09:14 LENOVO GROUP<00992> - Announcement (2) agreement, IBM has a material interest in the Investment Agreement and was therefore required to abstain from voting in favour of the resolutions proposed at the EGM. As at the date of the EGM, IBM was interested in 821,234,569 Shares (with voting rights) and 921,636,459 Non-voting Shares. IBM abstained from voting on the resolutions at the EGM. (3) Abacus Share Registrars Limited, the share registrar of the Company, was appointed as scrutineer for the purpose of the poll taken at the EGM. TRADING ARRANGEMENT Following the creation of the Convertible Preferred Shares, the capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares. In compliance with the requirements of the Companies Ordinance and paragraph 5(3) of Part B of Appendix 2 to the Listing Rules, share certificates issued on or after the date of the EGM will contain a statement that the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of shares. All existing share certificates in issue which do not contain such a statement will continue to be evidence of title to the shares of the Company and will continue to be valid for trading, settlement and delivery for the same number of shares in the Company. There will be no special arrangement for free exchange of the existing share certificates of the Company for new share certificates printed with the inclusion of a statement that the Company's share capital is divided into different classes of shares. By order of the Board Yang Yuanqing Chairman Hong Kong, 13 May 2005 As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises three Executive Directors, namely Mr Yang Yuanqing, Mr Stephen Maurice Ward, Jr., and Ms Ma Xuezheng; two Non-Executive Directors, namely Mr Liu Chuanzhi and Mr Zhu Linan; and three Independent Non-Executive Directors, namely Mr Wong Wai Ming, Professor Woo Chia-Wei and Mr Ting Lee Sen.