Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the special meeting of the shareholders of Copperleaf Technologies Inc. My name is Amos Michelson, Chair of the Board of Directors of the company, and with the consent of the meeting, I will be acting as chairman of this meeting in accordance with the articles and bylaws of the company. Also present with me today is Paul Sakrzewski, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company. In order to increase shareholder attendance from different geographic locations and encourage more active shareholders engagement and participation at the meeting, the meeting will be a virtual-only meeting, conducted via live audio webcast hosted on the Lumi Virtual Shareholder Meeting platform. This allows registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders to vote and to submit questions and comments to the moderator to be read and addressed at the meeting. If you have a question or comment, please submit it through the system now, and we will answer at the appropriate time. Before we begin, I would like to provide a quick overview of the Lumi virtual meeting platform. You should now see the agenda on your screen. At the top of the agenda page is a legend showing four different icons you may click on-screen to access different parts of the platform. For example, to ask a question at any time, click the comment bubble icon. The voting icon will only be displayed once the polls are open. Participation in the discussion of any motion this morning will be limited to registered shareholders and the duly appointed proxies. If you have a question or comment, please submit it through the Lumi platform now, and we will answer it at the appropriate time. Beneficial shareholders who have also duly appointed themselves as proxy holders are able to attend the meeting as guests and view the webcast, but are not able to participate or vote at the meeting. I call the meeting to order, and we will now proceed with the formal portion of the meeting. Sandra McKay, Global Vice President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of the company, will serve as Recording Secretary of this meeting. Stacey Diocampo of Odyssey Trust Company, the transfer agent for the company, will act as scrutineer of this meeting. Unless there is an objection or question regarding the appointment of the recording secretary or the scrutineer, we will proceed to the next portion of the meeting. As no objections have been received, I will now move to the constitution of the meeting. The purpose of today's meeting is set out in the Management Information Circular of the company, dated June 28, 2024. The notice of meeting, circular form of proxy, voting instructions form, and other related meeting materials were delivered to the shareholders of record on July 4, 2024. I have before me an attestation from Odyssey Trust Company as to the proof of service of the applicable meeting materials, including the notice of meeting to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 25, 2024. I direct that the secretary annex such affidavit to the minutes of this meeting as is scheduled. Copies of the circular and other meeting materials are available under the company profile on SEDAR+. Unless there's any objection, I will now dispense with the reading of the notice. As no objections have been received, I dispense with the reading of the notice, and we now move to the scrutineer's report and quorum of the meeting. The scrutineer has provided me with a preliminary scrutineer's report regarding shareholder attendance at the meeting. The preliminary scrutineer's report indicates that there are zero shareholders present virtually, 52 shareholders presented by proxy, representing 62,569,049 common shares, for a total number of 62,569,049 common shares being represented at the meeting, representing 80.9% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the company. The quorum at the shareholders meeting of the company should constitute two or more persons, with the holders of no less than 25% plus one of the common shares entitled to vote at the meeting are present, virtually or presented by proxy. The Scrutineer's Report shows a quorum of shareholders of the company to be present, and I therefore declare the requisite quorum to be present at the meeting, and the meeting to be properly called and duly constituted for the transaction of the business. I direct that the Secretary annex the formal and final Scrutineer's Report to the minutes of the meeting as scheduled. Before commencing the business of the meeting, I would like to comment on voting procedure. We have received all proxy voting results for today's resolution in advance of this meeting. If you have previously voted by proxy, there is no need for you to do anything. Your votes will already have been co-counted or will be cast by the person you appointed as your shareholder, the proxy holder, sorry. By voting again, you will revoke any previous proxy submitted prior to the proxy cutoff. Anyone in attendance today who has not yet voted and is not signed in as a guest will have an opportunity to vote online in real time using the Lumi platform, if you choose to do so. We will allow shareholders and proxy holders to cast their votes on the arrangement resolution and then have a brief pause in the proceedings while the votes are counted, so we can advise the meeting of the results, those votes, before proceeding further. Instructions on how to ask questions will appear on your screens. Our service provider for this platform at Lumi are available to assist if required. We will now open the polls for voting. Shareholders and duly appointed proxies should now see your screens change to show the single item of business for today's meeting. You will have from now until I announce the conclusion of the meeting, of the voting, to cast your votes on the arrangement resolution. The purpose of the meeting is for shareholders to consider, and if deemed advisable, to pass, with or without variation, a special resolution to approve a statutory plan of arrangement pursuant to Section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act, involving the company Industrial and Financial Systems, IFS AB, and 16091857 Canada Inc., as purchaser, a wholly owned subsidiary of IFS, under which the purchaser will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the company at the price of CAD 12 in cash per common share. The full text of the resolution to approve the arrangement and full particulars of the arrangement are as more particularly described in the circular. To be effective, the arrangement resolution must be approved by an affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the votes cast by shareholders who are present virtually or presented by proxy on the arrangement resolution. To facilitate the proceedings, I've asked Paul Sakrzewski to move the motions. May I have a motion that I dispense with the reading of the arrangement resolution? I so move. May I have a motion that the arrangement resolution be approved? I so move. The motion is now open for discussion. If anyone has any questions regarding the proposed arrangement agreement, could you please submit your questions through the Lumi platform, and we will deal with your questions from there. As there are no questions, I will now proceed. I would now ask shareholders and proxy holders present online to vote on the Lumi platform in respect to the arrangement resolution. We will take a few moments to allow everyone to vote, cast their votes. Thank you. Voting is now closed. I, I've now been advised by the scrutineer that the poll motion duly made, it was resolved as a special resolution that the arrangement resolution be approved and carried by all holders of common shares of the company. I direct that the final report on ballots be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as scheduled. The final results will be announced by press release and posted to SEDAR+. On behalf of the board of directors, I would like to express our appreciation to our shareholders who have voted on the motion put forward to this meeting. Shareholders had an important decision before them. We thank you sincerely for your support of the company. The formal items of business as set out in the notice that have now been dealt with. Is there any further business? As there is no further business, can I please have a motion that the meeting be concluded? I move that the meeting be concluded. Is there any objection to the meeting being terminated? As there are no objections, we will proceed. All those in favor? All those against? I declare that the meeting is terminated. I would like to thank all of you for your support of the company, and have a great day. Thank you.
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