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HAMON & CIE (INTERNATIONAL) S.A.
Article 556 -Point 9 de la Convocation à l’Assemblée Générale ordinaire
du 27 mai 2008 - Note explicative
1. CODE DES SOCIETES - ARTICLE 556
Seule l’assemblée générale peut conférer à des tiers des droits affectant le patrimoine de la
société ou donnant naissance à une dette ou à un engagement à sa charge, lorsque l’exercice
de ces droits dépend du lancement d’une offre publique d’acquisition sur les actions de la
société ou d’un changement de contrôle exercé sur elle.
A peine de nullité, la décision fait l’objet d’un dépôt au greffe, préalable à la réception par la
société de la communication visée à l’article 557, conformément à l’article 75.
2. SENIOR FACILITIES AGREEMENT dated 21 December 2007 - EXTRACT
1.
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1
Definitions
In this Agreement:
[…]
"Change of Control" means Sopal International SA ceasing to control directly or indirectly the Parent
or any person or group of persons acting in concert gaining direct or indirect control of the Parent. For
the purposes of this definition:
(a) "control" of the Parent means:
(i) the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:
(A) cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent. of the maximum number of votes
that might be cast at a general meeting of the Parent; or
(B) appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors or other equivalent officers of the
Parent; or
(C) give directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Parent with
which the directors or other equivalent officers of the Parent are obliged to comply;
and/or
(ii) the holding beneficially of more than 50 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Parent
(excluding any part of that issued share capital that carries no voting right and no right to
participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits or capital);
(b) "acting in concert" means, in respect of a group of persons that these persons, pursuant to an
agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal), actively co-operate, through the
acquisition directly or indirectly of shares in the Parent by any of them, either directly or indirectly,
to obtain or consolidate control of the Parent.
[…]
12.
12.1
MANDATORY PREPAYMENT
Exit
(a)
[…]
(b)
Upon the occurrence of:
(i)
any Flotation;
(ii) (subject to approval by a shareholders' resolution of the Parent) a Change of Control;
or
(iii) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent or the Group whether in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions,
the Facilities will be cancelled and all outstanding Utilisations and Ancillary Outstandings, together with
accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents, shall become immediately due
and payable.
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3. SENIOR SUBORDINATED TERM LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT dated 21
December 2007 - EXTRACT
8.
8.1
MANDATORY PREPAYMENT
Exit
(a)
[…]
(b)
Upon the occurrence of:
(i)
any Flotation;
(ii) (subject to approval by a shareholders' resolution of the Parent) a Change of Control;
or
(iii) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent or the Group whether in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions,
the Senior Subordinated Term Loan Facility will be cancelled and the Loan, together with accrued interest, and
all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents, shall become immediately due and payable.
4. PASSIF FINANCIER 2007
Une explication détaillée des éléments financiers des conventions précitées figure au point 27 des Notes aux
états financiers consolidés en page 88 du Rapport annuel ci-annexé.
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