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Title：

Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Procedures for Applications by TWSE Listed Companies for the Delisting of Securities  CH

Amended Date： 2021.03.31 
Categories： Primary Market > Management > Delisting
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Title： Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Procedures for Applications by TWSE Listed Companies for the Delisting of Securities(2018.08.07)
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Article 2     To safeguard the interests of investors, a TWSE listed company's application to delist its securities shall have been passed by a resolution of a board of directors meeting and then submitted to a shareholders meeting for resolution, and the resolution of the shareholders meeting shall require the approval of shareholders representing no less than two-thirds of the total number of issued shares of the company. This requirement need not be applied, however, when a TWSE listed company submits an application to delist its convertible bonds from the TWSE for the purpose of switching to trading on the GreTai Securities Market (GTSM).
    Before the TWSE listed company holds a board of directors meeting to resolve on delisting of its securities, it shall form a special committee to review the fairness and reasonableness of the plan for delisting from the TWSE and then report the review results to the board of directors and to the shareholders meeting.
    The functions under the preceding paragraph will, for a company that has an audit committee in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act, be exercised by the audit committee. The audit committee shall handle the review matters in this article in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Act related to resolutions of an audit committee.
    When the special committee or audit committee conducts the review, it shall engage an independent expert to provide opinions on the reasonableness of the share buyback price proposed by the directors and whether the justification and plan to apply for delisting from the TWSE conform with the overall interests of the TWSE listed company and its shareholders.
    Matters in connection with the establishment of the special committee and related matters shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the relevant provisions of the Regulations Governing the Establishment and Related Matters of Special Committees of Public Companies for Merger/Consolidation and Acquisition.
Article 3     When a TWSE listed company submits an application to delist its securities, as a minimum the directors, other than independent directors, who expressed consent at the relevant board of directors meeting to submit the delisting application proposal to the shareholders meeting for deliberation, shall be jointly and severally liable for committing to purchase the shares of the company.
    For the commitment to purchase the shares of the company described in the preceding paragraph, the proposal for submitting the application for delisting shall specify the following:
  1. The starting date of purchase.
  2. The method for calculating the purchase price.
  3. The purchase period.
  4. The number of shares held by each director and supervisor and the corresponding percentage to the total number of issued shares of the company, current as of the day immediately preceding the delivery of the notice of the board of directors meeting and shareholders meeting.
  5. The individual purchase percentages of the directors jointly and severally liable for the purchase commitment, provided that in the case the percentages cannot be confirmed in resolutions of the Board of Directors, this individual purchase percentage information may be specified at a later time, either in a proposal submitted to a subsequent shareholders meeting or when the delisting application is submitted to the TWSE.
  6. The results of the review by the special committee or audit committee.
    The starting date of purchase under the preceding paragraph shall be the date of delisting. The purchase period shall be 50 days, and settlement shall be conducted upon the end of the purchase period. The purchase price may not be lower than the simple arithmetic mean of the closing prices of the company's shares during the one-month period immediately preceding the resolution date of either the shareholders meeting or board of directors meeting, whichever is higher, and may not be less than the net worth per share of the company as shown in the latest financial report audited or reviewed by a CPA.
    "Net worth" in the preceding paragraph means the equity attributable to owners of parent on the balance sheet prepared under the regulations issued by the competent authority to govern the preparation of financial reports for the relevant industry.
Article 4     A TWSE listed company submitting an application to delist its securities shall annex the minutes of the board of directors meeting and shareholders meeting described in Article 2.