Hepsiburada Announces Grant of All Regulatory Approvals for Change of Control and Call for Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting
04 January 2025 - 12:15AM
D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a
“
Hepsiburada”) (NASDAQ: HEPS), a leading Turkish
e-commerce platform (referred to herein as
“
Hepsiburada” or the “
Company”),
announces that, as of January 2, 2025, the four regulatory
approvals required for effecting the previously announced sale and
purchase of 65.4% of the total outstanding shares of the Company
pursuant to the stock purchase agreement dated October 17, 2024,
between Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz, as buyer, and the selling
controlling shareholders of Hepsiburada identified therein, as
sellers (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) have been granted. The
relevant regulatory authorities identified in the Stock Purchase
Agreement were the following: the Turkish Competition Board, the
Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, the Information
Technologies and Communications Authority and the Central Bank of
the Republic of Türkiye.
Furthermore, the Company announces that the
Board of Directors has decided to call for an Extraordinary General
Assembly Meeting of Shareholders (the “Extraordinary General
Assembly”) to convene at its headquarters located at the address of
“Kuştepe Mahallesi Mecidiyeköy Yolu Caddesi No:12 Trump Towers,
Tower No:2 Floor:2 Şişli/İstanbul.” on January 31, 2025, at 15:00
with the following agenda:
- Opening of the meeting and election
of the Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting Chairmanship,
- Authorization of the Meeting
Chairman to sign the minutes of the meeting,
- Election of the members of the
Board of Directors and determination of their terms of office,
- Submitting the amendment of Article
6 titled “Capital,” Article 8 titled “Capital Increase and
Decrease,” Article 23 titled “Voting Right and Appointment of
Proxy,” Article 26 titled “Amendment of Articles of Association”
and Article 38 titled “Compliance with Corporate Governance
Principles” of the Articles of Association of our Company; and the
removal of Article 7 titled “Transfer of Shares” and Article 7/A
titled “Partial or Full Termination of Share Classes and Privileged
Votes,” Article titled “Provisional Article 1” and Article
titled “Provisional Article 2” of the Company's Articles of
Association to the approval of the Extraordinary General
Assembly,
- Recommendations and closing.
Explanatory notes on the agenda items along with
the copies of certain materials related to the Extraordinary
General Assembly will be made available on the Company’s investor
relations website https://investors.hepsiburada.com/ as of January
31, 2025.
Holders of the Company’s American Depositary
Shares (the “ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for
the underlying shares must act through the depositary of the
Company’s ADS program, The Bank of New York Mellon.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the Safe Harbor provisions of the US Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and encompasses all
statements, other than statements of historical fact contained in
this press release, and include but are not limited to, statements
regarding changes to Hepsiburada’s Board of Directors and the
Company’s Articles of Association. These forward-looking statements
can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “could,” “will,”
“expects,” “anticipates,” “aims,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,”
“believes,” “estimates,” “targets,” “likely to” and similar
statements.
These forward-looking statements are based on
management’s current expectations. However, it is not possible for
our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact
of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor,
or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements
we may make. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees
but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
important factors and circumstances that may cause Hepsiburada’s
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from its expectations expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements, including conditions in the U.S.
capital markets, negative global economic conditions, potential
negative developments resulting from epidemics or natural
disasters, other negative developments in Hepsiburada’s business or
unfavorable legislative or regulatory developments. We caution you
therefore against relying on these forward-looking statements, and
we qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these
cautionary statements. For a discussion of additional factors that
may affect the outcome of such forward-looking statements, see our
2023 annual report filed with the SEC on Form 20-F on April 30,
2024 (Commission File Number: 001-40553), and in particular the
“Risk Factors” section, as well as the other documents filed with
or furnished to the SEC by Hepsiburada from time to time. Copies of
these filings are available online from the SEC at www.sec.gov, or
on the SEC Filings section of our Investor Relations website at
https://investors.hepsiburada.com. These and other important
factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those
indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press
release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management’s
estimates as of the date of this press release. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing Hepsiburada’s views as of any date subsequent to the
date of this press release. All forward-looking statements in this
press release are based on information currently available to
Hepsiburada, and Hepsiburada and its authorized representatives
assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in
light of new information or future events. Accordingly, undue
reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking
statements.
About Hepsiburada
Hepsiburada is a leading e-commerce technology
platform in Türkiye, operating through a hybrid model that combines
first-party direct sales (1P) and a third-party marketplace (3P)
with approximately 100 thousand merchants.
With its vision of leading the digitalization of
commerce, Hepsiburada serves as a reliable, innovative and
purpose-driven companion in consumers’ daily lives. Hepsiburada’s
e-commerce platform offers a broad ecosystem of capabilities for
merchants and consumers including last-mile delivery, fulfillment
services, advertising solutions, cross-border sales, payment
services and affordability solutions. Hepsiburada’s integrated
fintech platform, Hepsipay, provides secure payment solutions,
including digital wallets, general-purpose loans, buy now pay later
(BNPL) and one-click checkout, enhancing shopping convenience for
consumers across online and offline while driving higher sales
conversions for merchants.
Since its founding in 2000, Hepsiburada has been
purpose-driven, leveraging its digital capabilities to empower
women in the Turkish economy. In 2017, Hepsiburada launched the
‘Technology Empowerment for Women Entrepreneurs’ program, which has
supported nearly 57.5 thousand female entrepreneurs across Türkiye
in reaching millions of customers.
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