YOUR PROMPT ACTION IS REQUESTED. WE URGE YOU TO CONTACT YOUR CLIENTS AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE.
Please furnish copies of the following enclosed materials to those of your clients for whose accounts you hold ADSs in your name or in the name of your securities intermediary:
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the U.S. Offer to Purchase;
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a printed form of letter to clients for whose accounts you hold ADSs registered in your name or in the name of your securities intermediary, with space provided for obtaining such clients’ instructions with regard to the Offer;
3.
the ADS Letter of Transmittal, for information purposes; and
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a Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, to be used by your clients to accept the Offer if the procedures set forth in the Offer to Purchase to tender ADSs cannot be completed prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date.
Your attention is directed to the following:
1.
The Offer commenced on October 6, 2022 and will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 4, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated.
2.
The Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions described in The U.S. Offer — Section 11 — “Conditions to the U.S. Offer” of the Offer to Purchase.
3.
Purchaser will not pay any brokerage fees or commissions to any broker or dealer or to any other person (other than to the Dealer Manager) in connection with the solicitation of tenders of ADSs or Series B Shares pursuant to the Offer. Brokers, dealers, commercial banks, trust companies and other securities intermediaries will, upon request, be reimbursed by Purchaser for customary mailing and handling expenses incurred by them in forwarding offering materials to their customers.
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If required by U.S. federal income tax laws, Citibank, N.A. (the “Tender Agent”) generally will be required to backup withhold at the applicable backup withholding rate from any payments made to certain U.S. holders of ADSs pursuant to the Offer.
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To validly tender ADSs, send the ADS Letter of Transmittal properly completed and duly executed bearing an original signature (with any required signature guarantees), and all other required documents (including American Depositary Receipts evidencing tendered ADSs, if applicable), to the Tender Agent at one of its addresses set forth at the end of the Offer to Purchase as soon as possible and in any event before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date, unless the Offer is extended.
a.
In order for a book-entry transfer of ADSs held through a broker or other securities intermediary to constitute a valid tender of ADSs in the Offer, the ADSs must be tendered by the holder’s securities intermediary before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date. Further, before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date, the Tender Agent must receive (i) a confirmation of a book-entry transfer of the tendered ADSs into the Tender Agent’s account at The Depository Trust Company and (ii) an Agent’s Message (as described in the Offer to Purchase) before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date.
b.
Holders of ADSs that cannot deliver such ADSs and all other required documents to the Tender Agent before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date may nevertheless tender such ADSs by executing a Notice of Guaranteed Delivery and following the guaranteed delivery procedures described in the Offer to Purchase.
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Under no circumstances will interest be paid on the U.S. Offer Price, regardless of any extension of the Offer or any delay in making payment for the ADSs.