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Issuer Event Report

How to View an Issuer Event Report

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Type information in the relevant field

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Click the radio button beside the issuer to select it

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Click the radio button beside the report that you want to view.

Click Next

The View information screen opens

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Examples of Issuer Event Report

Examples of Issuer Event Report

Overview: The following are examples of information to be entered in certain fields for each of the eight standard issuer event types contained in SEDI. The focus of these examples is on information content and is not meant to restrict any other type of format or additional information that may be used. However as a minimum requirement, the content of either the "Title" (maximum number of characters: 120 or approximately 2 lines) or the "Details" (maximum number of characters: 4,000 or approximately 40 lines) should follow the issuer event guidelines described in “How to File – Issuer Event Report”

Note: If the issuer event does match one of the eight standard event types contained in SEDI, the issuer event will be categorized as an “other issuer event” type and the event will be described in the “other issuer event” type text box field (e.g. Rights Offering). The description entered will appear as the issuer event type on SEDI. Maximum number of characters to describe an issuer event type is 70.

Issuer Event Type:	Description
Stock Split	Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: 3 for 1 Stock Split - Class A and Class B Shares Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Class A Subordinate Voting Shares & Class B Multiple Voting Shares. Ratio: 3 Class A Subordinate Voting Shares for each Class A Subordinate Voting Shares and 3 Class B Multiple Voting Shares for each Class B Multiple Voting Shares. Rounding: All fractional share entitlements will be rounded up to the next whole share Record Date: July 7, 2001.
Stock Consolidation		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: 1 for 5 Consolidation - Common Shares / Consolidation 1 pour 5 - actions ordinaries Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Common Shares Ratio: 1 share for each 5 shares held. Rounding: All fractional share entitlements will be rounded up to the next whole share. Additional information: For more information visit ABC Ltd's Web site.
Stock Dividend		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Stock dividend on Class A Shares and Special Voting Shares Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Class A Shares and Special Voting Shares. Dividend Ratio: 0.1352 Class A Shares for each Class A Share held and 0.138 Class A Shares for each Special Voting Share held. Rounding: Cash payments representing any fractional shares will be made to all holders. No fractional amounts will be rounded up to the next full share. Record Date: Holders of record on March 23, 2001 will be entitled to the dividends.
Redesignation		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Redesignation of Class D Shares Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Class D Shares. Each Class D Share will be redesignated as a Class D Subordinate Voting Share. The redesignation will be on a one for one basis. Additional information: Refer to ABC Ltd's Press Release dated January 5, 2001 for any additional information.
Reclassification		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Reclassification: Common Shares into Class A and B Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Common Shares. Each Common Share will be reclassified on the basis of 0.5 Class A Non-Voting Shares and 0.5 Class B Voting Shares for each Common Share held. Rounding: No fractional shares will be issued, the shares issued will be rounded up to the next full shares Additional information: The common shares will become void at the time of mailing of the resulting Class A Non-Voting Shares and Class B Voting Shares, which is expected to be July 14, 2001.
Conversion (issuer initiated)		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Conversion of Category D Series12 Preferred Shares Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Category D preferred Shares, Series 12 Each Category D Preferred Shares, Series 12 will be automatically converted into 5.435 Common Shares Rounding: Cash payments representing any fractional common shares to be issued pursuant to the conversion will be made to all holders. No fractional amounts will be rounded up to the next full common share.
Amalgamation, Merger or Reorganization		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Amalgamation: ABC Ltd and KLM Corp. into XYZ Enterprises Ltd Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Common Shares, Series A Convertible Debentures 2004 and Warrants Series 1. Resulting Issuer: XYZ Enterprises Ltd et-Each Common Share of ABC Ltd will be exchanged for 1.675 Common Shares of XYZ Enterprises Ltd et-Each $ 1,000 of Series A Convertible Debentures 2004 of ABC Ltd will be exchanged for $ 1,000 of Special Convertible Debentures and also 0.5 Warrants Series 3 of XYZ Enterprises Ltd et-10 Warrants Series 1 of ABC Ltd will be exchanged for 2 Units of XYZ Enterprises Ltd (each unit composed of one common share and one Warrant Series 3) Rounding: Cash payments representing any fractional shares or units to be issued pursuant to the amalgamation will be made to all holders. No fractional amounts will be rounded up to the next full share or unit. Additional Information: Refer to the Exchange Circular jointly issued by ABC Ltd and KLM Corp. dated October 17, 2000 for more information. Note: The example below is for the creation of an issuer event report by ABC Ltd. It is expected (assuming that KLM Corp. is also a reporting issuer) that KLM Corp. will also create an issuer event of its own which will reflect the changes on its own affected securities. An issuer event that is created by a particular issuer triggers an alert to only the filers related to the issuer who has created that issuer event.
Spin-off		Effective date: month/dd/yyyy Title: Spin-off and creation of SPN Corporation Details: Affected Securities of ABC Ltd: Common shares. Resulting Issuer: SPN Corporation. Each holder of common shares of ABC Ltd will receive 0.332 common shares of SPN Corporation for each common share of ABC Ltd held Rounding: Cash payments representing any fractional shares of SPN Corporation to be issued pursuant to the spin-off will be made to all holders of ABC Ltd common shares. No fractional amounts will be rounded up to the next full common share of SPN Corporation. Additional Information: Each holder of common shares of ABC Ltd will retain their current common share holdings in ABC Ltd. Expected mailing date of SPN common shares: September 3, 2001.