Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-195127
Chunk: 158

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 158
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 such person may demand a poll. HSBC Holdings may also vary or abrogate rights attached to the shares by a special resolution without the separate consent or sanction of the holders of any class of shares so long as the rights attached to all the shares are varied or abrogated in the same manner and to the same extent. The issuance of new shares ranking in priority to, or pari passuwith, an existing class of shares is not considered to be a “variation” in the rights of already existing shares, unless the existing shares provide so expressly. HSBC Holdings may issue shares with rights or restrictions as it sees fit, including redeemable shares, so long as it does so in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and the Articles of Association and without reducing any rights attached to any existing shares. As a matter of English law, HSBC Holdings may:

| • |     | by ordinary resolution, increase its share capital, consolidate and divide all or any of its shares into shares                                              
 of larger amount, sub-divide all or any of its shares into shares of smaller amount and cancel any shares not taken or agreed to be taken by any person; and |

| • |     | by special resolution, reduce its share capital, any capital redemption reserve, share premium account or other 
 undistributable reserve in any way.                                                                             |

Pre-emptiveRights As HSBC Holdings is a company incorporated in the UK, in general, holders of ordinary shares have automatic pre-emptiverights pursuant to section 561 of the Companies Act 2006. However, these pre-emptiverights can be overridden by a special resolution of the holders of ordinary shares. Lien on Ordinary Shares HSBC Holdings has a lien on ordinary shares which are not fully paid (to the extent permitted by the Companies Act 2006). The board may waive the lien in whole or in part, or temporarily, and may sell ordinary shares subject to a lien as it sees fit. On the terms set out in the Articles of Association, the board is entitled to sell an ordinary share subject to the lien only after giving 14 clear days’ notice of its intent to sell in default. The proceeds of sale will first be applied towards payment of the amount in respect of the lien insofar as it is still payable and then on surrender of the share certificate for cancellation (in the case of ordinary shares in certificated form), to the person entitled to the ordinary shares at the time of sale. Calls From time to time the board may make calls on