HAITONG UT(01905)Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong will implement and complete the proposed merger.

HAITONG UT (01905) announced that the company's board of directors is aware that Haitong Securities and Guotai Junan Securities jointly issued a latest progress announcement on the proposed merger on January 20, 2025. As stated in the latest progress announcement on the proposed merger, the effectiveness and implementation conditions of the merger agreement signed between Haitong and Guotai Junan Securities have been met, and Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong will implement and complete the proposed merger. After the proposed merger is completed, Haitong will no longer be the ultimate controlling shareholder of the company. Guotai Junan Securities (as the surviving company) will become the indirect controlling shareholder of the company, and Shanghai International Group Co., Ltd. (as the actual controller of the surviving company) will become the actual controller of the company.