Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-014149
Chunk: 103

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 103
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-laws and subject to Bermuda law, we have the option, but not the obligation, to require a shareholder to sell to us or a third party at fair market value, as determined in the good faith discretion of the Board, the minimum number of ordinary shares which is necessary to eliminate any material adverse tax consequences to us, our subsidiaries, our shareholders or their affiliates or any direct or indirect investor in, or any other person holding a direct or indirect beneficial or economic ownership interest in, a shareholder of ours if the Board unanimously determines that failure to exercise such option would result in such material adverse tax consequences.

Some of the provisions in our bye-laws and in the laws and regulations of the jurisdictions where we conduct business could delay or deter a takeover attempt that shareholders might consider desirable and may make it more difficult to replace members of the Board.

Our bye-laws contain provisions that may entrench directors and make it more difficult for shareholders to replace directors even if shareholders consider it beneficial to do so. These provisions could delay or prevent a change of control that shareholders might consider favorable. For example, these provisions may prevent a shareholder from receiving the benefit from any premium over the market price of our ordinary shares offered by a bidder in a potential takeover. Even in the absence of an attempt to effect a change in management or a takeover attempt, these provisions may adversely affect the prevailing market price of our ordinary shares if they are viewed as discouraging changes in management and takeover attempts in the future.

For example, our bye-laws contain the following provisions that could have such an effect:

• directors may decline to approve or register a transfer of any ordinary shares if it appears to the Board, in its sole discretion, after taking into account the limitations on voting rights contained in our bye-laws, that any non-de minimis adverse tax, regulatory or legal consequences to us, any of our subsidiaries, any of our shareholders or their affiliates or any direct or indirect investor in, or beneficial owner of an interest in, a shareholder of ours would result from such transfer;

• the Board has the option, but not the obligation, to require a shareholder to sell to us or a third party at fair market value, as determined in the good faith discretion of the Board, the minimum number of ordinary shares which is necessary to eliminate any material adverse tax consequences to us, our subsidiaries, our shareholders or their affiliates or any direct or indirect investor in, or any other person holding a direct or indirect beneficial or economic ownership interest in, a shareholder of ours if the Board unanimously determines that failure