
Resolutions 7 and 8: Appointment of auditors and determination of auditors’ remuneration
At each general meeting at which the accounts are laid before shareholders, the Company is required to appoint auditors to serve until the next such general meeting. KPMG LLP has indicated its willingness to continue to act as the Company’s auditors. Accordingly, Resolution 7 is an ordinary resolution to re-appoint KPMG LLP, an English registered limited liability partnership, as the Company’s statutory auditor in the UK to serve until the next AGM of the Company.
Resolution 8 is an ordinary resolution giving the Company’s Audit Committee authority to determine the auditors’ remuneration for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2022.
The Board of Directors recommend a vote for the approval of Resolutions 7 and 8.
Resolution 9: Receipt of the reports and accounts
The Companies Act 2006 (the “CA 2006”) requires the directors of a public company to lay, in respect of each financial year, copies of the directors’ reports, the independent auditors’ report and the audited financial statements of the Company before the Company’s shareholders. Each report and the audited financial statements of the Company are contained in the 2021 Annual Report. In accordance with best practice, the Company proposes an ordinary resolution to receive the 2021 Annual Report.
The 2021 Annual Report may be found in the “Investor Relations” section of the Company website at: https://ir.achillestx.com/agm2022.
The Board of Directors recommend a vote for the approval of Resolution 9.
Resolution 10: Directors’ Remuneration Policy
In accordance with the requirements of the CA 2006, as a UK resident company listed on Nasdaq, the Company is required to establish a Directors’ Remuneration Policy containing a framework of limits within which the Remuneration Committee of the Board is authorised by shareholders to operate. This policy must be approved by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders at the first general meeting of the Company at which the Company lays copies of the directors’ reports, the independent auditors’ report and the audited financial statements of the Company before the Company’s shareholders and every three years thereafter.
Given that the forthcoming AGM is the first at which the Company is required to lay the Directors’ Remuneration Policy before the shareholders, the Company is seeking shareholder approval in respect of the proposed Directors’ Remuneration Policy, which sets out the Company’s forward-looking policy on Directors’ remuneration.
Further details of the proposed Directors’ Remuneration Policy are set out on pages 15 to 24 of the 2021 Annual Report.
The Board of Directors recommend a vote for the approval of Resolution 10.
Resolution 11: UK statutory directors’ annual report on remuneration
The CA 2006 requires that the annual report on directors’ remuneration, contained within the 2021 Annual Report, be subject to an annual advisory, non-binding vote so that shareholders may indicate, by voting on an ordinary resolution, their approval of the remuneration of the Company’s directors in the relevant financial year, as well as how the Company’s remuneration policy will be applied in the following financial year.
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