E x h i b i t 9 9 . 1 AMIRA NATURE FOODS LTD (a British Virgin Islands Company) (NYSE Ticker: ANFI) 29E, A.U. Tower Jumeirah Lake Towers Dubai, UniteD Arab Emirates NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS To be helD on August 3, 2015 (or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof) To the Shareholders of Amira Nature Foods Ltd: Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Amira Nature Foods Ltd (the “Company,” “ANFI”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) will be held on August 3, 2015 at 1pm Local Time at Fairmont The Palm, Palm Jumeirah, P.O.Box 72413, Dubai, UAE. The meeting is called for the following purposes: 1. To elect Karan A. Chanana, Neal Cravens, Shiv Surinder Kumar, Harash Pal Sethi and Bruce C. Wacha to serve on the Board of Directors until the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Company or until their respective successors are duly appointed and qualified; and 2. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual General Meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof. The close of business on July 17, 2015 has been fixed as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual General Meeting. Our share transfer books will not be closed. A list of the shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting may be examined at our offices during the 10-day period preceding the meeting. All shareholders of record as of the record date are cordially invited to attend the meeting in person. Whether or not you expect to attend, you are respectfully requested by our Board of Directors to sign, date and return the enclosed proxy card promptly. Shareholders who execute proxies retain the right to revoke them at any time prior to the voting thereof. A return envelope which requires no postage if mailed in the United States is enclosed for your convenience. You may obtain directions to the meeting by calling our offices at +1 2019600745. Notice and Proxy Statement are available on our corporate website at address: www.amira.net. You may also obtain a copy of these materials, free of charge, by contacting Bruce C. Wacha, CFO & Executive Director, 29E, A.U. Tower, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, UAE. By Order of the Board of Directors, /s/ Karan A. Chanana Karan A. Chanana Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dated: July 22, 2015 IMPORTANT Whether or not you exPect to attenD the Annual General Meeting, Please comPlete, Date, anD sign the accomPanying Proxy form, anD return it PromPtly in the encloseD return enveloPe. If you grant a Proxy, you may revoke it at any time Prior to the Annual General Meeting or nevertheless vote in Person at the meeting. PLEASE NOTE: If your shares are helD in street name, your broker, bank, custoDian or other nominee holder cannot vote your shares in the election of Directors, unless you Direct the nominee holder how to vote, by returning your Proxy carD, in accorDance with the instructions you will receive from such broker, bank, custodian or other nominee, which will include instructions on how to vote your shares. AMIRA NATURE FOODS LTD 29E, A.U. Tower Jumeirah Lake Towers Dubai, United Arab Emirates MATERIALS for ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS These materials are being furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors of Amira Nature Foods Ltd (the “Company,” “ANFI”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on August 3, 2015 at 1pm Local Time at Fairmont The Palm, Palm Jumeirah, P.O.Box 72413, Dubai, UAE, and for any adjournment or adjournments thereof, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Any shareholder appointing such a proxy has the power to revoke it at any time before it is voted. Written notice of such revocation should be forwarded directly to Bruce C. Wacha, CFO & Executive Director at the above stated address. If the enclosed proxy is properly executed and returned, the shares represented thereby will be voted in accordance with the directions thereon and otherwise in accordance with the judgment of the persons designated as proxies. Any proxy on which no direction is specified will be voted on each of the proposed matters in accordance with the discretion of the proxy holder named therein. The Company will bear the entire cost of preparing, assembling, printing and mailing these materials, the accompanying proxy form, and any additional material that may be furnished to shareholders. The approximate date on which these materials and the accompanying form of proxy will first be mailed or given to our shareholders is July 20, 2015. Your vote is important. Accordingly, you are urged to sign and return the accompanying proxy card whether or not you plan to attend the meeting. If you do attend, you may vote by ballot at the meeting, thereby canceling any proxy previously submitted. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT VOTING RecorD Date, OutstanDing Shares, Voting Rights anD Quorum Only holders of our ordinary shares, $0.001 par value per share, of record at the close of business on July 17, 2015 (the “Record Date”) are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were outstanding and entitled to vote 28,680,164 ordinary shares. For purposes of voting at the Annual General Meeting, each share is entitled to one vote upon all matters to be acted upon at the Annual General Meeting. One or more shareholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to cast a majority of votes shall constitute a quorum. AttenDing the Annual General Meeting If you are a shareholder of record, you may vote in person at the Annual General Meeting. We will give you a ballot sheet when you arrive. You may obtain directions to the meeting by contacting Bruce C. Wacha at 29 E, A.U. Tower, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, UAE., telephone number: +1 2019600745, or by writing to Company at the above address. If you attend the meeting, you may vote there in person, regardless whether you have voted by any of the other means mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Votes RequireD Proposal No. 1: Under applicable British Virgin Islands law and our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (our “Memorandum”), directors are elected by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes cast in person or in proxy at the Annual General Meeting and entitled to vote thereon. Our Memorandum does not provide for cumulative voting. Only shares that are voted are taken into account in determining the proportion of votes cast. Any shares not voted (whether by abstention, broker non-vote or otherwise) will only impact the percentage of votes cast for or against the election of Directors. Except for determining the presence or absence of a quorum for the transaction of business, broker non-votes are not counted for any purpose in determining whether a matter has been approved. ProceDures for Voting or Revoking Proxies If you do not wish to vote in person or you will not be attending the Annual General Meeting, you may vote by proxy. If you have received a printed copy of these proxy materials by mail, you may vote by proxy using the enclosed proxy form. To vote by proxy using the enclosed proxy form (only if you have received a printed copy of these proxy materials by mail), complete, sign and date your proxy form and return it promptly in the envelope provided. The persons authorized by any of those means to vote your shares will vote them as you specify or, in absence of your specification, as stated on the form of proxy. If you intend to vote by proxy, your vote must be received by the Company no later than August 1, 2015, 48 hours before the time of the Annual General Meeting to be counted. You may revoke any proxy by notifying the Company in writing at the above address, ATTN: Bruce C. Wacha, or by voting a subsequent proxy or in person at the meeting. If you are not a shareholder of record, please follow the directions provided to you by your bank or broker. If you wish to vote in person at the Annual General Meeting, please contact your bank or broker for the procedures necessary to allow you to vote your shares in person. PROPOSAL NO. 1 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS At the meeting, Five directors will be elected by the shareholders to serve until the next Annual General Meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected and shall qualify. It is intended that the accompanying proxy will be voted for the election of Karan A. Chanana, Neal Cravens, Shiv Surinder Kumar, Harash Pal Sethi and Bruce C. Wacha as directors unless the proxy contains contrary instructions. We have no reason to believe that any of the nominees will not be a candidate or will be unable to serve. However, in the event that any of the nominees should become unable or unwilling to serve as a director, the persons named as proxies on the proxy card have advised that they will vote for the election of such substitute person or persons as shall be designated by the directors. Set forth below are the respective employment histories of the five nominees and the periods during which each has served on our Board of Directors. Karan A. Chanana has been our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since February 2012 and has been a director of Amira India since 1994.
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