In the Matter of BAILLIE GIFFORD SHIN NIPPON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Company Number: SC093345

NOTICE is hereby given that on 11 June 2025, a Petition for confirmation of the cancellation of its share premium account was presented to the Court of Session, Edinburgh by BAILLIE GIFFORD SHIN NIPPON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY a company incorporated under the Companies Acts with registered number SC093345 and its registered office at Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh, EH1 3AN; in which Petition Lord Lake, by Interlocutor dated 13 June 2025, appoints all persons having an interest to lodge Answers thereto within 21 days after intimation, service or advertisement which Notice is hereby given:

13 June 2025 Lord Lake

The Lord Ordinary, having considered the petition, appoints intimation of this petition by BAILLIE GIFFORD SHIN NIPPON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (the “Company") for confirmation of the cancellation of its share premium account, which was resolved upon by special resolution of the Company passed at the Company's duly convened annual general meeting on 20 May 2025 (the “Share Premium Account Cancellation”), to be made on the walls in common form and to be advertised once in each of The Edinburgh Gazette and The Financial Times UK edition; allows all parties claiming an interest to lodge answers, if so advised, within 21 days of that intimation and advertisement; appoints Adrian Bell of Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP, 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh EH3 8RY, to be the reporter for the process; remits the process to him to report on the facts and circumstances set out in the petition and on the regularity of the proceedings; in hoc statu, and in terms of section 645(3) of the Companies Act 2006, directs that section 646 of that Act shall not apply to any class or classes of the creditors of the Company.

Philip Knight, Solicitor, Dentons UK and Middle East LLP, 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RY, Agent for the Petitioner