As at 31 December 2022, the following persons have the following beneficial interests in the shares of the Company, which have been recorded in the Register of Interests and Short Positions of Substantial Shareholders required to be kept by the Company under Section 336 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (the "SFO") or which have otherwise been notified to the Company and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited pursuant to Divisions 2 and 3 of Part XV of the SFO (including those interests which they were deemed or taken to have under such provisions of the SFO):
 

 

Name of shareholder Class of shares Capacity in which
the shares are held
Long/Short
position
Total interests
(Number of shares)
Approximate
% of holding
James Mellon Ordinary shares Beneficial owner Long position 807,612,142 18.04%
  Ordinary shares Interests held by controlled corporation  Long position 51,583,810 1.15%
  Ordinary shares Interests held by controlled corporation  Long position 1,723,875,752 38.51%
Interests held by James Mellon are disclosed with reference to the Disclosure of Interests Form filed by him from time to time. As at 31 December 2022, the total number of issued ordinary shares of the Company was 2,400,347,881 shares.

As at the completion of Rights Issue on 12 January 2023, the total number of issued ordinary shares of the Company was 4,566,919,075 shares.  The interests held by James Mellon, Indigo Securities Limited and Galloway Limited (both are beneficially wholly-owned by James Mellon) are approximately 17.68%, 1.13% and 37.75% respectively and disclosed on pages 44 and 45 of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2022.