Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-014149
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Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: F-1/A
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 approved by the Board and at least a majority of the voting power of shares entitled to vote at a meeting of the Company’s shareholders.

For purposes of this section, “Apollo Group” means Apollo Global Management, LLC and its subsidiaries and certain other specified entities and affiliates.

#### Exclusive Jurisdiction
Unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, in the event that any dispute arises concerning the Companies Act or out of or in connection with our bye-laws, including any question regarding the existence and scope of any bye-law and/or whether there has been any breach of the Companies Act or our bye-laws by one of our officers or directors (whether or not such a claim is brought in the name of a shareholder or in the name of the Company), any such dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Bermuda. Our bye-laws provide that this exclusive jurisdiction provision does not apply to actions predicated upon civil liability protections of U.S. federal securities laws or disputes arising under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.

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#### Outstanding Series of Preference Shares

#### 5.625% Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares
In September 2016, the Board authorized the issuance and sale of our AHL PRD Shares, with a liquidation preference of $25 per share. In September 2016, we issued 10,000,000 AHL PRD Shares for an aggregate amount of $250.0 million.

Dividends on our AHL PRD Shares are payable on a non-cumulative basis only when, as and if declared by the Board at the annual rate of 5.625% of the $25 liquidation preference of each AHL PRD Share, payable quarterly in cash on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year. In the event of our liquidation, winding up or dissolution, our ordinary shares will rank junior to our AHL PRD Shares. Generally, unless the full dividends for the most recently ended dividend period on all outstanding AHL PRD Shares have been declared and paid, we cannot declare or pay a dividend on our ordinary shares.

Whenever dividends on any AHL PRD Shares have not been declared and paid for the equivalent of any six dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, subject to certain conditions, the holders of our AHL PRD Shares, acting together as a single class with holders of any and all other series of preference shares having similar appointing