General Announcement :: ARA Acquisition Project – Results of the Extraordinary General Meeting survey

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ESR CAYMAN LIMITED

(Incorporated in Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock code: 1821)

ARA ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED ACQUISITION PROJECT

SURVEY RESULTS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

Reference is made to (i) the announcements of ESR Cayman Limited (the “Society“) dated August 4, 2021, August 24, 2021 and October 12, 2021 and (ii) the circular issued by the Company dated October 18, 2021 (the”Circular“) in connection with a proposed business combination of ARA Asset Management Limited and its subsidiaries with the Group. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meaning as those defined in the Circular.

AGE SURVEY RESULTS

The Board is pleased to announce that all ordinary resolutions to approve the Matters submitted for approval have been duly adopted by Shareholders by ballot at the Company’s EGM held on Wednesday, November 3, 2021.

The results of the resolution survey are as follows:

As more than 50% of the votes cast were in favor of each of the aforementioned resolutions, all resolutions were duly adopted as ordinary resolutions at the EGM.

* All percentages rounded to 2 decimal places

At the date of the EGM, the total number of Shares issued allowing Shareholders to attend and vote for or against the resolutions proposed at the EGM was 3,048,372,247 Shares.

There were no Shares authorizing Shareholders to attend and abstain from voting in favor at the EGM, as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Listing Rules and no Shareholders were required under the Listing Rules. , to abstain from voting at the EGM.

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company’s share registrar in Hong Kong, acted as scrutineer for the vote at the EGM.

The Offered Transaction is subject to satisfaction of all Terms (or, where applicable, waiver) and therefore may or may not become unconditional. If any of the conditions are not met (or, where applicable, waived), the proposed transaction will not be completed. Shareholders and potential investors are reminded to be careful when dealing in Shares and other securities of the Company.

By order of the Council

ESR Cayman Limited

Jinchu Shen

Director

Hong Kong, November 3, 2021

As of the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of the Company comprises Mr. Jinchu Shen and Mr. Stuart Gibson as Executive Directors, Mr. Jeffrey David Perlman as Chairman and Non-Executive Director, Mr. Charles Alexander Portes, Mr. Wei Hu and Mr. David Alasdair William Matheson as non-executive directors, Mr. Brett Harold Krause, the Right Honorable Sir Hugo George William Swire, KCMG, Mr. Simon James McDonald, Ms. Jingsheng Liu and Mr. Robin Tom Holdsworth as independent non-executive directors.