Company: ARBK
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001104659-25-049311
Chunk: 72

Company: Argo Blockchain Plc
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4A
Chunk 72
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 the voting shares, and (2) not less than 90% of the voting rights carried by those shares. The offeror may impose a time limit on the rights of minority shareholders to be bought out that is not less than three months after the end of the acceptance period. If a shareholder exercises his rights to be bought out, the offeror is required to acquire those shares on the terms of this offer or on such other terms as may be agreed.

Disclosure of Interest in Shares

Pursuant to Part 22 of the Companies Act, we are empowered by notice in writing to require any person whom we know or have reasonable cause to believe to be interested in our shares, or at any time during the three years immediately preceding the date on which the notice is issued has been so interested, within a reasonable time to disclose to us particulars of that person’s interest and (so far as is within his knowledge) particulars of any other interest that subsists or subsisted in those shares.

Under our Articles of Association, if a person defaults in supplying us with the required particulars in relation to the shares in question, or default shares, within the prescribed period, the directors may by notice direct that:

  in respect of the default shares, the relevant shareholder shall not be entitled to vote (either in person or by representative or proxy) at any general meeting or to exercise any other right c...  

  where the default shares represent at least 0.25% in nominal value of the issued shares of their class, (a) any dividend or other money payable in respect of the default shares shall be retaine...  

Pursuant to the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“ DTRs”), a shareholder of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom and whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market (as our shares are by virtue of their admission to the Transition segment of the Official List and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange) is required to notify the Company, as soon as possible and in any event within two trading days, of the percentage of voting rights that shareholder holds or is deemed to hold through his direct and indirect holding of financial instruments (as more particularly set out in the DTRs), or a combination of such holdings, if the percentage of those voting rights (aggregated if required by the DTRs):

  (1)      reaches, exceeds or falls below 3%, 4%, 5%, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%,