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Capital Change Notice

Capital Change27 February 2023SPKCommunication Services

Capital Change Notice

Updated as at 17 October 2019




Notice of issue of ordinary shares under Spark New Zealand’s Long-Term Incentive Scheme


This notice is given under NZX Listing Rule 3.13.1 and 3.15.2 and relates to the exercise and

conversion of options into ordinary shares under SPK's Long Term Incentive Scheme ("LTI

Scheme").


Section 1: Issuer information

Name of issuer Spark New Zealand Limited

NZX ticker code SPK

Class of financial product Ordinary shares

ISIN (If unknown, check on NZX website) NZTELE0001S4

Currency NZD

Section 2: Capital change details

Number issued/acquired/redeemed 34,141 ordinary shares issued

pursuant to the LTI Scheme

Nominal value (if any) N/A

Issue/acquisition/redemption price per security No consideration payable

Nature of the payment (for example, cash or other

consideration)

N/A

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


0.002% of the ordinary shares

in Spark NZ (based on the

number of ordinary shares

currently on issue)

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)

Issue of ordinary shares

following the conversion of

options under the SPK LTI

Scheme, approved by the

Spark Board on 25 August

2020 and 17 August 2021.


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.

2,963,714 options

1,873,198,156 ordinary shares


1

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

In the case of an acquisition of shares, whether those shares
are to be held as treasury stock

N/A

Specific authority for the issue, acquisition, or redemption,

including a reference to the rule pursuant to which the issue,

acquisition, or redemption is made

SPK LTI Scheme and board

resolutions dated 25 August

2020, 17 August 2021 and 21

February 2023, for the

purposes of NZX Listing Rule

4.9.1(b)(i).

Terms or details of the issue, acquisition, or redemption (for

example: restrictions, escrow arrangements)

Terms and details of the issue

are set out in the LTI Scheme

Rules. The ordinary shares

issued on vesting and exercise

of options will rank pari passu

with existing ordinary shares.

Date of issue/acquisition/redemption

2

27/02/2023

Section 3: Authority for this announcement and contact person

Name of person


authorised to make this announcement

Paige Howard-Smith,

Company Secretary

Contact person for this announcement Paige Howard-Smith

Contact phone number +64 9 306 4697

Contact email address

paige.howard-

smith@spark.co.nz

Date of release through MAP


27/02/2023





Listing Rule 3.15.2



a) Number of Financial Products converted and

the number and class of Quoted Financial

Products into which they have been

converted.




b) Details of any interest or dividend

conditions attaching to the Financial Products

into which they have been converted.


c) Number of Financial Products of the same

class that remain to be converted.








34,141 options converted into 34,141 ordinary

shares pursuant to the terms of the SPK LTI

Scheme.



None – to rank pari passu with the ordinary shares

in SPK on issue.



2,963,714 options pursuant to the SPK LTI

Scheme.



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).

Data sourced from publicly available filings. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@nzxplorer.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice.