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AMENDED AND RESTATED BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT among GLOBE SPECIALTY METALS, INC., GRUPO FERROATLÁNTICA, S.A.U., GRUPO VILLAR MIR, S.A.U., VELONEWCO LIMITED and GORDON MERGER SUB, INC. Dated as of May 5, 2015

Business Combination Agreement • May 6th, 2015 • Globe Specialty Metals Inc • Primary smelting & refining of nonferrous metals • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Business Combination Agreement
• Filed
  May 6th, 2015
• Company
  Globe Specialty Metals Inc
• Industry
  Primary smelting & refining of nonferrous metals
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of May 5, 2015, by and among Globe Specialty Metals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GSM”), Grupo Villar Mir, S.A.U., a Spanish public limited liability company in the form of a sociedad anónima (“Grupo VM”), Grupo FerroAtlántica, S.A.U., a Spanish public limited liability company in the form of a sociedad anónima and wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo VM (“FA”), Velonewco Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo VM (“Holdco”), and Gordon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdco (“Merger Sub”), amends and restates in its entirety that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of February 23, 2015 (the “Original BCA”, and such date, the “Original Execution Date”), by and among GSM, Grupo VM, FA, Holdco and Merger Sub.

BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT among GLOBE SPECIALTY METALS, INC., GRUPO FERROATLÁNTICA, S.A.U., GRUPO VILLAR MIR, S.A.U., VELONEWCO LIMITED and GORDON MERGER SUB, INC. Dated as of February 23, 2015

Business Combination Agreement • February 23rd, 2015 • Globe Specialty Metals Inc • Primary smelting & refining of nonferrous metals • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Business Combination Agreement
• Filed
  February 23rd, 2015
• Company
  Globe Specialty Metals Inc
• Industry
  Primary smelting & refining of nonferrous metals
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

THIS BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of February 23, 2015, by and among Globe Specialty Metals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GSM”), Grupo Villar Mir, S.A.U., a Spanish public limited liability company in the form of a sociedad anónima (“Grupo VM”), Grupo FerroAtlántica, S.A.U., a Spanish public limited liability company in the form of a sociedad anónima and wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo VM (“FA”), Velonewco Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo VM (“Holdco”), and Gordon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdco (“Merger Sub”).