EX-2.(D) 2 f20f2019ex2d_therapixbio.htm DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

Exhibit 2(d)

 

Description of Rights of Each Class of Securities

 

Type and Class of Securities

 

Therapix Biosciences Ltd.’s (the “Company”) authorized share capital consisted of 1,000,000,000 ordinary shares, NIS 0.1 par value per share (“Ordinary Shares”). All of the Company’s outstanding Ordinary Shares have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable.

 

Preemptive Rights

 

The Company’s Ordinary Shares are not redeemable and are not subject to any preemptive right.

 

Limitations or Qualifications

 

Not applicable.

 

Other Rights

 

Not applicable.

 

Rights of the Shares

 

The Company’s Ordinary Shares shall confer upon the holders thereof:

 

  equal right to attend and to vote at all of the Company’s general meetings, whether regular or special, with each Ordinary Share entitling the holder thereof, which attend the meeting and participate at the voting, either in person or by a proxy or by a written ballot, to one vote;
     
  equal right to participate in distribution of dividends, if any, whether payable in cash or in bonus shares, in distribution of assets or in any other distribution, on a per share pro rata basis; and
     
  equal right to participate, upon the Company’s dissolution, in the distribution of the Company’s assets legally available for distribution, on a per share pro rata basis.

 

All Ordinary Shares have identical voting and other rights in all respects.

 

Changing Rights Attached to Shares

 

Unless otherwise provided by the terms of the shares and subject to any applicable law, in order to change the rights attached to any class of shares, such change must be adopted at a general meeting of the affected class or by a written consent of all the shareholders of the affected class.

  

The enlargement of an existing class of shares or the issuance of additional shares thereof, shall not be deemed to modify the rights attached to the previously issued shares of such class or of any other class, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the shares.

 

Limitations on the Rights to Own Ordinary Shares

 

The Company’s fully paid Ordinary Shares are issued in registered form and may be freely transferred under the Company’s articles of association, unless the transfer is restricted or prohibited by another instrument, applicable law, or the rules of a stock exchange on which the shares are listed for trade. The ownership or voting of the Company’s Ordinary Shares by non-residents of Israel is not restricted in any way by the Company’s articles of association or the laws of the State of Israel, except for ownership by nationals of some countries that are, or have been, in a state of war with Israel.

 

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Provisions Restricting Change in Control of the Company’s Company and Ownership Threshold - Acquisitions under Israeli Law

 

Merger

 

The Israeli Companies Law (the “Companies Law”) includes provisions that allow a merger transaction and requires that each company that is a party to the merger have the transaction approved by its board of directors and a vote of the majority of its shares (unless certain requirements described under the Companies Law are met) and, in the case of the target company, a majority vote of each class of its shares, voted on the proposed merger at a shareholders meeting.

 

For purposes of the shareholder vote of each party, unless a court rules otherwise, the merger will not be deemed approved if shares representing a majority of the voting power present at the shareholders meeting and which are not held by the other party to the merger (or by any person who holds 25% or more of the voting power or the right to appoint 25% or more of the directors of the other party) vote against the merger. If, however, the merger involves a merger with a company’s own controlling shareholder or if the controlling shareholder has a personal interest in the merger, then the merger is instead subject to the same special majority approval that governs all extraordinary transactions with controlling shareholders.

 

If the transaction would have been approved by the shareholders of a merging company but for the separate approval of each class or the exclusion of the votes of certain shareholders as provided above, a court may still approve the merger upon the request of holders of at least 25% of the voting rights of a company, if the court holds that the merger is fair and reasonable, taking into account the value of the parties to the merger and the consideration offered to the shareholders of the target company.

 

Upon the request of a creditor of either party to the proposed merger, the court may delay or prevent the merger if it concludes that there exists a reasonable concern that as a result of the merger the surviving company will be unable to satisfy the obligations of any of the parties to the merger and may further give instructions to secure the rights of creditors. In addition, a merger may not be completed unless at least (1) 50 days have passed from the time that the requisite proposals for approval of the merger were filed with the Israeli Registrar of Companies by each merging company and (2) 30 days have passed since the merger was approved by the shareholders of each merging company.

 

Special Tender Offer

 

The Companies Law also provides that an acquisition of shares in a public company must be made by means of a special tender offer if as a result of the acquisition (i) the purchaser would become a 25% or greater shareholder of the company, unless there is already another 25% or greater shareholder of the company or (ii) the purchaser would become a more than 45% shareholder of the company, unless there is already a shareholder holding more than 45% of the company, subject to certain exceptions. These requirements do not apply if, in general, the acquisition (i) was made in a private placement that received shareholder approval, (ii) was from a 25% or greater shareholder of the company which resulted in the acquirer becoming a 25% or greater shareholder of the company, or (iii) was from a shareholder holding more than 45% of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital which resulted in the acquirer becoming a holder of more than 45% of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital.

  

A special tender offer must be extended to all shareholders, but the offeror is not required to purchase more than 5% of the company’s outstanding shares, regardless of how many shares are tendered by shareholders. In general, the tender offer may be consummated only if (i) at least 5% of the company’s outstanding shares will be acquired by the offeror and (ii) the number of shares tendered in the offer exceeds the number of shares whose holders objected to the offer (excluding the purchaser, controlling shareholders, holders of 25% or more of the voting rights in the company or any person having a personal interest in the acceptance of the tender offer). If a special tender offer is accepted, then the purchaser or any person or entity controlling it or under common control with the purchaser or such controlling person or entity may not make a subsequent tender offer for the purchase of shares of the target company and may not enter into a merger with the target company for a period of one year from the date of the offer, unless the purchaser or such person or entity undertook to effect such an offer or merger in the initial special tender offer.

 

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If a tender offer is not accepted in accordance with the requirements set forth above, the acquirer may not acquire shares (either alone or together with others) that will increase its holdings to 25% or more or above 45% (as may be the case) of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital or of the applicable class and such shares shall not bestow upon such acquirer any rights and shall become treasury shares for as long as the acquirer holds said shares. In addition, if a shareholder’s holding in a company increases to 25% or greater of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital or above 45% of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital, among others, as a result of the company’s shares becoming treasury shares following a distribution event, then such excess shares shall not bestow upon their holder any voting rights for as long as the holder holds said excess shares.

 

Full Tender Offer

 

A person wishing to acquire shares of an Israeli public company and who would as a result hold (either alone or together with others) over 90% of the target company’s issued and outstanding share capital is required by the Companies Law to make a tender offer to all of the company’s shareholders for the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of the company. A person wishing to acquire shares of a public Israeli company and who would as a result hold (either alone or together with others) over 90% of the issued and outstanding share capital of a certain class of shares is required to make a tender offer to all of the shareholders who hold shares of the relevant class for the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of that class. If the shareholders who do not accept the offer hold less than 5% of the issued and outstanding share capital of the company or of the applicable class, and more than half of the shareholders who do not have a personal interest in the offer accept the offer, all of the shares that the acquirer offered to purchase will be transferred to the acquirer by operation of law. However, a tender offer will also be accepted if the shareholders who do not accept the offer hold less than 2% of the issued and outstanding share capital of the company or of the applicable class of shares.

 

Upon a successful completion of such a full tender offer, any shareholder that was an offeree in such tender offer, whether such shareholder accepted the tender offer or not, may, within six months from the date of acceptance of the tender offer, petition an Israeli court to determine whether the tender offer was for less than fair value and that the fair value should be paid as determined by the court. However, under certain conditions, the offeror may include in the terms of the tender offer that an offeree who accepted the offer will not be entitled to petition the Israeli court as described above.

 

If a tender offer is not accepted in accordance with the requirements set forth above, the acquirer may not acquire shares from shareholders who accepted the tender offer that will increase its holdings to more than 90% of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital or of the applicable class.

 

If a tender offer is not accepted in accordance with the requirements set forth above, the acquirer may not acquire shares (either alone or together with others) that will increase its holdings to more than 90% of the company’s issued and outstanding share capital or of the applicable class and such shares shall not bestow upon such acquirer any rights and shall become treasury shares for as long as the acquirer holds said shares.

 

Anti-Takeover Provisions under Israeli Law

 

For as long as the Company’s securities were traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the Israeli Securities Law did not allow the Company to create and issue shares having rights different from those attached to the Company’s Ordinary Shares, including shares providing certain preferred rights with respect to voting, distributions, or other matters and shares having preemptive rights. The authorization and designation of a class of preferred shares will require an amendment to the Company’s articles of association, which requires the prior approval of the holders of a majority of the voting power attaching to the Company’s issued and outstanding shares at a general meeting. The convening of the meeting, the shareholders entitled to participate and the majority vote required to be obtained at such a meeting will be subject to the requirements set forth in the Companies Law.

 

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Lastly, Israeli tax law treats some acquisitions, such as stock-for-stock exchanges between an Israeli company and a foreign company, less favorably than U.S. tax laws. For example, Israeli tax law may, under certain circumstances, subject a shareholder who exchanges his Ordinary Shares for shares in another corporation to taxation prior to the sale of the shares received in such stock-for-stock swap.

 

Differences Between Laws of Different Jurisdictions

 

Not applicable.

 

Changes in the Company’s Share Capital

 

The Company’s articles of association enable the Company to increase or reduce the Company’s share capital. Any such changes are subject to the provisions of the Companies Law and must be approved by a resolution duly passed by the Company’s shareholders at a general meeting. In addition, transactions that have the effect of reducing capital, such as the declaration and payment of dividends in the absence of sufficient retained earnings or profits, require the approval of both the Company’s Board of Directors and an Israeli court.

 

The general meeting may, by a simple majority vote of the shareholders attending the general meeting:

 

  increase the Company’s registered share capital by the creation of new shares from the existing class or a new class, as determined by the general meeting;
     
  cancel any registered share capital which has not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person;
     
  consolidate and divide all or any of the Company’s share capital into shares of larger nominal value than the Company’s existing shares;
     
  subdivide the Company’s existing shares or any of them, the Company’s share capital or any of it, into shares of smaller nominal value than is fixed;
     
  reduce the Company’s share capital subject to approval required by the Companies Law; and
     
  modify, cancel, convert, extend, add to or otherwise modify the rights, privileges, advantages, limitations and instructions related or unrelated to the Company’s shares at the time.

 

Debt Securities

 

Not applicable.

 

Warrants and Rights

 

Not applicable.

 

Other Securities

 

Not applicable.

 

 Name of the Depositary

 

The Bank of New York Mellon, as depositary, will register and deliver American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”). Each ADS will represent forty (40) shares (or a right to receive forty (40) shares) deposited with the principal Tel Aviv office of Bank HaPoalim, as custodian for the depositary. Each ADS will also represent any other securities, cash or other property which may be held by the depositary. The depositary’s office at which the ADSs will be administered is located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. The Bank of New York Mellon’s principal executive office is located at 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10286.

 

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American Depositary Shares

 

A holder of the Company’s ADSs (the “Holder”) may hold ADSs either (A) directly (i) by having an ADR, which is a certificate evidencing a specific number of ADSs, registered in the Holder’s name, or (ii) by having ADSs registered in the Holder’s name in the Direct Registration System, or (B) indirectly by holding a security entitlement in ADSs through the ADS Holder’s broker or other financial institution. If the Holder hold ADSs directly, the Holder is a registered ADS holder, also referred to as an ADS holder. This description assumes the Holder is an ADS holder. If the Holder holds the ADSs indirectly, the Holder must rely on the procedures of the Holder’s broker or other financial institution to assert the rights of ADS holders described in this section. The Holder should consult with his broker or financial institution to find out what those procedures are.

 

The Direct Registration System, also referred to as DRS, is a system administered by The Depository Trust Company, also referred to DTC, under which the depositary may register the ownership of uncertificated ADSs, which ownership is confirmed by statements sent by the depositary to the registered holders of uncertificated ADSs.

 

As an ADS holder, the Company will not treat the Holder as one of the Company’s shareholders and the Holder will not have shareholder rights. Israeli law governs shareholder rights. The depositary will be the holder of the shares underlying the Holder’s ADSs. As a registered holder of ADSs, the Holder will have ADS holder rights. A deposit agreement among us, the depositary, ADS holders and all other persons indirectly or beneficially holding ADSs sets out ADS holder rights as well as the rights and obligations of the depositary. New York law governs the deposit agreement and the ADSs.

 

The Company’s articles of association contain a provision that gives the authority to the Company’s Board of Directors (instead of the Company’s officers or shareholders at a general meeting, for example) to refer an action to arbitration. However, such arbitration provision is not mandatory and it does not prevent ADS holders or ordinary shareholders from pursuing claims under the United States federal securities laws.

 

The following is a summary of the material provisions of the deposit agreement. For more complete information, the Holder should read the entire deposit agreement and the form of ADR.

 

Dividends and Other Distributions

 

How will the Holder receive dividends and other distributions on the shares?

 

The depositary has agreed to pay to ADS holders the cash dividends or other distributions it or the custodian receives on shares or other deposited securities, after deducting its fees and expenses. The Holder will receive these distributions in proportion to the number of shares the Holder’s ADSs represent.

 

Cash.

 

The depositary will convert any cash dividend or other cash distribution the Company pays on the shares into U.S. dollars, if it can do so on a reasonable basis and can transfer the U.S. dollars to the United States. If that is not possible or if any government approval is needed and cannot be obtained, the deposit agreement allows the depositary to distribute the foreign currency only to those ADS holders to whom it is possible to do so. It will hold the foreign currency it cannot convert for the account of the ADS holders who have not been paid. It will not invest the foreign currency and it will not be liable for any interest.

 

Before making a distribution, any withholding taxes, or other governmental charges that must be paid will be deducted. It will distribute only whole U.S. dollars and cents and will round fractional cents to the nearest whole cent. If the exchange rates fluctuate during a time when the depositary cannot convert the foreign currency, the Holder may lose some or all of the value of the distribution.

 

Shares.

 

The depositary may distribute additional ADSs representing any shares the Company distributes as a dividend or free distribution. The depositary will only distribute whole ADSs. It will sell shares which would require it to deliver a fraction of an ADS (or ADSs representing those shares) and distribute the net proceeds in the same way as it does with cash. If the depositary does not distribute additional ADSs, the outstanding ADSs will also represent the new shares. The depositary may sell a portion of the distributed shares sufficient to pay its fees and expenses in connection with that distribution (or ADSs representing those shares).

 

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Rights to purchase additional shares.

 

If the Company offers holders of the Company’s securities any rights to subscribe for additional shares or any other rights, the depositary may make these rights available to ADS holders. If the depositary decides it is not legal and practical to make the rights available but that it is practical to sell the rights, the depositary will use reasonable efforts to sell the rights and distribute the proceeds in the same way as it does with cash. The depositary will allow rights that are not distributed or sold to lapse. In that case, the Holder will receive no value for them.

 

If the depositary makes rights available to ADS holders, it will exercise the rights and purchase the shares on the Holder’s behalf. The depositary will then deposit the shares and deliver ADSs to the persons entitled to them. It will only exercise rights if the Holder pays it the exercise price and any other charges the rights require the Holder to pay.

 

U.S. securities laws may restrict transfers and cancellation of the ADSs represented by shares purchased upon exercise of rights. For example, you may not be able to trade these ADSs freely in the United States. In this case, the depositary may deliver restricted depositary shares that have the same terms as the ADSs described in this section except for changes needed to put the necessary restrictions in place.

 

Other Distributions.

 

The depositary will send to ADS holders anything else the Company distributes on deposited securities by any means it thinks is legal, fair and practical. If it cannot make the distribution in that way, the depositary has a choice. It may decide to sell what the Company distributed and distributes the net proceeds, in the same way as it does with cash. Or, it may decide to hold what the Company distributed, in which case ADSs will also represent the newly distributed property. However, the depositary is not required to distribute any securities (other than ADSs) to ADS holders unless it receives satisfactory evidence from the Company that it is legal to make that distribution. The depositary may sell a portion of the distributed securities or property sufficient to pay its fees and expenses in connection with that distribution.

 

The depositary is not responsible if it decides that it is unlawful or impractical to make a distribution available to any ADS holders. The Company has no obligation to register ADSs, shares, rights or other securities under the Securities Act. The Company also has no obligation to take any other action to permit the distribution of ADSs, shares, rights or anything else to ADS holders. This means that the Holder may not receive the distributions the Company makes on the Company’s shares or any value for them if it is illegal or impractical for the Company to make them available to the Holder.

  

Deposit, Withdrawal and Cancellation

 

How are ADSs issued?

 

The depositary will deliver ADSs if the Holder or the Holder’s broker deposits shares or evidence of rights to receive shares with the custodian. Upon payment of its fees and expenses and of any taxes or charges, such as stamp taxes or stock transfer taxes or fees, the depositary will register the appropriate number of ADSs in the names the Holder requests and will deliver the ADSs to or upon the order of the person or persons that made the deposit.

 

How can ADS holders withdraw the deposited securities?

 

The Holder may surrender his ADSs at the depositary’s office. Upon payment of its fees and expenses and of any taxes or charges, such as stamp taxes or stock transfer taxes or fees, the depositary will deliver the shares and any other deposited securities underlying the ADSs to the ADS holder or a person the ADS holder designates at the office of the custodian. Or, at the Holder’s request, risk and expense, the depositary will deliver the deposited securities at its office, if feasible.

 

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How do ADS holders interchange between certificated ADSs and uncertificated ADSs?

 

The Holder may surrender his ADR to the depositary for the purpose of exchanging the Holder’s ADR for uncertificated ADSs. The depositary will cancel that ADR and will send to the ADS holder a statement confirming that the ADS holder is the registered holder of uncertificated ADSs. Alternatively, upon receipt by the depositary of a proper instruction from a registered holder of uncertificated ADSs requesting the exchange of uncertificated ADSs for certificated ADSs, the depositary will execute and deliver to the ADS holder an ADR evidencing those ADSs.

 

Voting Rights

 

How do the Holder vote?

 

ADS holders may instruct the depositary how to vote the number of deposited shares their ADSs represent. Otherwise, the Holder won’t be able to exercise the Holder’s right to vote unless the Holder withdraw the shares. However, the Holder may not know about the meeting enough in advance to withdraw the shares.

 

The depositary will notify ADS holders of shareholders’ meetings and arrange to deliver the Company’s voting materials to them if the Company asks it to. Those materials will describe the matters to be voted on and explain how ADS holders may instruct the depositary how to vote. For instructions to be valid, they much reach the depositary by a date set by the depositary.

 

The depositary will try, as far as practical, subject to the laws of Israel and of the Company’s articles of association or similar documents, to vote or to have its agents vote the shares or other deposited securities as instructed by ADS holders. The depositary will only vote or attempt to vote as instructed or as described in the following sentence. If the Company asked the depositary to solicit the Holder’s instructions at least 30 days before the meeting date but the depositary does not receive voting instructions from the Holder by the specified date, it will consider the Holder to have authorized and directed it to give a discretionary proxy to a person designated by the Company to vote the number of deposited securities represented by the Holder’s ADSs. The depositary will give a discretionary proxy in those circumstances to vote on all questions at to be voted upon unless the Company notifies the depositary that:

 

  the Company does not wish to receive a discretionary proxy;
     
  there is substantial shareholder opposition to the particular question; or
     
  the particular question would have an adverse impact on Company’s shareholders.

 

The Company is required to notify the depositary if one of the conditions specified above exists.

 

The Company cannot assure the Holder that the Holder will receive the voting materials in time to ensure that the Holder can instruct the depositary to vote the Holder’s shares. In addition, the depositary and its agents are not responsible for failing to carry out voting instructions or for the manner of carrying out voting instructions. This means that the Holder may not be able to exercise the Holder’s right to vote and there may be nothing the Holder can do if the Holder’s shares are not voted as the Holder requested.

 

In order to give the Holder a reasonable opportunity to instruct the Depositary as to the exercise of voting rights relating to Deposited Securities, if the Company requests the Depositary to act, the Company agrees to give the Depositary notice of any such meeting and details concerning the matters to be voted upon at least 30 days in advance of the meeting date.

 

 

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