FORWARD TOGETHER Directors’ Report 90 DIRECTORS’ RIGHTS TO ACQUIRE SHARES OR DEBENTURES Save for the information disclosed in the paragraph headed “Directors’ and Chief Executives’ Interests and Short Positions In Shares, Underlying Shares and Debentures” above and with regards to the acquisition of ARA Asset Management Limited and its subsidiaries as disclosed in the announcements of Company dated 4 August 2021, 24 August 2021, 12 October 2021, 3 November 2021 and 20 January 2022 and the circular issued by the Company dated 18 October 2021, at no time during the year ended 31 December 2022 and up to the date of this report was the Company or any of its subsidiaries, holding company or a subsidiary of the Company’s holding company a party to any arrangement whose objects were, or one of whose objects was, to enable the Directors to acquire benefits by means of the acquisition of shares in, or debentures of, the Company or any other body corporate, and none of the Directors of the Company (including their spouses or children under the age of 18) had any interest in or was granted any rights to subscribe for the equity or debt securities of the Company or any other body corporate or had exercised any such right. SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS’ INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS IN SHARES AND UNDERLYING SHARES As at 31 December 2022, so far as the Directors and chief executives of the Company are aware, other than the interests of the Directors and chief executives of the Company as disclosed in the section titled “Directors’ and Chief Executives’ Interests and Short Positions in Shares, Underlying Shares and Debentures”, the following persons had, or were deemed to have, interests or short positions in the Shares and underlying Shares of the Company which would fall to be disclosed to the Company and the Stock Exchange under the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 of Part XV of the SFO or which were required to be recorded in the register required to be kept under section 336 of the SFO: Name of Shareholder Capacity/nature of interest Number of Shares/underlying Shares held (Note 1) Approximate percentage of shareholdings Warburg Pincus & Co. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus China GP, L.P. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus China, L.P. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus Partners GP LLC Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus Partners II, L.P. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus Private Equity XII, L.P. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Warburg Pincus XII, L.P. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% WP Global LLC Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Alexandrite Athena GroupCo Ltd Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 591,440,160 (L) 13.37% Alexandrite Gem Holdings Limited Beneficial owner (Note 2) 503,733,253 (L) 11.39% Alexandrite Gem TopCo Ltd Interest of controlled corporations (Note 2) 503,733,253 (L) 11.39% OMERS Administration Corporation Beneficial owner 456,221,943 (L) 10.32% Mr Stuart Gibson Interest of controlled corporations, interest of spouse and beneficial owner (Notes 3, 5, 6, 8) 451,027,603 (L) 10.20% 149,644,368 (S) 3.38% Mr Charles Alexander Portes Interest of controlled corporations (Note 3, 8) 449,783,103 (L) 10.17% 149,644,368 (S) 3.38% Redwood Investor II (Cayman) Ltd. Interest of controlled corporations (Note 3) 448,933,103 (L) 10.15% 149,644,368 (S) 3.38% Redwood Investor (Cayman) Limited Interest of controlled corporations (Note 3) 448,933,103 (L) 10.15% Kurmasana Holdings, LLC Interest of controlled corporation (Note 3) 448,933,103(L) 10.15% Redwood Investment Company, Ltd. Beneficial owner (Note 3) 448,933,103(L) 10.15%
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