Exhibit 99.2
500.com limited
(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
to be held on April 8, 2021
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) of 500.com Limited (the “Company”) will be held at 14F, West Side, Block B, Building No. 7, Shenzhen Bay Eco-Technology Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, The People’s Republic of China on April 8, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., local time for the following purposes:
· | To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions: |
1. | as a special resolution that the English name of the Company be changed to “BIT Mining Limited.” |
2. | as an ordinary resolution that the authorised share capital of the Company be increased to US$100,000 divided into 1,600,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each and 400,000,000 Class B Ordinary Shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each, by the creation of 900,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each and 100,000,000 Class B Ordinary Shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.00005 each. |
(Terms used but not defined in this Notice shall have the same meaning as those defined in the Proxy Statement attached)
· | To consider and transact such other business as may properly come before the EGM or any adjournment or adjournments thereof. |
The Board of Directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on March 18, 2021, New York time as the record date (the “Record Date”) for determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of, and to attend and vote at, the EGM or any adjourned meeting thereof. Holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to attend and vote at the EGM and any adjourned meeting thereof. Holders of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying shares must act through Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the depositary of the Company’s ADS program.
Please refer to the Proxy Form, which is attached to and made a part of this notice. The Proxy Statement is also available for viewing on the Investor Relations section of our website at http://ir.500.com/.
Holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares as of the Record Date are cordially invited to attend the EGM in person. Your vote is important. If you cannot attend the EGM in person, you are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form as promptly as possible. We must receive the proxy form before the time of the EGM to ensure your representation at such meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors, | |
/s/ Shengwu Wu | |
Shengwu Wu | |
Chairman |
Shenzhen, The People’s Republic of China
March 19, 2021