document, together with the accompanying Form of Proxy, at once to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was affected, for delivery to the purchaser or transferee. If you have sold or otherwise transferred only part of your holding in the shares, you should retain these documents and consult the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale of transfer was effected.

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BEACON RISE HOLDINGS PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales with registered no. 13620150)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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This document should be read as a whole. Your attention is drawn to the letter from the Chairman of the Company which is set out in Part I of this document and which recommends that you vote in favour of the resolutions to be proposed at the 2023 Annual General Meeting referred to below.

Notice of the 2023 Annual General Meeting, which will take place at Meeting Room 2, Paddington Works, 8 Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE on 19 September 2023 at BST 1:30 p.m., is set out in this document.

A Form of Proxy for use at the meeting is enclosed with this document and should be returned as soon as possible and in any event so as to be received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

Part I

Letter from the Chairman of Beacon Rise Holdings PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales with registered no. 13620150)            

Directors	Registered Office: Kemp House 160 City Road London EC1V 2NX 25 August 2023
Mr. Guo Fansheng
Mr. Xiabobing Wang
Ms. Yunxia Wang

Dear Shareholder

1.   Introduction

I am pleased to inform you that the 2023 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") of Beacon Rise Holdings PLC (the "Company") will be held at Meeting Room 2, Paddington Works, 8 Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE at BST 1:30 p.m. on 19 September 2023.

The formal notice convening the AGM ("AGM Notice") is set out in this document. Further information on each of the resolutions to be considered at the AGM ("Resolutions") is set out in section 2 (Resolutions at the Annual General Meeting) below.

The Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 are available for review or download in the Investors section on the Company's website at https://www.beaconrise.uk/index.php/investors.

This letter also explains why the Board of the Company recommend that shareholders of the Company vote in favour of the Resolutions.

2.   Resolutions at the Annual General Meeting

Resolution 1: The Directors are required to lay before the AGM the Directors' Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Resolutions 2-4: The Company's articles of association require all Directors to retire at the AGM and, if willing, offer themselves for re-appointment by the members. Mr. Fansheng Guo intends to retire from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank him for his service to the Company and valuable contributions to the Board's work. Mr. John Parker offers himself for election to the board as an independent non-executive director of the Company. Mr. Parker has significant financial and international capital markets experience, having previously led institutional equity distribution platforms and/or broker dealers in New York and London for global investment banks Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers in addition to European banks including Santander, ING and WestLB. He was also a partner at STJ Advisors, a leading capital markets advisory firm and a senior consultant at Rivel, the leading investor perception research firm globally. He started his career in Silicon Valley in outside technology sales. He is based in London and is a senior capital markets advisor to boards, C-Suite and investor relations teams, providing experienced insight into valuation optimisation and best in class governance. He has broad connectivity across private equity, asset management, alternative investments, venture capital and the banking industry. He has successfully participated in over 130 IPO and secondary transactions, helping to raise over $25 billion. Mr. Parker received a degree in economics from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. The Board recommends the election of Mr. John Parker.

Resolutions 5-6: These Resolutions are proposed to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report and the Directors' Remuneration Policy, set out on page 12 to 14 of the Annual Report and Financial Statements.

Resolution 7: This Resolution proposes the re-appointment of PKF Littlejohn LLP as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration. The current appointment of PKF Littlejohn LLP as the Company's auditors will end at the conclusion of the AGM and they have advised of its willingness to stand for re-appointment.

Resolution 8: This Resolution is proposed to grant to the Directors the authority to allot, pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, shares and grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company up to a maximum nominal amount of £748,000. The amount represents approximately two-thirds of the Company's issued share capital on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM Notice).  

For information, on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM Notice), the Company held no treasury shares. This authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 8 replaces any existing authorities to issue shares in the Company and will expire on the date being 15 months from the date of the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of next AGM of the Company (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting).

Resolution 9: This Resolution is to approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights. The passing of this Resolution will allow the Directors to allot shares for cash and/or sell treasury shares without first having to offer such shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings up to a maximum nominal amount of £224,400.  This amount represents 20 percent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM Notice).  

For information, on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM Notice), the Company held no treasury shares. This authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 9 replaces any existing authorities to issue shares in the Company and will expire on the date being 15 months from the date of the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of next AGM of the Company (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting).

3.   Voting

Each shareholder registered on the register of members of the Company at BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023 is entitled to vote on the Resolutions contained in the AGM Notice. If you would like to vote on the Resolutions but cannot come to the AGM, please complete a Form of Proxy and return it to the Company as soon as possible and in any event so as to be received by it by BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023. Further information in relation to the Form of Proxy (including how to return a completed proxy instruction) is set out in the AGM Notice and on the reverse of the Form of Proxy itself.

4.   Attendance

I hope that you will come to the AGM, if you can.

The Company is committed to reducing paper and improving efficiency in its shareholder communications. This year, you will not receive a hard copy Form of Proxy for the 2023 AGM in the post automatically. You may request a hard copy Form of Proxy directly from the Company. Details on how to request and complete a hard copy Form of Proxy are set out in this document.

Whether or not you intend to attend the AGM, I would strongly encourage you, regardless of the number of shares you own, to vote on the Resolutions in the manner detailed in the AGM Notice, either electronically or by completing and returning a hard copy Form of Proxy (available on request from the Company) as soon as possible and in any event not later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

Completion and submission or return of the Form of Proxy does not prevent you from attending and voting at the AGM in person.

The AGM Notice also includes instructions to enable you to vote electronically and details of how to register to do so. The Resolutions set out in this AGM Notice will be voted on by way of a poll. All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) will be included in the poll to be taken at the AGM.

In addition, shareholders are encouraged to submit questions, no later than seven days prior to the AGM, via email to the Company at [e-mail]. To the extent that it is appropriate to do so, the Company will endeavour to publish these questions and the Company's responses on the Company's website, www.beaconrise.uk, as soon as practicable after the AGM. To ask a question, please email [e-mail] with details of your shareholder number or other evidence of entitlement to attend the AGM.

Yours faithfully

Xiaobing Wang

Chairman

Part II

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Beacon Rise Holdings PLC (the Company) will hold its Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") at Meeting Room 2, Paddington Works, 8 Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE on 19 September 2023 at BST 1:30 p.m. You are being asked to consider and vote on the resolutions below (the "Resolutions" and each a "Resolution"). Resolution 9 is proposed as a special resolution and all other Resolutions are proposed as ordinary resolutions.

Ordinary Resolutions

1.   To receive the Directors' Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

2.   To re-elect Xiaobing Wang as a Director of the Company.

3.   To re-elect Yunxia Wang as a Director of the Company.

4.   To elect John Parker as a Director of the Company.

5.   To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report set out on pages 12 to 14 for the year ended 31 March 2023 of the 2023 Annual Report.

6.   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy set out on pages 12 to 14 of the 2023 Annual Report, to take effect from the end of this AGM.

7.   To re-appoint PKF Littlejohn LLP as auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company and authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Company's auditors.

8.   That the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised to and in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) to exercise all powers of the Company to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares up to a nominal amount of £748,000, such authority to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, whichever is the earlier (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting), but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements during the relevant period which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares to be granted after the authority ends.

Special Resolution

9.   That, subject to the passing of Resolution 8, the Directors be generally empowered to allot equity securities wholly for cash pursuant to the authority given by Resolution 8, or where the allotment constitutes an allotment of equity securities by virtue of section 560(3) of the Act, in each case as if section 561(1) and sub-sections (1) through (6) of section 562 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that such power be limited to:

a)    in connection with any offer of, or invitation to apply for, equity securities to:

i.      ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be practicable) to their existing holdings; and

ii.     holders of other equity securities 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 limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practicable problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter; and

b)    otherwise than in connection with paragraph a), up to an aggregate nominal amount of £224,400,

such power to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company or 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, whichever is the earlier (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting), but so that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements during this period which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted after the power ends.

By order of the Board

Xiaobing Wang

Chairman

Beacon Rise Holdings PLC

25 August 2023

Notes to the Notice of Annual General Meeting

Entitlement to attend and vote

1.   Voting at the Annual General Meeting will be carried out on a poll.

2.   Only those shareholders entered on the register of members at the BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023 (or, in the event of any adjournment, on the 48 hours (excluding any part of the day that is not a working day) prior to the adjourned meeting) shall be entitled to vote at the AGM. Changes to the register of members after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend or vote at the meeting.

Website giving information regarding the AGM

3.   Information regarding the AGM, including the notice of the AGM and Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023, is available in the Beacon Rise Financial Statements section on the Company's website at https://www.beaconrise.uk/index.php/investors.

Appointment of proxy

4.   If you are a shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at the meeting, you are entitled to appoint one or more proxies 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. A proxy does not need to be a shareholder of the Company but must attend the meeting to represent you. You can only appoint a proxy using the procedures set out in these notes and the notes to the proxy form.

5.   You may appoint more than one proxy provided each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. To appoint more than one proxy, please contact the Company by email at [e-mail]. You will need to state clearly on each proxy form the number of shares in relation to which the proxy is appointed. 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.

Appointment of proxy by post

6.   The notes to the proxy form explain how to direct your proxy how to vote on each Resolution.

7.   To appoint a proxy using the proxy form, the form must be:

a)   completed and signed;

b)   sent or delivered to the Company at its registered office Kemp House, 160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX; and

c)   received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

8.   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.

Appointment of proxies electronically

9.   As an alternative to completing the hard-copy proxy form, you can appoint a proxy electronically by emailing a copy of the proxy form to [e-mail]. For an electronic proxy appointment to be valid, your appointment must be received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

10. This email address should not be used for any other purposes unless expressly stated.

Proxy voting

11. In the case of a shareholder which is a corporation, the proxy form must be executed in any of the following ways: (i) under its common seal; (ii) not under its common seal but otherwise in accordance with the articles or constitution; or (iii) signed on its behalf by a duly authorised officer of the company or its authorised attorney.

12. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which a proxy form is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included with the proxy form.

13. 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 register in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).

Changing proxy instructions

14. Shareholders may change proxy instructions by submitting a new proxy appointment using the methods set out above. Note that the cut-off time for receipt of proxy appointments also applies in relation to amended instructions; any amended proxy appointment received after the relevant cut-off time will be disregarded.

15. Where you have appointed a proxy using the hard-copy proxy form and would like to change the instructions using another hard-copy proxy form, please contact [e-mail]. 

16. If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take precedence.

Termination of proxy appointment

17. A shareholder may change a proxy instruction but to do so you will need to inform the Company in writing by either: 

a)   sending a signed hard-copy notice clearly stating your intention to revoke your proxy appointment to the Company. In the case of a shareholder which is a company, the revocation notice 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 revocation notice is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included with the revocation notice; or

b)   sending an email to [e-mail].  

18. In either case, the revocation notice must be received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023. 

19. If you attempt to revoke your proxy appointment but the revocation is received after the time specified, your original proxy appointment will remain valid unless you attend the AGM and vote in person.

20. Appointment of a proxy does not preclude you from attending the meeting and voting in person. If you have appointed a proxy and attend the AGM in person, your proxy appointment will automatically be terminated.

Corporate representatives

21. Any corporation which is a shareholder can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a shareholder provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.

Issued shares and total voting rights

22. As at the opening of business on 24 August 2023 (being the last practicable date prior to publication of this document), the Company's issued share capital comprised 1,122,000 shares of £1 each. Each 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 the opening of business on 25 August 2023 is 1,122,000. As at the date of this document, the Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

Voting

23. Shareholders are requested to vote in advance of the AGM either electronically or by completing and returning the enclosed proxy form not later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023. The results will be published on our website www.beaconrise.uk and will be released to the London Stock Exchange.

24. At the AGM itself, the votes on each Resolution at the meeting will be taken by poll rather than a show of hands. The results will be published on our website www.beaconrise.uk and will be released to the London Stock Exchange.

Communication

25. Except as provided above, shareholders who have general queries about the meeting should contact [e-mail] (no other methods of communication will be accepted).

26. You may not use any electronic address provided either:

a)   in this notice of general meeting; or

b)   any related documents (including the proxy form),

to communicate with the Company for any purposes other than those expressly stated.

 

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