Company: MHLA
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001104659-25-028254
Chunk: 343

Company: Maiden Holdings, Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 343
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 purposes only and will not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

(f) References to “dollars” or “$” mean United States dollars, unless otherwise clearly indicated to the contrary.

(g) The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement; consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as jointly drafted by the parties and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

(h) No summary of this Agreement prepared by or on behalf of any party shall affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

(i) All capitalized terms used without definition in the Exhibits and Schedules (including the Company Disclosure Letter and the Parent Disclosure Letter) to this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in this Agreement.

## ARTICLE II

#### COMPANY CONTRIBUTION; PARENT MERGER
Section 2.01 Company Contribution

(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement:

(i) At the Closing, each Company Equityholder shall contribute, assign, transfer and convey all of the Company Units owned by such Company Equityholder, free and clear of all Liens, to US NewCo, and US NewCo shall acquire and accept the Company Units from each of the Company Equityholders (the “ Company Contribution ”);

(ii) The consideration for the contribution, assignment, transfer and conveyance to US NewCo of the Company Units at the Closing, and the other transactions contemplated hereby, shall be the Company Closing Cash Consideration, Company Closing Interests and the contingent right to receive the Earnout Shares pursuant to Section 2.01(b) (collectively, the “ Company Contribution Consideration ”);

(iii) At the Closing, Parent shall, or shall cause US NewCo to, deposit with the Paying Agent $40,000,000 by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Paying Agent at the Closing Date (“ Company Closing Cash Consideration ”). The Company Closing Cash Consideration shall be allocated among the Company Equityholders as set forth on Section 2.01(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter (the “ Allocation Schedule ”);

(iv) At the Closing, US NewCo shall issue or cause to be issued to the Company Equityholders, an aggregate of fifty-five million (55,000,000) duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable US NewCo