Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-117014
Chunk: 173

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
Chunk 173
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 any class of shares may be held, registered, converted to, transferred or otherwise dealt with, in uncertificated form or certificated form and converted from uncertificated form to certificated form in accordance with the Regulations and the practices instituted by Euroclear UK & International Limited, or such other person as may from time to time be approved by His Majesty’s Treasury under the Regulations as operator of the relevant system. 47

Variation of Class Rights and Alteration of Share Capital Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, the consent in writing of the holders of at least three-quarters in nominal value of the issued shares in a class (excluding any shares held as treasury shares), or the sanction by the shareholders of that class of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting, is required to vary or abrogate the rights of the class, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class. Two persons holding or representing by proxy at least one third of the nominal amount of the shares of the relevant class must be present for the separate general meeting to be valid (except at an adjourned meeting, at which the quorum will be any holder of shares of the class, present in person or by proxy) and any 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