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Meeting Information |
CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON Meeting Type: Annual General |
COMPANY N.V. For holders as of: March 12, 2010 |
Date: May 6, 2010 Time: 2:00 p.m., local time |
Location: Intercontinental Amstel Amsterdam |
Professor Tulpplein 1 |
1018 GX Amsterdam |
The Netherlands |
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Voting Items |
NOTICE OF AGENDA FOR |
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF |
SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD MAY 6, 2010 |
To the shareholders of: Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. You are hereby notified that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (the Company) will be held at the Intercontinental Amstel Amsterdam, Professor Tulpplein 1, 1018 GX Amsterdam, The Netherlands on May 6, 2010, for the following purposes: |
1. To elect one member of the Supervisory Board to serve until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2013. The Supervisory Board recommends the election of Michael L. Underwood to fill this position; |
2. To elect one member of the Management Board to serve until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2014. The Supervisory Board recommends Chicago Bridge & Iron Company B.V. to fill this position; |
3. To authorize the preparation of our Dutch statutory annual accounts and the annual report of our Management Board in the English language, to discuss our annual report of the Management Board for the year ended December 31, 2009, and to adopt our Dutch statutory annual accounts for the year ended December 31, 2009; |
4. To discharge the sole member of the Management Board from liability in respect of the exercise of its duties during the year ended December 31, 2009; |
5. To discharge the members of the Supervisory Board from liability in respect of the exercise of their duties during the year ended December 31, 2009; |
6. To approve the extension of the authority of our Management Board, acting with the approval of the Supervisory Board, to repurchase up to 10% of our issued share capital until November 6, 2011 on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions or in one or more self tender offers for a price per share not less than the nominal value of a share and not higher than 110% of the most recent available (as of the time of repurchase) price of a share on any securities exchange where our shares are traded; |
7. To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm, who will audit our accounts for the year ending December 31, 2010; |
8. To approve the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Incentive Compensation Program; |
9. To approve the extension of the authority of the Supervisory Board to issue shares and/or grant rights to acquire shares (including options to subscribe for shares), never to exceed the number of authorized but unissued shares, and to limit or exclude the preemptive rights of shareholders with respect to the issuance of shares and/or the grant of the right to acquire shares, until May 6, 2015; and |
10. To approve the compensation of the members of the Supervisory Board. |
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To discuss the dividend policy. Our Dutch statutory annual accounts and the annual report of the Management Board, and our Proxy Statement containing certain information relating to the Annual General Meeting required to be provided to shareholders by Dutch law are available for inspection by shareholders free of charge at our principal executive offices at Oostduinlaan 75, 2596 JJ The Hague, The Netherlands. Copies of these documents can also be obtained free of charge by request to the address above. |
David A. Delman Secretary |
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