On 2 December 2021, BHP announced a final Board decision to unify BHP's corporate structure under its existing Australian parent company, BHP Group Limited. On 8 December 2021, BHP announced the publication of the Shareholder Circular, Prospectus and Johannesburg Stock Exchange pre-listing announcement, and set out the expected timetable and outstanding approvals required for the implementation of unification.
BHP is pleased to confirm that all regulatory and competition approvals for unification have now been received, including approval from the National Treasury of South Africa1.
Shareholder meetings of BHP Group Limited and BHP Group Plc will be held on Thursday 20 January 2022 to consider unification. Information on unification is available on BHP's website at www.bhp.com/unify.
If approved by shareholders and all other conditions are satisfied or waived (including the UK court's sanction of the scheme of arrangement and admission of Limited shares to the standard segment of the FCA official list and trading on LSE and listing on the JSE), unification is expected to complete on 31 January 2022. The last day of trading in BHP Group Plc shares (including BHP Group Plc shares in the form of ADSs on the NYSE) would be 28 January 2022 and the Limited shares that would be issued in connection with unification are expected to be admitted to trading on the ASX, LSE, JSE and Limited ADSs on the NYSE on 31 January 2022.
1 National Treasury of South Africa approval was obtained pursuant to an application that BHP made to the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
