Capital Change Notice

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Capital Change Notice

27 May 2020

Meridian Energy Limited provides the attached capital change notice pursuant to NZX Listing Rule 3.13.1. This
notice relates to the acquisition of 100,000 ordinary shares in connection with the FY20 LTI share buyback
announced on 24 April 2020.

ENDS
Jason Woolley
Company Secretary
Meridian Energy Limited


For investor relations queries, please contact:

Owen Hackston
Investor Relations Manager
021 246 4772

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Polly Atkins
Senior Communications Specialist
021 174 1715

Capital Change Notice
Updated as at 17 October 2019



Section 1: Issuer information
Name of issuer Meridian Energy Limited
NZX ticker code MEL
Class of financial product Ordinary shares
ISIN (If unknown, check on NZX website) NZMELE0002S7
Currency NZD
Section 2: Capital change details
Number issued/acquired/redeemed 100,000
Nominal value (if any) n/a
Issue/acquisition/redemption price per security NZD 4.7722
Nature of the payment (for example, cash or other
consideration)
Cash
Amount paid up (if not in full) n/a
Percentage of total class of Financial Products
issued/acquired/redeemed/ (calculated on the number
of Financial Products of the Class, excluding any
Treasury Stock, in existence)
1

0.003902%
For an issue of Convertible Financial Products or
Options, the principal terms of Conversion (for
example the Conversion price and Conversion date
and the ranking of the Financial Product in relation to
other Classes of Financial Product) or the Option (for
example, the exercise price and exercise date)
N/A
Reason for issue/acquisition/redemption and specific
authority for issue/acquisition/redemption/ (the reason
for change must be identified here)
Under the Meridian Energy Limited
long term incentive scheme (Scheme),
approved by the Meridian Board on 23
August 2019, Meridian issues to
participants of the Scheme rights to
acquire ordinary shares in the
Company (Share Rights). Meridian
will meet its obligations under the
Scheme by acquiring its own shares
on-market, holding these shares as
treasury stock for the three-year
performance period, and transferring
the shares to the participants of the
Scheme if the Share Rights vest and
the participants exercise their Share
Rights.
The acquisition of Meridian shares was
approved by the Meridian Board on 23
April 2020.

1
The percentage is to be calculated immediately before the issue, acquisition, redemption or Conversion.

Total number of Financial Products of the Class after
the issue/acquisition/redemption/Conversion
(excluding Treasury Stock) and the total number of
Financial Products of the Class held as Treasury Stock
after the issue/acquisition/redemption.
Total Ordinary Shares (excluding
treasury stock): 2,562,643,868
Treasury stock held after acquisition:
356,132
In the case of an acquisition of shares, whether those
shares are to be held as treasury stock
Yes
Specific authority for the issue, acquisition, or
redemption, including a reference to the rule pursuant
to which the issue, acquisition, or redemption is made
Meridian Energy Limited Board
resolution for the purposes of Listing
Rule 4.14.1. dated 23 April 2020.
Terms or details of the issue, acquisition, or
redemption (for example: restrictions, escrow
arrangements)
N/A
Date of issue/acquisition/redemption
2
26 May 2020
Section 3: Authority for this announcement and contact person
Name of person

authorised to make this
announcement
Jason Woolley
Contact person for this announcement Jason Woolley
Contact phone number +64 4 381 1200
Contact email address generalcounsel@meridianenergy.co.nz
Date of release through MAP

27 May 2020




2
Continuous issuers using this form in reliance on Rule 3.13.2, please indicate the period during which the relevant
issue/acquisition/redemptions were made (for example, 1 January 2019 to 31 January 2019).