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EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
TO BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 23, 2021
To the shareholders of PainReform Ltd.:
Notice is hereby given
that an Extraordinary General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the shareholders of PainReform Ltd. (the "Company")
will be held at the offices of the Company's attorneys, Doron Tikotzky Kantor Gutman Nass & Amit Gross, at 7 Metsada
St., B.S.R Tower 4, Bnei Brak, Israel on February 23, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. (Israel Time),.
to hold the Meeting in person, we are sensitive to the public health and travel concerns our shareholders may have and the protocols
that governments may impose. We reserve the right to convert to a virtual only meeting format should meeting in person become
unsafe as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. If we convert to a virtual only online meeting, we will announce the decision to
do so in advance and provide instructions for shareholder participation in the virtual meeting in a Form 6-K filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and posted on our website www.painreform.com.
The agenda of the Meeting will be as follows:
at the close of business on January 22, 2021 shall be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting and any adjournment or
postponement thereof. You are cordially invited to attend the Meeting in person.
to attend the Meeting in person, you are requested to complete, date and sign the enclosed proxy and to return it promptly in
the pre-addressed envelope provided. Shareholders who attend the Meeting may revoke their proxies and vote their shares in
| By Order of the Board of Directors | |
| /s/ Ilan Hadar | |
| Ilan Hadar, Chief Executive Officer | |
| January 19, 2021 |
4 Bruria St. Tel Aviv, 6745442
FOR EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF
TO BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 23,
This Proxy Statement
is furnished to our holders of ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.03 per share, in connection with Extraordinary General Meeting
of Shareholders, to be held on February 23, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Israel time at the offices of the Company's attorneys, Doron
Tikotzky Kantor Gutman Nass & Amit Gross., at 7 Metsada St., B.S.R Tower 4, Bnei Brak, Israel, or at any adjournments thereof.
to hold the Meeting in person, we are sensitive to the public health and travel concerns our shareholders may have and the protocols
that governments may impose. We reserve the right to convert to a virtual only meeting format should meeting in person become
unsafe as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. If we convert to a virtual only online meeting, we will announce the decision to
do so in advance and provide instructions for shareholder participation in the virtual meeting in a Form 6-K filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
Throughout this Proxy
Statement, we use terms such as "PainReform", "we", "us", "our" and the "Company"
to refer to PainReform Ltd. and terms such as "you" and "your" to refer to our shareholders.
extraordinary meeting will be as follows:
We currently are unaware
of any other matters that may be raised at the Meeting. Should any other matters be properly raised at the Meeting, the persons
designated as proxies shall vote according to their own judgment on those matters.
Board Recommendation
Our Board of Directors
unanimously recommends that you vote "FOR" all items.
the holders of record of ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") of the Company as at the close of business on
January 22, 2021, (the "Record Date") shall be entitled to receive notice of and attend the Meeting and any
adjournment thereof. You are also entitled to notice of the Meeting and to vote at the Meeting if you held Ordinary Shares
through a bank, broker or other nominee that is one of our shareholders of record at the close of business on January 22,
2021, or which appeared in the participant listing of a securities depository on that date.
quorum shall be the presence of at least two (2) shareholders who hold at least twenty five percent (25%) of the voting rights
(including through a proxy or voting instrument) within one half hour from the time the meeting was designated to start. If within
half an hour from the time designated for the Meeting a quorum is not present, the Meeting will stand adjourned to the same day
in the following week, at the same time and place. If a quorum is not present at the adjourned meeting within half hour from the
time designated for its start, the meeting shall take place with any number of participants. This notice will serve as notice
of such reconvened meeting if no quorum is present at the original date and time and no further notice of the reconvened meeting
will be given to shareholders.
all matters considered at the Meeting, abstentions and broker non-votes will not be treated as either a vote "for"
or "against" the matter, although they will be counted to determine if a quorum is present. Broker non-votes occur
when brokers that hold their customers' shares in street name sign and submit proxies for such shares and vote such shares
on some matters but not on others. This occurs when brokers have not received any instructions from their customers, in
which case the brokers, as the holders of record, are permitted to vote on "routine" matters, but not on non-routine
or unreturned proxies, including those not returned by banks, brokers, or other record holders, will not be counted for quorum
for Approval of the Proposals
Each Ordinary Share issued
and outstanding as of the close of business on the Record Date is entitled to one vote at the Meeting. As of the close of business
on January 18, 2021, 8,758,016 Ordinary Shares were issued and outstanding.
The affirmative vote
of the holders of a majority of the voting power represented and voting on a proposal in person or by proxy is necessary for the
approval of each of the Proposals being presented at the Meeting.
respect to Proposals 1 through 6, the shareholders' approval must either include at least a majority of the Ordinary Shares
voted by shareholders who are not controlling shareholders nor are they shareholders who have a personal interest in Proposals
1 through 6, or the total Ordinary Shares of non-controlling shareholders and non-interested shareholders voting against this proposal
must not represent more than 2% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares.
a "controlling shareholder" is any shareholder that has the ability to direct our activities (other than by means
of being a director or office holder of the Company), including a person who holds 25% or more of the voting rights in the general
meeting of the Company if there is no other person who holds more than 50% of the voting rights in the company; for the purpose
of a holding, two or more persons holding voting rights in the Company each of which has a personal interest in the approval of
the transaction being brought for approval of the company shall be considered to be joint holders. A person is presumed to be
a controlling shareholder if it holds or controls, by himself or together with others, one half or more of any one of the "means
of control" of a company. "Means of control" is defined under Israeli law as any one of the following: (i) the
right to vote at a general meeting of a company, or (ii) the right to appoint directors of a company or its chief executive officer.
A "personal interest" of a shareholder in an action or transaction of a company includes a personal interest
of any of the shareholder's relatives (i.e. spouse, brother or sister, parent, grandparent, child as well as child, brother,
sister or parent of such shareholder's spouse or the spouse of any of the above) or an interest of a company with respect
to which the shareholder or the shareholder's relative (as defined above) holds 5% or more of such company's issued
shares or voting rights, in which any such person has the right to appoint a director or the chief executive officer or in which
any such person serves as director or the chief executive officer, including the personal interest of a person voting pursuant
to a proxy which the proxy grantor has a personal interest, whether or not the person voting pursuant to such proxy has discretion
with regards to the vote; and excludes an interest arising solely from the ownership of Ordinary Shares of a company.
As of the date of this
proxy statement, we believe that Medica III Investment group, which is indirectly controlled by our Chairman, Ehud Geller, holds
an approximate 37.6% beneficial ownership interest in our outstanding Ordinary Shares and should therefore be deemed a controlling
shareholder under the Israeli Companies Law, 1999 (the "Companies Law"), for purposes of the vote on Proposals 1 through
6 at the Meeting. Consequently, its votes will not be counted towards or against the special majority required for the approval
state whether you are a controlling shareholder or have a personal interest, your shares will not be voted for
Proposals 1 through 6. There will be a place on the proxy card to indicate such.
Holders of Ordinary Shares
Shares that are properly voted, for which proxy cards are properly executed and returned within the deadline set forth below,
will be voted at the Meeting in accordance with the directions given. If no specific instructions are given in such proxy cards,
the proxy holder will vote in favor of the item(s) set forth in the proxy card. The proxy holder will also vote in the discretion
of such proxy holder on any other matters that may properly come before the Meeting, or at any adjournment thereof. Where any
holder of Ordinary Shares affirmatively abstains from voting on any particular resolution, the votes attaching to such Ordinary
Shares will not be included or counted in the determination of the number of Ordinary Shares present and voting for the purposes
of determining whether such resolution has been passed (but they will be counted for the purposes of determining the quorum, as