Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001628280-25-023859
Chunk: 99

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 424B4
Chunk 99
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 in order to cover financial risk relating to the pledged ordinary shares.

There are provisions in our bye-laws which may reduce or increase the voting rights of our ordinary shares.

In general, and except as provided below, shareholders have one vote for each ordinary share held by them and are entitled to vote at all meetings of shareholders. However, if, and so long as, the ordinary shares of a shareholder in the Company are treated as “controlled shares” (as defined in our bye-laws by reference to Sections 957 and 958 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) of any U.S. person (as that term is defined in the Code) and such “controlled shares” constitute 9.5% or more of the voting power of all the ordinary shares of the Company and such person would be generally required to recognize income with respect to the Company under Section 951(a)(1) of the Code, if the Company were a controlled foreign corporation as defined in Section 957 of the Code and if the ownership threshold under Section 951(b) of the Code were 9.5% (“9.5% U.S. Shareholder”), the voting rights with respect to the controlled shares owned by such U.S. person shall be limited, in the aggregate, to a voting power of less than 9.5% under a formula specified in our bye-laws. The formula is applied repeatedly until the voting power of all 9.5% U.S. Shareholders has been reduced to less than 9.5%.

In addition, the Board may limit a shareholder’s voting rights when it deems it appropriate to do so to (1) avoid the existence of any 9.5% U.S. Shareholder; and (2) avoid adverse tax, legal or regulatory consequences to the Company, any of its subsidiaries, any shareholder or its 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. “Controlled shares” includes all ordinary shares of the Company that such U.S. person is deemed to own directly, indirectly or constructively (within the meaning of Sections 957 and 958 of the Code). Pursuant to our bye-laws the amount of any reduction of votes that occurs by operation of the above limitations will generally be reallocated proportionately among all other shareholders of the Company whose shares were not “controlled shares” of any 9.5