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BEOWULF MINING PLC
(Registered in England and Wales with company number 02330496)
Mr J Röstin (Non-Executive Chairman) 201 Temple Chambers
Mr E Bowie (Chief Executive Officer) 3-7 Temple Avenue
Mr C Davies (Non-Executive Director) London EC4Y 0DT Mr M Schauman (Non-Executive Director)
21 March 2025
Dear Shareholder
I have pleasure in sending you a notice convening a general meeting of Beowulf Mining plc (the "Company"). The general meeting will be held on 8 April 2025 at 11.00 a.m. (BST) (12.00 noon (CEST)) at the offices of Fieldfisher LLP at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3TT (the "General Meeting"). As you will see from the formal notice of General Meeting which follows this letter (the "Notice"), there are items of business to be considered and the purpose of each resolution to be proposed is set out in paragraph 3 below. The purpose of this document is to explain the background to and reasons for convening the General Meeting.
Earlier today the Company announced that it had undertaken a conditional placing and subscription to raise a minimum of £1.0 million (SEK 13 million) (before the deduction of transaction related costs) (the "Placing") at the same subscription price as is to be agreed in connection with the Rights Issue (as defined below) (the "Subscription Price"). As was set out in the announcement, the Placing forms part of a larger capital raise which the Company intends to undertake, in the coming weeks, by way of a preferential rights issue (the "Rights Issue") of Swedish Depository Receipts (“SDRs”) along with a retail offer of new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in the UK (the "UK Retail Offer") (the Placing, Rights Issue and the UK Retail Offer, together, being the "Capital Raise").
The SDRs represent interests in Ordinary Shares and the Rights Issue will, if fully subscribed, amount to approximately SEK 38 million (approximately £2.9 million) before the deduction of transaction related costs.
The Company has received underwriting commitments for the Rights Issue which, in aggregate, amount to maximum SEK 15 million (approximately £1.1 million), or approximately 40 per cent of the Rights Issue.
The Company values its UK investor base and, therefore, the purpose of the UK Retail Offer will be to allow for existing holders of Ordinary Shares ("Shareholders") in the United Kingdom the opportunity to participate in the Capital Raise, as well as to provide additional working capital in support of the Company’s ongoing projects.
The UK Retail Offer will, if fully subscribed, amount to approximately SEK 9 million (approximately £700,000) before deduction for transaction related costs. The first £100,000 of proceeds of the UK Retail Offer are subject to a claw-back arrangement in connection with the Placing and will not add to the aggregate maximum fundraising.
The proposed split of the Capital Raise between the Rights Issue and the UK Retail Offer will be proportionate to the relative holdings of SDRs and Ordinary Shares, at present approximately 80 per cent SDRs and 20 per cent Ordinary Shares.
In addition, members of the board of directors of the Company (the "Directors") and executive and senior management (including the Company's Chairman and CEO) have agreed, pursuant to direct subscription letters with the Company to subscribe in the Capital Raise for, in aggregate, approximately SEK 2.2 million (approximately £166,000). Certain other investors and relevant persons (within meaning set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005) have also agreed, pursuant to direct subscription letters with the Company, to subscribe in the Placing for, in aggregate, the equivalent of approximately SEK 1.3 million (approximately £100,000).
The main purpose of the Capital Raise will be to finance the continued development of Kallak Iron Ore Project in northern Sweden and the Graphite Anode Materials Plant. The Rights Issue will also repay amounts advanced under the bridge loan financing. With sufficient funding available, further programmes will be considered at each of the Company’s projects.
The formal decision to launch the Capital Raise as well as an announcement of its full terms and conditions, including, inter alia, the proposed Subscription Price, the number of SDRs and Ordinary Shares to be offered and the proposed timeline is planned for 4 April 2025.
In order to complete the Capital Raise without unnecessary delay, the Directors are seeking an increase in the authorities granted at the 2024 Annual General Meeting (the "Existing Authority") to ensure that the Directors have the requisite authority and flexibility to increase the Company's share capital (the "Authority"), as needed. The Authority (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Existing Authority) shall expire on the date of the next annual general meeting of the Company in 2025.
You will find at the end of this document the Notice convening the General Meeting to be held on 8 April 2025 at 11.00 a.m. (BST) (12.00 noon (CEST)) at the offices of Fieldfisher LLP at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3TT to consider and, if thought appropriate, to pass resolution 1 as an ordinary resolution and resolution 2 as a special resolution (the "Resolutions"). The Resolutions to be proposed at the General Meeting will be as follows:
Resolution 1 is a resolution to authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of £4,855,000.
In the event that this Resolution is passed, Directors will be authorised to allot up to an aggregate of 97,100,000 new Ordinary Shares. If given, this authority will expire on the conclusion of the Company's
next annual general meeting. This Authority is in addition to the Existing Authority so that the Directors will be authorised to issue up to an aggregate of 104,868,958 new Ordinary Shares in total.
Resolution 2 is a resolution to authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by Resolution 2 on a non-pre-emptive basis up to a nominal amount of £4,855,000.
This Authority is in addition to the Existing Authority so that the Directors will be authorised to issue up to an aggregate of 104,868,958 new Ordinary Shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis. This will enable the Directors to complete the Capital Raise.
The authorities granted by these Resolutions will continue until the Company's next annual general meeting in 2025.
Resolution 1 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution. For an ordinary resolution to be passed, more than 50 per cent. of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.
Resolution 2 will be proposed as a special resolution. For a special resolution to be passed, at least 75 per cent of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.
You can vote in respect of your shareholding by attending the General Meeting or by appointing one or more proxies to attend the General Meeting and vote on your behalf.
Proxies may be appointed by either:
In either case, the notice of appointment of a proxy should reach the Company's registrar, Neville Registrars Limited, by no later than 11:00 a.m. (BST) on 6 April 2025. Please refer to the Notes to the Notice of General Meeting starting on page 7 and the enclosed proxy form for detailed instructions.
Your Directors consider that the Resolutions to be proposed will promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, your Directors unanimously recommend that Shareholders vote in favour of all of the Resolutions, as they intend to do in respect of their own beneficial holdings.
Shareholders are asked to vote in favour of the Resolutions at the General Meeting in order for the Capital Raise to proceed. If the Resolutions are not passed by Shareholders, the Capital Raise cannot complete and the Company will not receive the net proceeds of the Capital Raise. The Directors believe that successful completion of the Capital Raise is required to fund the Company’s short-term working capital requirements. Whilst the Directors have been managing cash reserves carefully for a number of months, the Company needs to raise funds to continue trading. If the Capital Raise fails to complete, it may to lead to liquidity issues. Accordingly, the Directors believe that it is critical that Shareholders vote in favour of the Resolutions, as the Directors consider the
Capital Raise to represent the best possible option for Shareholders as a whole in the current circumstances.
Yours faithfully
Non-Executive Chairman
BEOWULF MINING PLC
(Registered in England and Wales with company number 02330496)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a General Meeting of Beowulf Mining plc (the "Company") will be held on 8 April 2025 at 11.00 a.m. (BST) (12.00 noon (CEST)) at the offices of Fieldfisher LLP at Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3TT. The business of the General Meeting will be to consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following ordinary and special resolutions:
not exceeding, in aggregate, £4,855,000 provided that the power granted by this resolution shall expire on the conclusion of the Company's next annual general meeting (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company prior to or on such date) save that the Company may, before such expiry make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after the expiry of such authority and the Directors may allot any equity securities after the expiry of such authority in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if this authority had not expired.
This authority is in addition to all unexercised authorities previously granted to the Directors to allot equity securities.
not exceeding, in aggregate, £4,855,000 provided that the power granted by this resolution shall expire on the conclusion of the Company's next annual general meeting (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company prior to or on such date) save that the Company may, before such expiry make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if this power had not expired.
This authority is in addition to all unexercised authorities previously granted to the Directors to allot equity securities for cash as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotment.
ONE Advisory Limited Company Secretary
Beowulf Mining plc 201 Temple Chambers
3-7 Temple Avenue London
EC4Y 0DT
United Kingdom
Entitlement to Attend and Vote at the General Meeting
6.00 p.m. (BST) on 4 April 2025 or if this general meeting is adjourned, at 6.00 p.m. on the day two business days prior to the adjourned meeting shall be entitled to attend and vote at the General Meeting.
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Holders of Swedish Depository Receipts of the Company (“SDRs”) who wish to vote by proxy at the General Meeting must:
Please note that requirement i. above must be fulfilled when the SDR holder chooses to attend the meeting as well as when he chooses to vote by using the proxy form.
Requirement i: SDRs are only registered in the name of the SDR holder in the register kept by Euroclear. SDR holders registered in the name of a nominee must have their SDRs registered in their own names in the register at Euroclear to be entitled to vote (by proxy form) at the General Meeting. SDR holders who hold the SDRs through a nominee must therefore request their nominee to make a temporary owner registration (so-called voting-right registration) in good time before 28 March 2025 if they wish to attend and/or vote.
Requirement ii: SDR holders who are directly registered in the register at Euroclear, or whose SDRs have been voting-right registered by 5:00 p.m. (CET) on 28 March 2025 and who wish to vote at the meeting must notify SEB of their intention to attend the General Meeting no later than 3 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (CEST) by email to seb.sdr@seb.se.
SDR holders can vote by proxy form by sending their original signed proxy forms so as to arrive at by post SEB, Issuer Agent, AB3, SE-106 40 Stockholm, or courier SEB Market Accounts & Tax Services Att: Freddy Gonzalez, AS 12, Råsta Strandväg 5, 169 79 Solna, no later than 10:00 a.m. (CEST) on 3 April 2025. Proxy forms will be available on www.beowulfmining.com.
SEB will tabulate the incoming proxy forms and notifications of attendance from SDR holders, and present to the Company the final tabulation of the SDR holders who were registered in the register at Euroclear on record date, 28 March 2025.
Please observe that conversion to or from SDRs and shares will not be permitted during the period between 26 March 2025 up to and including 2 April 2025.
Beowulf Mining plc www.beowulfmining.com Contact: ONE Advisory Limited
Email: co-sec@oneadvisory.london