Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-011593
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 6-K
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there are no arrangements (whether by way of option, indemnity or otherwise) in relation to the Hang Seng Bank Shares or shares of HSBC Asia Pacific and which might be material to the Proposal;

(e)

there are no agreements or arrangements to which HSBC Asia Pacific is a party which relate to the circumstances in which it may or may not invoke, or seek to invoke, a Condition;

(f)

save as disclosed in the section headed " VI. Shareholding Structure of Hang Seng Bank" above, none of HSBC Asia Pacific or any HSBC Asia Pacific Concert Party has borrowed or lent any relevant securities in Hang Seng Bank (save for any borrowed Hang Seng Bank Shares which has been either on-lent or sold);

(g)

HSBC Asia Pacific is not aware of any understanding, arrangement, agreement or special deal (as defined under Rule 25 of the Takeovers Code) between (1) any Hang Seng Bank Shareholder on the one hand (excluding, for these purposes, any HSBC Group entities that are Hang Seng Bank Shareholders), and (2) HSBC Asia Pacific or any HSBC Asia Pacific Concert Parties (excluding Hang Seng Bank, its subsidiaries and associated companies) on the other hand; and

(h)

Hang Seng Bank is not aware of any understanding, arrangement, agreement or special deal (as defined under Rule 25 of the Takeovers Code) between (1) any Hang Seng Bank Shareholder on the one hand (excluding, for these purposes, any HSBC Group entities that are Hang Seng Bank Shareholders), and (2) Hang Seng Bank, its subsidiaries or associated companies on the other hand; and

(i)

other than the Scheme Consideration payable under the Scheme, HSBC Asia Pacific and the HSBC Asia Pacific Concert Parties have not paid, and will not pay, any other consideration, compensation or benefit in whatever form to the Scheme Shareholders in relation to the Scheme Shares.

Dealings by or in the capacities as discretionary fund managers, asset managers and principal traders within the HSBC Group (including but not limited to any buy-back under the Hang Seng Bank Share Buy-back Programme) prior to and including the time of publication of this announcement to which Rule 21.6 of the Takeovers Code apply shall not constitute dealings by HSBC Asia Pacific Concert Parties for the purposes of certain rules in the Takeovers Code as set out in Note 1 to Rule 21.6 of the Takeovers Code, but such dealings will be disclosed in