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The Board announces that on 8 January 2016, the Company granted the Options to subscribe for an aggregate of 111,000,000 Shares pursuant to the Scheme, subject to acceptance by the relevant Grantees.
This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 17.06A of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange") (the "Listing Rules").
In order to consistently implement the core values of entrepreneurship of Fosun International Limited (the "Company", with its subsidiaries, collectively known as the "Group"), encourage value creation, active commitment and business contribution by its core management staff, continue to improve on its multi-layered and long-term incentives mechanism, and actively promote management innovation and cultural heritage, the Company has decided to grant share options (the "Options") to the first 18 global core management staff (the "Grantees").
The board of directors (the "Board") of the Company announces that on 8 January 2016 (the "Date of Grant"), subject to the acceptance of the relevant Grantees, the Company has granted 111,000,000 Options to subscribe for an aggregate of 111,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company (the "Shares") under its share option scheme adopted on 19 June 2007 (the "Scheme").
Each Option shall entitle the holder of such Option to subscribe for one Share upon exercise of such Option at an exercise price of HK$11.53 per Share, which represents the highest of (1) the closing price of HK$10.80 per Share as stated in the daily quotation sheet issued by the Stock Exchange on the Date of Grant; (2) the average closing price of HK$11.53 per Share as stated in the daily quotation sheets issued by the Stock Exchange for the five business days immediately preceding the Date of Grant; and (3) the nominal value of a Share (if any). In
aggregate, the Options shall entitle the Grantees to subscribe for 111,000,000 Shares upon exercise of all such Options.
The Options are exercisable by each Grantee in three tranches as set out below:
up to the first 20% of the Options, at any time from the date falling on the fifth anniversary of the Date of Grant till the end of the Option Period (as defined below);
up to a further 30% of the Options, at any time from the date falling on the sixth anniversary of the Date of Grant till the end of the Option Period; and
in respect of the remaining 50% of the Options, which, for the avoidance of doubt, comprise those Options which have not been exercised (and not lapsed) since the fifth anniversary of the Date of Grant, at any time from the date falling on the seventh anniversary of the Date of Grant till the end of the Option Period.
The Options may only be exercised by the Grantees before the end of the 10-year period commencing from the Date of Grant (the "Option Period") and will expire at the end of the Option Period, subject to the relevant provisions for early termination contained in the Scheme.
The exercise of the Options by the Grantees is conditional upon the fulfilment of certain performance targets relating to the Group (the "Performance Target"). The Performance Target has been determined by the Board and specified in the respective grant letters of each Grantee. Unless the Performance Target is met, the Options granted to the Grantees will lapse.
Among the 111,000,000 Options, 40,000,000 Options were granted to the directors of the Company, subject to their respective acceptances of the Options, the list of Grantees is set out as follows:
Name of Grantees | Position |
Ding Guoqi | Executive Director |
Qin Xuetang | Executive Director |
Chen Qiyu | Executive Director |
Xu Xiaoliang | Executive Director |
Pan Donghui | Vice President |
Qian Jiannong | Vice President |
Zhang Houlin | Vice President |
Kang Lan | Vice President |
Li Haifeng | Vice President |
Wang Can | Chief Financial Officer |
Gong Ping | Senior Associate President |
Tang Bin | Senior Associate President |
John Changzheng Ma | Senior Associate President |
Yao Wenping | Senior Associate President |
Gu Xiaoxu | Senior Associate President |
Li Ming | Senior Associate President |
Zhong Lei | Senior Associate President |
Jorge Manuel Baptista Magalhães Correia | Chief Executive Officer of Fidelidade- Companhia de Seguros, S.A. |
The grant of the Options to the above mentioned directors of the Company (namely, the grant of 10,000,000 Options to each of Mr. Ding Guoqi, Mr. Qin Xuetang, Mr. Chen Qiyu and Mr. Xu Xiaoliang) has been approved by the independent non-executive directors of the Company in accordance with Rule 17.04(1) of the Listing Rules. The grant of such Options was also approved by the Board, save that Mr. Ding Guoqi, Mr. Qin Xuetang, Mr. Chen Qiyu and Mr. Xu Xiaoliang each abstained on voting on the relevant resolutions relating to the grant of Options to themselves.
Save as disclosed above, none of the Grantees of the Options is a director, chief executive or substantial shareholder of the Company, or their respective associates (as defined in the Listing Rules).
By Order of the Board
Fosun International Limited Guo GuangchangChairman
Shanghai, the PRC, 8 January 2016
As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors of the Company are Mr. Guo Guangchang, Mr. Liang Xinjun, Mr. Wang Qunbin, Mr. Ding Guoqi, Mr. Qin Xuetang, Mr. Chen Qiyu and Mr. Xu Xiaoliang; and the independent non-executive directors are Mr. Zhang Shengman, Mr. Zhang Huaqiao, Mr. David T. Zhang and Mr. Yang Chao.
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