Examples of DRD Shares in a sentence
Emperor Shareholders who accept the Offer will be able to trade their DRD Shares on the JSE.
Where DRD CDIs are issued, CHESS Depositary Nominees Pty Ltd (CDN), a wholly owned subsidiary of the ASX, will be registered as the legal owner of DRD Shares on the Australian register, holding on behalf of, and for the benefit of, the CDI holder.A summary of the rights and entitlements of CDI holders is set out below.
To do so, it will be necessary to first convert those DRD CDIs to DRD Shares.
CDIs enable DRD Shares to be cleared and settled electronically on the ASX.
DRD’s shareholder base is international and DRD Shares are heavily traded on several exchanges around the world, including the ASX, the JSE and Nasdaq.
Absent unusual circumstances and as set forth in the following three paragraphs, the DRD Shares received by Emperor Shareholders will be freely transferable and may be deposited in DRD’s unrestricted ADR Program by any person other than DRD, an underwriter or dealer, any of their respective affiliates or any person acting on behalf of any of them.
Since October 1996, DRD Shares have traded in the United States on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the trading symbol “DROOY” in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).
DRD is also included as a member of the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index (a capitalisation weighted index comprised of the leading publicly traded companies involved in the mining of silver and gold).A summary of how DRD Shares are traded on the ASX, JSE and Nasdaq is set out below.
Emperor Shareholders should be aware that DRD Shares issued under the Offer will be issued in the form of DRD CDIs. Emperor Shareholders should be aware of the procedures for converting DRD CDIs into DRD Shares (see Annexure E generally), and the Transfer Restrictions that apply to the DRD Shares issued under the Offer (see sections 8.10 and section 4.2 of Annexure E of this Bidder’s Statement).
However, if The Bank of New York does not receive your voting instructions, it will give a proxy to vote your DRD Shares to a person designated by DRD, unless DRD does not wish the proxy to be given, substantial opposition exists or the issue at hand materially and adversely affects the rights of holders of DRD Shares.DRD cannot provide assurance that DRD ADS holders will receive the voting materials in time to ensure that each DRD ADS holder can instruct The Bank of New York to vote its DRD Shares.