Exhibit 1
VOTING TRUST EXTENSION AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT entered into as of January 18, 2019 by and among those holders of Common Shares of SIFCO Industries, Inc. executing and delivering this Agreement (“Shareholders”) and JANICE G. CARLSON and CHARLES H. SMITH, III, as Trustees and their successors in trust (said named Trustees and their successors being hereinafter called the “Trustees”);
WITNESSES THAT:
As of February 1, 2017 certain shareholders of SIFCO Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Voting Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”) with respect to their shares of Common Stock in the Company; and
Pursuant to Section 14 of the Trust Agreement, the term of Trust Agreement may be extended for an additional period not to exceed two years upon the concurrence of the holders of Trust Certificates representing not less than 85% of the 1,819,674 shares deposited under the Trust Agreement, (after giving effect to stock dividends issued subsequent to the date of the Trust Agreement, the “Trust Shares”); and
The shareholders constituting the holders of Trust Certificates representing not less than 85% of the Trust Shares wish to extend the term of the Trust Agreement, on the terms and conditions set forth therein, for an additional two (2) years from January 31, 2019.
NOW, THEREFORE, each Shareholder of the Company who becomes a party hereto agrees with each of the other such Shareholders for himself and his heirs, administrators, successors and assigns as follows:
1. EXTENSION OF TRUST AGREEMENT. The Trust Agreement shall be extended, unless sooner terminated on the terms and conditions set forth therein, to January 31, 2021, upon the occurrence prior to January 31, 2019 of the earlier of either:
(a) the execution of this Agreement by the holders of not less than 1,546,723 shares of Common Stock of the Company, such number representing not less than 85% of the Trust Shares,
Or
(b) the presentation to the Company of a certificate signed by the Secretary of the meeting, certifying that at a meeting duly called and held for the purpose of considering an extension, at a place in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, specified in a notice given either by the Trustees or a Trust Certificate holder, not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30)days prior to such meeting to each Trust Certificate holder under the Trust Agreement, the holders of Trust Certificates representing not less than 85% of the Trust Shares voted in favor of this extension.
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