Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Philip Fayer. I am the Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Nuvei Corporation, and I'm pleased to welcome you to Nuvei's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I will be acting as chair of the meeting, and Lindsay Matthews, our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, will be acting as secretary. I'm also joined by David Schwartz, Nuvei's Chief Financial Officer, who will be available to answer questions during the question period. Instructions on how to exercise your voting rights or ask questions during the meeting are currently displayed on your screen. I would like to remind you that registered shareholders and duly appointed and registered proxy holders are the only persons entitled to participate, ask questions, or vote during the meeting. You'll be able to vote on each proposal up until the closing of the vote after the last item of business. You'll be notified when the voting period is over. If you have already voted by proxy, it is not necessary to vote again. Please note, if you choose to vote again, only your vote cast during the meeting will be deemed... will be counted, and the vote that you submitted by proxy will be revoked. Questions will generally appear shortly after they are submitted, but will only be addressed during the question period at the end of the meeting. Provided, however, that questions that relate to procedural matters or the motion before the meeting may be addressed during the meeting. If questions are asked, we will first identify the shareholder or proxyholder asking the question and then read the question out loud so that it may be heard by all of shareholders, proxy holders, and guests present at the meeting. Questions or comments containing inappropriate language or that are otherwise disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting for all shareholders will not be published or answered. Questions which were already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be published or answered. This year's meeting will be held in English. A French presentation and simultaneous French translation are also available. Certain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws may be presented during the course of this meeting. We encourage you to review the cautionary statement relating to the forward-looking information which appear on your screen. I now declare the polls open on all resolutions. The agenda for today's meeting will be as follows: We will begin with the appointment of the scrutineers and the confirmation that a quorum is reached. The company's financial statements for the financial year ended December 31st, 2023, and the independent auditor's report thereon will then be received. Finally, we will elect the company's directors and proceed with the appointment of the company's independent auditor. As provided for in the company's articles, each Multiple Voting Share entitles the holder up to 10 votes, and each Subordinate Voting Share entitles the holders to one vote. At the meeting, the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares and Multiple Voting Shares will vote together as a single class. The meeting will conclude with a question period. Pursuant to the authority granted by us by the company's bylaws, I appoint Francine Beausejour and Jenny Cunningham, representative of the TSX Trust Company as scrutineers of this meeting. The scrutineers have provided me with a copy of their report and informed me that we have a quorum, since at least two persons holding at least 25% of the aggregate number of votes attached to all the voting shares, are present or represented by proxy. The scrutineers' report will be given to the secretary of the meeting and attached to the minutes of this meeting. I also confirm that the secretary has provided me with a copy of the notice of meeting, the management information circular, and forms of proxy. These documents will be attached to the minutes of the meeting. As permitted under Canadian securities laws, the company has used the notice and access regime to make available its meeting materials and sent a notice to all relevant information in that regard to holders of voting shares at the close of business on the record date. The company received confirmation from the TSX Trust Company that such document has been duly sent to the shareholders. Accordingly, I will dispense with the reading of the notice of meeting. I thus declare this meeting validly called and duly constituted for the transaction of business provided for in the notice of meeting. We will now begin the formal portion of the meeting. I refer to the consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended December 31st, 2023, and to the independent auditor's report thereon. These documents have been provided to any shareholder who requested them. We understand that you received these documents and will therefore not ask the secretary of the meeting to read them. We would like to remind you that the consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended December 31, 2023, as well as the auditor's report, are available under Nuvei's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca or on EDGAR at www.sec.gov and on the company's website in the Investor Relations section. The next item on the agenda is the election of directors. In accordance with the Management Information Circular, the following eight candidates have been nominated to be elected as directors of the company and hold such office until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are duly elected or appointed. Timothy A. Dent, Maren Lau, David Lewin, Daniela Mielke, Coretha Rushing, Pascal Tremblay, Samir Zabaneh, and myself, Philip Fayer. The company did not receive notice of any director nominations in connection with the meeting in accordance with its advance notice bylaw. Accordingly, the only persons eligible to be nominated for election to the board of directors of the company are the management nominees. Since there are no other nominations, I move and second a motion to elect the directors. I will now invite you to vote on the election of the directors. The next item on the agenda is the appointment of the auditors for the financial year ending December 31, 2024. Shareholders are asked to reappoint the auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, until the next annual meeting of the shareholders, and to authorize the board of directors to fix its remuneration. The audit committee of the board has approved, subject to shareholder confirmation, the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the company. I move and second a motion that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be appointed as auditor of the company until the next annual meeting of the shareholders, and that the board of directors be authorized to fix the remuneration. I now invite you to vote on the appointment of the company's auditor. Since we have covered all of the topics of the meeting agenda, we'll now take a short break in order to allow registered shareholders and proxy holders to vote if they have not already done so. I remind you that if you have already voted by proxy, it is not necessary to vote again. The voting period is now closed for all the topics on the meeting agenda. The scrutineers have provided us with a preliminary report. I thus declare that a majority of the votes cast by the holders of voting shares of the company were in favor of the elections as directors of each of Timothy A. Dent, Maren Lau, David Lewin, Daniela Mielke, Coretha Rushing, Pascal Tremblay, Samir Zabaneh, and myself, Philip Fayer. I also declare that the majority of the votes cast by the shareholders of voting shares of the company were in favor of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The final voting results for each of the proposals will be filed on SEDAR+ and EDGAR as soon as they are available. We are now opening the question period. Mr. David Schwartz, Chief Financial Officer, and myself are available to answer your questions. I would like to remind you that only registered shareholders and proxy holders are entitled to submit questions. Please do so by typing in your question in the message section appearing on your screen. For each question we answer, we will read out the question as well as the name of the person who asked the question. Please limit your questions on two topics related to today's subject matter. Questions which were already answered or that are redundant or repetitive will not be answered. We have not received any questions yet, but we'll take a short break to allow you to submit your questions, if any, by following the instructions that appear on your screen. As we have now completed the business of the meeting, I now move and second that the meeting be concluded. Thank you for attending Nuvei's annual meeting of shareholders today.
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