Mimecast Limited Announces 2020 Annual General Meeting To Be Held In Camera
Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME) announced a significant change to its 2020 Annual General Meeting due to COVID-19. Scheduled for October 8, 2020, the meeting will now be held in an in camera format, restricting shareholder attendance. While shareholders can still vote remotely via telephone, online, or by mail, they will not have the chance to participate in person. This decision aligns with local health guidelines, and the company intends to resume in-person meetings when safe. Shareholders are encouraged to review proxy materials for voting instructions and deadlines.
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- Shareholders cannot participate or ask questions during the Annual Meeting.
- The change to an in camera format limits shareholder engagement.
LEXINGTON, Mass. and LONDON, Sept. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME) (the “Company”), a leading email and data security company, today announced that, in light of public health and safety precautions related to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in order to ensure compliance with local rules and laws, including those enacted by the government of the United Kingdom to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, the Company has decided that the Company’s 2020 Annual General Meeting (the “Annual Meeting”), to be held on October 8, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (London time), will be an in camera meeting, without the presence of shareholders and any other person entitled to attend such meeting except as is required to meet the quorum requirements under the Company’s Article of Association, and any others that are essential to ensure the Annual Meeting’s proper conduct and safe operation. The Company intends to return to in person annual shareholder meetings when it is feasible to do so.
The change to an in camera meeting format means that shareholders will not have the opportunity to participate, vote shares, and ask questions during the Annual Meeting. Instead, shareholders entitled to vote are strongly encouraged to vote through one of the other alternatives set forth below and as set forth in the proxy materials distributed to shareholders. As set forth in the proxy materials, only shareholders of record as of 4:00 p.m. (London time) on October 6, 2020 are entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.
To vote prior to the Annual Meeting:
- By Telephone: You can vote by telephone by calling toll free 1-800-652-VOTE (8683) within the USA, U.S. territories and Canada or calling 1-781-575-2300 on a touch tone telephone outside USA, U.S. territories and Canada. After placing the call, follow the instructions provided by the recorded message.
- Online: You can vote online by visiting www.investorvote.com/mime and following the instructions in the proxy materials.
- By Mail: You can vote by mailing your proxy to the offices of the Company’s registrars, Computershare, P.O. Box 505008, Louisville, KY 40233-9814, USA and following the instructions in the proxy materials.
The proxy card or voting instruction form included with the proxy materials previously distributed will not be updated to reflect the change in the format of the Annual Meeting and may continue to be used to vote your shares in connection with the Annual Meeting.
The Board of Directors provides to every shareholder the ability to communicate with the Board of Directors, as a whole, and with individual directors, including on matters related to the Annual Meeting or other matters, through an established process for shareholder communication. For a shareholder communication directed to the Board of Directors as a whole, or a shareholder communication directed to an individual director in his or her capacity as a member of the Board of Directors, shareholders may send such communication to the attention of the Company’s legal department via U.S. Mail or expedited delivery service to Mimecast Limited, c/o Mimecast North America, Inc., 191 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 USA, Attn: Legal Department. Alternatively, shareholders may send such communication via email to the Company’s investor relations department at Investors@mimecast.com. The Company’s legal department will review all incoming shareholder communications and, if appropriate, will forward any such communication to each director, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors in his or her capacity as a representative of the Board of Directors, to whom such communication is addressed, unless there are safety or security concerns that mitigate against further transmission.
The proxy materials and the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2020 (the “Annual Report”) are available for viewing, printing and downloading at www.proxydocs.com/MIME. The Company’s Annual Report is also available on the “Investor Relations” section of the Company’s website at www.mimecast.com. Alternatively, if shareholders would like a copy of the Annual Report, without charge, please contact:
Mimecast Limited
c/o Mimecast North America, Inc.
191 Spring Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 USA
Attn: Investor Relations
Investors@mimecast.com
(617) 393-7074
If shareholders would like a copy of the exhibits listed on the exhibit index of the Annual Report, the Company will do so upon payment of its reasonable expenses in furnishing a requested exhibit.
About Mimecast
Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector - email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. To learn more about Mimecast please visit www.mimecast.com.
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Investor Contact:
Robert Sanders
Investors@Mimecast.com
617-393-7074
Press Contact:
Alison Raymond Walsh
Press@Mimecast.com
617-393-7126
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