Company: KYIV
Filing Date: 2025-07-10
Form Type: F-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-062760
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Company: Kyivstar Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-07-10
Form: F-4/A
Chunk 393
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8 and advising some of KPMG’s largest global advisory and audit clients, including BHP Group, Equinor, LafargeHolcim, Philips Electronics, RD Shell, and Wolters Kluwer. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Soeting served as a global head of the KPMG Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) sector, and as a global Chairman of the KPMG Energy & Natural Resources Board. From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the KPMG Global Markets Steering Committee. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Soeting served as a member of the European Resource Efficiency Platform of the European Commission. Since 2019, Mr. Soeting has taken on various oversight roles, in particular as a director and chair of the Audit Committee at Serica Energy plc in the UK, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Parker College of Business of Georgia Southern University in the U.S. and as a member of the Board of Governors of Reed’s Foundation in the UK. Mr. Soeting graduated from Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he completed his Doctoral studies in economics and a post -Doctoraldegree in accountancy. He holds an MBA from Georgia Southern University. In addition, Mr. Soeting is a qualified Chartered Accountant in both the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Composition of the Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board The Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board will consist of ten directors immediately after Closing. The Kyivstar Group Ltd. Governing Documents provide that the number of directors shall be as the Kyivstar Group Ltd. Board may determine from time to time, but shall be not less than five and not more than eleven directors. Director Independence Immediately after the Closing, Kyivstar Group Ltd. anticipates that the size of our board of directors will be ten directors, six of whom are expected to qualify as independent within the meaning of the independent director guidelines of Nasdaq. Kyivstar Group Ltd. anticipates that Serdar Çetin, Betsy Z. Cohen, Augie K. Fabela II, Rt Hon Sir Brandon Lewis CBE, Duncan Perry and Michiel Soeting will be “independent directors” as defined in the rules of Nasdaq and applicable SEC rules. After the consummation of the Business Combination, VEON Ltd., through the Seller, will own approximately 80% of the equity interests of Kyivstar Group Ltd. As a result