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Annual General Meeting held on May 10, 2024 - Poll Results
Hong Kong, Shanghai, & Florham Park, NJ: Friday, May 10, 2024: HUTCHMED (China) Limited ("HUTCHMED" or the "Company") (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM; HKEX:13) today announces that all ordinary resolutions and the special resolution put to its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on May 10, 2024 were duly passed. The poll results of the resolutions were as follows:
| Ordinary Resolutions | Number of Votes (%)* | Passed by Shareholders | |||
| For | Against | Withheld # | |||
| 1. | To consider and adopt the audited financial statements, and the reports of the directors and independent auditors for the year ended December 31, 2023. | 554,454,067 (93.5575%) | 38,180,450 (6.4425%) | 218,278 | Yes |
| 2(A). | To re-elect Mr TO Chi Keung, Simon as a director. | 562,917,369 (94.9555%) | 29,905,093 (5.0445%) | 30,333 | Yes |
| 2(B). | To re-elect Dr Weiguo SU as a director. | 592,306,222 (99.9129%) | 516,240 (0.0871%) | 30,333 | Yes |
| 2(C). | To re-elect Mr CHENG Chig Fung, Johnny as a director. | 592,007,486 (99.8625%) | 814,976 (0.1375%) | 30,333 | Yes |
| 2(D). | To re-elect Dr Dan ELDAR as a director. | 591,101,915 (99.7098%) | 1,720,547 (0.2902%) | 30,333 | Yes |
| 2(E). | To re-elect Ms Edith SHIH as a director. | 588,968,013 (99.3498%) | 3,854,454 (0.6502%) | 30,328 | Yes |
| 2(F). | To re-elect Ms Ling YANG as a director. | 584,012,135 (98.5138%) | 8,810,327 (1.4862%) | 30,333 | Yes |
| 2(G). | To re-elect Mr Paul Rutherford CARTER as a director. | 534,646,546 (90.1866%) | 58,175,756 (9.8134%) | 30,493 | Yes |
| 2(H). | To re-elect Mr Graeme Allan JACK as a director. | 570,023,306 (96.1541%) | 22,799,126 (3.8459%) | 30,363 | Yes |
| 2(I). | To re-elect Professor MOK Shu Kam, Tony as a director. | 582,250,508 (98.2167%) | 10,571,949 (1.7833%) | 30,338 | Yes |
| 3. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers and PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP as the Auditors of the Company for Hong Kong financial reporting and U.S. financial reporting purposes, respectively, and to authorize the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration. | 592,416,337 (99.9339%) | 391,725 (0.0661%) | 44,733 | Yes |
| Special Resolution | |||||
| 4. | To grant a general mandate to the Directors to issue additional shares of the Company.^ | 589,480,694 (99.4384%) | 3,329,371 (0.5616%) | 42,730 | Yes |
| Ordinary Resolution | |||||
| 5. | To grant a general mandate to the Directors to repurchase shares of the Company.^ | 592,794,880 (99.9974%) | 15,185 (0.0026%) | 42,730 | Yes |
* Percentages rounded to 4 decimal places.
# A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.
^ The full text of Resolutions 4 and 5 are set out in the Notice of AGM.
| Investor Enquiries | +852 2121 8200 / ir@hutch-med.com |
| Media Enquiries | |
| Ben Atwell / Alex Shaw, FTI Consulting | +44 20 3727 1030 / +44 7771 913 902 (Mobile) / +44 7779 545 055 (Mobile) / HUTCHMED@fticonsulting.com |
| Zhou Yi, Brunswick | +852 9783 6894 (Mobile) / HUTCHMED@brunswickgroup.com |
| Nominated Advisor | |
| Atholl Tweedie / Freddy Crossley / Daphne Zhang, Panmure Gordon | +44 (20) 7886 2500 |