18 August 2009
Notification of Resolution of Unitholder Meeting No. 1/2009
(Translation)
No. TT/IM 401/2009
17 August 2009
Re: Notification of Resolutions of Unitholder Meeting No. 1/2009
To: The President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
The unitholder meeting of CPN Retail Growth Leasehold Property Fund
(CPNRF) (the "Fund") No. 1/2009, held on 17 August 2009 at 9.00 a.m. at the
Auditorium, TMB Bank Public Company Limited, Head Office, 3000 Phahonyothin
Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok, having total number of unitholders attending in
person or by proxy 231 persons holding altogether 849,798,402 units,
equivalent to 77.86 percent of total units (1,091,500,000 units), has passed
certain material resolutions, which can be summarized as follows:
1. Approved with affirmative votes of 433,569,902 units from the total
Investment units of unitholders who have the right to vote of 727,703,100
units or equivalent to 59.58 percent of the total Investment units of
unitholders who have the right to vote (727,703,100 votes) and equivalent to
89.21 percent of the total Investment units of unitholders attending the
meeting and having the right to vote ( 486,001,502 units) (while there were
unitholders who did not approve or abstain their votes and invalid ballots in
the number of 52,431,600 units or equivalent to 7.20 percent of the total
Investment units of unitholders who have the right to vote or equivalent to
10.79 percent of the total Investment units of unitholders attending the
meeting and having the right to vote. For voting of this agenda, the
Management Company did not count Investment units held by Central Pattana
Public Company Limited which is a related party, holding 363,796,900 units,
equivalent to 33.33 percent of total number of Investment units sold.) that
the Fund shall invest in (a) leasing certain parts of shopping complex and the
whole of the 2 office buildings, including indoor parking spaces (in
proportion to the utilized areas of the shopping complex and the office
buildings in which the Fund will invest), (b) leasing and/or accepting the
transfer of ownership of utilities systems and other assets relevant to
CentralPlaza Pinklao Project, and (c) subleasing the land where the shopping
complex, office buildings, parking spaces, as well as the surrounding road and
the entrances and exits of CentralPlaza Pinklao Project are located, from
Central Pattana Public Company Limited and/or Central Realty Service Company
Limited (as the case may be). The properties in which the Fund will invest
in (a) - (c) above are called the "Real Properties of Central Plaza Pinklao
Project". The Fund will consider investing in the Real Properties of
CentralPlaza Pinklao Project for a period of approximately 15 years at the
total price not exceeding Baht 6,495.60 million. The price that the Fund will
invest in the Real Properties of CentralPlaza Pinklao Project will be
determined from the proceeds of the capital increase of the Fund to be
received from the issue and offer for sale of the new Investment Units and
loan (if any) as proposed herein as per the details in Agenda 2 below. The
price for the Fund to invest in thes real properties will not be higher
than the lowest price obtained from the valuation reports of the independent
property appraisers in excess of 20 percent, the meeting also acknowledged the
adjustment of the property management fee to be collected from the Fund to
reflect the additional investment in the real properties for commercial office
use by the Fund as previously approved by the Unitholders' Meeting No.1/2008
held on 19 August 2008.
In addition, the Management Company shall be empowered to take the
following actions:
1) To determine the details of the additional properties and
appropriate price to be additionally invested by the Fund.
2) To negotiate, prepare, execute, deliver and/or amend the
agreements or commitments evidencing the right to purchase or lease the real
properties, the lease agreements and/or sublease agreements of the real
properties and/or any relevant contracts and/or documents after receiving an
approval from the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Office of
the SEC") to increase the capital of the Fund and to contact the Office of the
SEC, the Stock Exchange of Thailand, the government authorities or agencies,
or any persons for the said purposes.
3) To do any acts which are necessary and relevant to the adjustment
of the fee to be collected from the Fund in all respects and to specify terms
and details, to negotiate, agree, execute, deliver and amend the documents
relating thereto, to appoint any substitutes and to do any other acts as
proposed in all respects for their accomplishment.
4) To do any other acts which are necessary or relevant to accomplish
the foregoing acts in all respects and to appoint and/or remove any
substitutes for the acts under Sections 1) to 3) above.
2. Approved with affirmative votes of 786,542,802 units from the total number
of Investment Units sold of the Fund of 1,091,500,000 units or equivalent to
72.06 percent of the total number of Investment Units sold of the Fund (while
there were unitholders who did not approve or abstain their votes and invalid
ballots in the number of 64,355,600 votes or equivalent to 5.90 percent of the
total number of Investment Units sold of the Fund) that the Fund shall
increase its capital by an amount up to Baht 6,706.00 million from the existing
amount of Baht 10,915.00 million to a new amount of up to Baht 17,621.00
million through the issue and offer for sale of up to 839,000,000 additional
Investment Units at the unit value to be determined by the Investment
Committee. In this regard, the number of the new Investment Units to be
issued and offered for sale shall not result in the forecast distribution per
unit which the Unitholders are anticipated to receive after the new investment
of the Fund, to be lower than the forecast distribution per unit which the
Unitholders will receivefrom the initial investment in real properties of the
Fund, based on the Unaudited Prospectvie Financial Information for the
Projection Year 2010. In addition, the final value of the Fund's capital
increase and/or the final number of the additional Investment Units to be
offered for sale as proposed herein may be lower than the value of the Fund's
capital increase and the number of additional Investment Units to be issued
and offered for sale as provided above. The price of the additional Investment
Units issued and offered for sale shall be determined by the Management
Company which reflects a value of the real properties in which the Fund will
invest and will be the price that acceptable to the owner of the real
properties and by taken into accounts, among other things, the following
factors:
- the prevailing market price of the Fund's Investment Units on
the Stock Exchange of Thailand during the period when the additional
Investment Units are issued and offered for sale;
- the value of the real properties provided by independent
appraisers;
- general market conditions; and
- indication of interests received from investors
The new Investment Units allotted in the rights offering and those
allotted to others investors shall be offered at the same price.
Furthermore, for the benefit of the said additional investment in
the real properties,the Management Company may arrange the Fund to borrow
from Thai financial institutions in the amount not more than 10 percent of the
net asset value of the
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Fund after the capital increase of the Fund. In this regards, the
final amount of the loan will be determined by the Management Company by
considering of the benefit of the Unitholder as priority. The Management
Company shall be authorized to determine the amount of the loan which the Fund
will borrow from the Thai financial institution and shall be authorized to
determine the borrowing interest rate, the term of the loan including any
terms and conditions and shall have the power to negotiate,enter in to,
execute, deliver any document relavant to the loan and to appoint and/or
remove any substitutes for accomplishment of the foregoing acts.
The price, which the Fund will invest in the real properties, will
be determined by the proceeds which the Fund will receive from its capital
increase and loan (if any),deducted by estimated expenses related to the
capital increase and the additional investment in real properties. The price
of the investment in these real properties will not be higher than the lowest
price obtained from the valuation report of the independent property
appraisers mentioned above in excess of 20 percent. The objectives of this
capital increase and the borrowing (in any) are to invest in the
additional real properties, being the Real Properties of CentralPlaza Pinklao
Project and seek benefits therefrom with the aim to generate income and
returns to the Fund and the Unitholders, as the Management Company anticipates
that these additional real properties investment will enhance the Unitholders'
opportunity to receive returns in the form of increased distribution per unit
and will help in diversifying the Fund's particular source of income.
In addition, as the Fund Manager shall make the additional
investment in these real properties at the price not higher than the lowest
price obtained from the valuation report of the independent property
appraisers in excess of 20 percent, and such valuation reports of the real
properties shall be conducted not exceeding 6 months before the investment is
made, thus, after the Unitholders pass the resolution approving the capital
increase for making the additional investment of the Fund, it shall be deemed
that the Unitholders' resolutions will be valid for the period of one
year after the date that Unitholders' resolution has been passed. In addition,
the Management Company shall be authorized to consider the additional
investment in the real properties, including to determine the amount of
capital to be increased, number and price of the additional Investment Units
which will be issued and offered for sale, and/or the details of loan (if
any), provided that the price of the investment in such real properties shall
not exceed the price approved by the Unitholders' Meeting of the Fund
No.1/2009 held on 17 August 2009 (this Meeting) and such price shall not be
higher than the lowest price obtained from the valuation report of the
independent property appraisers in excess of 20 percent.
In addition, the Management Company shall be empowered to take the
following actions:
1) To determine the net increased capital, the number and the price
of the additional Investment Units to be issued and offered for sale, the loan
(if any), in accordance with the methods approved by the unitholders.
2) To do any other acts which are necessary or relevant to accomplish
the foregoing acts in all respects and to appoint and/or remove any
substitutes for accomplishment of the acts above.
3. Approved with affirmative votes of 803,150,102 units from the total
number of Investment Units sold of the Fund of 1,091,500,000 units or
equivalent to 73.58 percent of the total number of Investment Units sold of
the Fund (while there were unitholders who did not
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approve or abstain their votes and invalid ballots in the number of 47,748,300
votes or equivalent to 4.37 percent of the total number of Investment Units
sold of the Fund) that the fund shall offer for sale the additional Investment
Units in two portions according to the details as set out below.
1st Portion: To allot not less than 50 per cent of the total number of the
Investment Units to be issued and offered for sale to the existing unitholders
whose names appear in the register of unitholders (Rights Offering). The
proportion for such offering will be calculated from the amount of the total
number of the issued and sold Investment Units before the capital increase of
the Fund divided by the total number of the Investment Units to be issued and
offered for sale as the 1st Portion at the unit price to be fixed by the
Investment Committee according to the method to be further determined. The
existing unitholders may declare their intention to buy the new Investment
Units according to their entitlement, more than their entitlement, or less
than their entitlement or not to exercise their rights to subscribe for the new
Investment Units offered for sale as proposed herein.
In the event that the allotment proportion relating to the
entitlement of the existing unitholders results in any of the existing
unitholders being entitled to subscribe for a fraction of an Investment Unit
that cannot be allotted as a full Investment Unit, such fraction of the
Investment Unit shall be rounded down to the nearest whole unit. The
Management Company shall then combine the unsubscribed Investment Units from
such allotment with the Investment Units which are not subscribed for due to
the existing unitholders have not exercised their rights or have not made a
timely subscription or have not made a full subscription, or for any reason
whatsoever, and offer them for sale by an allotment in the following order:
1 In the event that there are sufficient unsubscribed
Investment Units under the Rights Offering portion to serve all existing
unitholders wishing to subscribe for the new Investment Units in excess of
their rights, the unsubscribed Investment Units shall be allotted to all of
such unitholders wishing to subscribe for the new Investment Units in excess
of their rights pursuant to the number of Investment Units that each
unitholder wishes to subscribe for; or
2 In the event that the unsubscribed Investment Units
under the Rights Offering portion are not sufficient to serve all existing
unitholders wishing to subscribe for the new Investment Units in excess of
their rights, the unsubscribed Investment Units will be allotted to each
unitholder wishing to subscribe for the new Investment Units in excess of
their rights on a pro rata basis to the number of Investment Units to be
subscribed for by each of such unitholders exercising in excess of their rights.
3 In the event that there are unsubscribed Investment
Units under the Public Offering portion as specified in the 2nd Portion, such
unsubscribed Investment Units will be allotted to each existing unitholder
wishing to subscribe for the new Investment Units in excess of their rights,
who has not been fully allotted.
If there are unsubscribed Investment Units after the offering for sale
under Sections 1 or 2 above, the Management Company is authorised to offer and
allot such
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unsubscribed Investment Units to specific investors on a private placement
basis or to retail investors on a Public Offering basis in the 2nd Portion
according to the method as it deems appropriate.
Central Pattana Public Company Limited, the major unitholder of the
Fund and the owner of the real properties which will be invested by the Fund,
intends to maintain its unitholding position in the Fund. In this regard, such
unitholding of Central Pattana Public Company Limited shall not cause Central
Pattana Public Company Limited and person(s) of the same group of persons to
hold the Investment Units of the Fund exceeding the ratio permitted by the
relevant law. In this regard, existing unitholders wishing to subscribe for
additional Investment Units in excess of their rights shall state their
intention and pay for the subscription price of the excess Investment Units
together with the subscription price of the Investment Units subscribed for
under the Rights Offering. The date of closure of the unitholders' register
book and suspension of transfer of the Investment Units for the purpose of
determining the existing unitholders' entitlement to subscribe for the new
Investment Units to be issued and offered for sale will be the date after the
Office of the SEC approves the capital increase of the Fund as proposed. The
existing unitholders will be entitled to the rights to subscribe for the
new Investment Units after the office of the SEC approves the capital
increase of the Fund. The Management Company will notify the Stock Exchange
of Thailand of the date of closure of the unitholders' register book in due
course.
2nd Portion: To allot not more than 50 per cent of the total new
Investment Units to investors who are retail investors ("Public Offering")
and/or specific investors on a private placement basis ("Private Placement")
who are qualified under the relevant notification of the Office of the SEC.
The Management Company will allot the Investment Units under the private
placement basis according to the demand to purchase the Investment Units of
the investors, and will allot the Investment Units under the public offering
basis according to small lots first method, at the unit price determined by
the Investment Committee.
In the case that the demand to purchase the Investment Units by the
subscribers under private placement basis exceeds the number of the Investment
Units eligible for the private placement so that the Management Company is
unable to make a full allotment to all subscribers according to their
subscription amount, the Management Company reserves the right to allot the
Investment Units to the subscribers on a private placement basis according to
any method that the Management Company deems appropriate.
In the event that there are unsubscribed Investment Units under the
Public Offering as specified in the 2nd Portion, the Management Company will
allot such unsubscribed Investment Units to the existing unitholders (Rights
Offering) who subscribed for the new Investment Units in excess of their
rights, but have not been fully allotted in the 1st Portion.
In any event, the allotment of the Investment Units by the Management Company
as described above shall not cause any subscriber or any same group of persons
to hold the Investment Units of the Fund exceeding the ratio permitted by the
relevant law.
The Management Company shall file an application with the Stock Exchange of
Thailand for its approval of the listing of the new Investment Units of the
Fund as listed securities within 30 days from the date of closing of the offer
for sale of the Investment Units.
In addition, the Management Company shall be empowered to take the following
actions:
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1) To determine the subscription date, subscription method and
subscription payment after obtaining an approval from the Office of the SEC,
including the number and allotment method of the new Investment Units to be
issued and offered for sale as proposed in all respects.
2) To fix the date of closure of the register and suspension of
transfer of the Investment Units for the purpose of determining the right of
the existing unitholders to subscribe for the new Investment Units to be
issued and offered for sale (Right Offering) after the Office of the SEC
approves this capital increase of the Fund.
3) To exercise its discretion in the allotment of the new Investment
Units to be issued and offered for sale to retail investors ("Public
Offering") and/or specific investors on a private placement basis ("Private
Placement") who are qualified under the relevant notification of the Office of
the SEC. in the 2nd Portion.
4) To fix the offering period of the sale of the new Investment Units
to be issued and offered for sale and to file an application with the Stock
Exchange of Thailand for its approval of the listing of the new Investment
Units of the Fund as listed securities on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
5) To do any other acts which are necessary or relevant to accomplish
the foregoing acts in all respects and to appoint and/or remove any
substitutes for accomplishment of the acts above.
4. Approved with affirmative votes of 790,052,602 units from the total
number of Investment Units sold of the Fund of 1,091,500,000 units or
equivalent to 72.38 percent of the total number of Investment Units sold of
the Fund (while there were unitholders who did not approve or abstain their
votes and invalid ballots in the number of 60,845,800 votes or equivalent to
5.57 percent of the total number of Investment Units sold of the Fund)
approved the change of the Management Company including the amendment to the
Fund Management Project to be in line with the change of the Management
Company in relation to the following matters:
4.1 The condition to change the Management Company
To amend that the change of the Management Company shall not
require approval from the Office of the SEC because if the Unitholders'
Meeting has approved the change, the Office of the SEC's approval shall not be
required.
4.2 The effective date of the new Management Company
To amend that the effective date of the new Management Company
shall be on the date that the Unitholders Meeting has approved the change.
4.3 The nomination of new Management Company
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To amend that in the case that the Management Company had
resigned, the Fund Management Company shall nominate a new Management Company
to the Unitholders for consideration.
In addition, the Management Company shall be empowered to take the
following actions:
1) To amend the wording or contents in the Fund Management Project
as necessary and relevant for the benefit of the capital increase and the
borrowing (if any) for the additional investment of the Fund, insofar as they
(more)