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This excerpt taken from the C DEF 14A filed Jun 18, 2009.

INFORMATION ON VOTING SECURITIES

The board of directors has elected to obtain stockholder approval of the amendments described above by written consent pursuant to Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, rather than by calling a meeting of stockholders. We are soliciting proxies and Voting Instructions to execute written consents from all holders as of the Record Date of common stock and Public Preferred Depositary Shares.

Under Delaware law and our restated certificate of incorporation, the affirmative written consent of holders, as of the close of business on the Record Date, of (1) two-thirds of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares, voting together as a class, and a majority of the common stock, voting as a class, are required to approve each of the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Director Amendment and the Retirement Amendment and (2) a majority of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares and the USG Preferred Stock, voting together as a class, and a majority of the common stock, voting as a class, are required to approve the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase. In addition, two-thirds of each series of the USG Preferred Stock are required to approve the amendments to our restated certificate of incorporation described in the third bullet of the Dividend Blocker Amendment.

The USG has agreed that they will vote their preferred stock and Interim Securities (as defined below), as applicable, in the same proportion as all other shares of Citigroup’s preferred stock, whether such shares vote in the same class with or as a separate class from the USG Preferred Stock and Interim Securities, with respect to (1) the proposed amendments to our restated certificate of incorporation described in the third bullet of the Dividend Blocker Amendment and (2) the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase. The USG will not vote with respect to any other Public Preferred Stock Amendments or the Common Stock Amendments.

As of the Record Date, there were 5,493,276,878 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to consent to the Public Preferred Stock Amendments. In addition to the required vote of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares, the written consent of a majority, or 2,746,638,440 shares, of common stock will be required to approve each of the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Director Amendment, the Retirement Amendment and the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase.

As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were 52,059 shares of USG Preferred Stock issued and outstanding and entitled to consent to the amendments to our restated certificate of incorporation described in the third bullet of the Dividend Blocker Amendment and to the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase.

As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were 299,573,000 Public Preferred Depositary Shares issued and outstanding, representing 533,573 shares of Public Preferred Stock. In addition to the required vote of our common stockholders and of the USG Preferred Stock with respect to the amendment set forth in the third bullet point of the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the written consent of two-thirds of the outstanding Public Preferred Stock will be required to approve each of the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Director Amendment and the Retirement Amendment. In addition to the required vote of our common stockholders and of the USG Preferred Stock, the written consent of a majority of the Public Preferred Stock will be required to approve the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase.

When voting on the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Retirement Amendment and the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase, the Public Preferred Stock votes by number of shares, with holders being entitled to one vote per share of Public Preferred Stock. When voting on the Director Amendment, the Public Preferred Stock votes by liquidation preference and each share of Series F, Series E and Series AA Public Preferred Stock is entitled to 25,000 votes and each share of Series T Public Preferred Stock is entitled to 50,000 votes. Pursuant to depositary agreements entered into by the holders of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares, BONY, as depositary, will vote the shares of each series of Public Preferred Stock in accordance with the votes of the relevant series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares.

 

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Each Series F, Series AA and Series T Public Preferred Depositary Share represents a 1/1,000th fractional interest in a share of Series F, Series AA or Series T Public Preferred Stock and each Series E Public Preferred Depositary Share represents a 1/25th fractional interest in a share of Series E Public Preferred Stock. Accordingly, when voting on the Dividend Blocker Amendment, the Retirement Amendment and the Authorized Preferred Stock Increase, the holder of each Series F, Series AA and Series T Public Preferred Depositary Share is entitled to 1/1,000th of a vote per Public Preferred Depositary Share held as of the Record Date and the holder of each Series E Public Preferred Depositary Share is entitled to 1/25th of a vote per Series E Public Preferred Depositary Share held as of the Record Date. When voting on the Director Amendment, the holder of each Series F and Series AA Public Preferred Depositary Share is entitled to 25 votes per Public Preferred Depositary Share held as of the Record Date, the holder of each Series E Public Preferred Depositary Share is entitled to 1,000 votes per Public Preferred Depositary Share held as of the Record Date, and the holder of each Series T Public Preferred Depositary Share is entitled to 50 votes per Public Preferred Depositary Share held as of the Record Date. Fractional votes of each Public Preferred Depositary Share on each matter will be aggregated with the fractional votes of other Public Preferred Depositary Shares submitting the same Voting Instructions on that matter, and BONY will grant or withhold written consents or abstain on each matter for the number of whole shares resulting from such aggregation in accordance with the instructions on the Voting Instruction.

The table below lists the following information with respect to the Public Preferred Depositary Shares, in each case as of the Record Date: number of fractional shares of Public Preferred Stock represented by each Public Preferred Depositary Share, number of underlying shares for each series of Public Preferred Stock, the liquidation preference for each series of underlying Public Preferred Stock, and the number of shares outstanding for each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares.

 

    Public Preferred Depositary Shares
  Number of
Shares of
Underlying
Public
Preferred
Stock
  Liquidation
Preference
Per
Underlying
Share of
Public
Preferred
Stock
  Fractional
Interest of
each
Public
Preferred
Depositary
Share in
Underlying
Public
Preferred
Stock
  Number of
Public
Preferred
Depositary
Shares
Outstanding
as of the
Record
Date

8.500% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series F

  81,600   $ 25,000   1/1000   81,600,000

8.400% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series E

  240,000   $ 25,000   1/25   6,000,000

8.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series AA

  148,600   $ 25,000   1/1000   148,600,000

6.500% Non-Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, Series T

  63,373   $ 50,000   1/1000   63,373,000
           

Total

  533,573       299,573,000
           

If you were a holder of Public Preferred Depositary Shares as of the Record Date, in order to validly tender your Public Preferred Depositary Shares in the Exchange Offers, you must give (or instruct your bank, broker, custodian or other nominee to give) your Tendering Voting Instruction authorizing the execution of a written consent in favor of each of the Public Preferred Stock Amendments.

This excerpt taken from the C DEF 14A filed Jun 18, 2009.

INFORMATION ON VOTING SECURITIES

Each share of common stock not issued in the Exchange Offers that is issued and outstanding as of the close of business on the Record Date, which will be the settlement date for the Exchange Offers, will be eligible to deliver a proxy with respect to the Common Stock Amendments. Each share of common stock issued in the Exchange Offers will be issued and outstanding on the Record Date and will be entitled to consent to the Common Stock Amendments but will be subject to an irrevocable proxy delivered by the Voting Trustee in favor of the Common Stock Amendments. Approval of each of the Common Stock Amendments requires the affirmative written consent of holders of a majority of the shares of common stock outstanding as of the close of business on the Record Date. A “consent withheld” or an “abstain” will be counted as a vote against the applicable proposal.

The number of shares of common stock that are issued and outstanding on the Record Date and entitled to consent to the Common Stock Amendments will depend on the number of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities that are accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offers. Holders of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities that tender their Subject Securities in the Exchange Offers and grant a Proxy Instruction in favor of the Common Stock Amendments will not know the results of the Exchange Offers or the total number of shares of common stock that will be issued in exchange for Subject Securities or Interim Securities at the time they make their decision. The table below shows the approximate number of shares of common stock that are expected to be issued and outstanding on the Record Date and entitled to consent to the Common Stock Amendments, based on the number of shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding prior to commencement of the Exchange Offer and depending on the level of participation in the Exchange Offers as described below:

 

Level of
participation

in the Public
Exchange

Offers(1)(7)

   Approximate numbers of shares of common stock (in millions)
   Issued and
outstanding
prior to the
Public
Exchange
Offers
   To be issued in respect of the Public
Exchange Offers
   To be issued and
outstanding as of
the record date
   Required to
consent to the
proposals
      in respect of Public
Preferred Depositary
Shares
   in respect of Trust
Preferred Securities
     

  25%(2)

   5,510    1,465    0    6,974    3,487

  50%(3)

   5,510    2,929    0    8,439    4,220

  66 2/3%(4)

   5,510    3,906    0    9,415    4,708

  75%(5)

   5,510    4,265    132    9,907    4,953

100%(6)

   5,510    4,265    1,630    11,405    5,702

 

(1) Does not account for the treatment of fractional shares under the terms of the Exchange Offers. Also assumes that all Public Preferred Depositary Shares are tendered and accepted for exchange before any Trust Preferred Securities are tendered and accepted for exchange and, at levels of participation below 75%, no Trust Preferred Securities are tendered. These assumptions are based on Citigroup’s expectation that if holders of Trust Preferred Securities seek to participate in the Exchange Offers, holders of Public Preferred Depositary Shares will also seek to participate in the Exchange Offers at high levels.
(2) Assumes pro rata participation by each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares up to an aggregate liquidation preference of approximately $5.125 billion (25% of the maximum $20.5 billion liquidation preference or liquidation amount of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, subject to the Exchange Offers).
(3) Assumes pro rata participation by each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares up to an aggregate liquidation preference of approximately $10.25 billion (50% of the maximum $20.5 billion liquidation preference or liquidation amount of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, subject to the Exchange Offers).

(4)

Assumes pro rata participation by each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares up to an aggregate liquidation preference of approximately $13.7 billion (66 2/3% of the maximum $20.5 billion liquidation preference or liquidation amount of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, subject to the Exchange Offers).

(5) Assumes 100% of the aggregate liquidation preference of each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares (approximately $14.92 billion) and approximately $0.5 billion aggregate liquidation amount of Trust Preferred Securities, representing an aggregate liquidation preference or liquidation amount of approximately $15.4 billion (75% of the maximum $20.5 billion liquidation preference or liquidation amount of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, subject to the Exchange Offers).
(6) Assumes 100% of the aggregate liquidation preference of each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares (approximately $14.92 billion) and approximately $5.6 billion aggregate liquidation amount of Trust Preferred Securities are tendered and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offers, representing the aggregate liquidation preference and liquidation amount of Public Preferred Depositary Shares and Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, subject to the Exchange Offers ($20.5 billion).
(7) In the case of the 25% participation scenario, the number of shares of common stock to be issued in respect of the Public Preferred Depositary Shares was determined by calculating the pro rata participation rate for each series of Public Preferred Depositary Shares (which is 34.35%, calculated by dividing $5.125 billion by $14.92 billion, the approximate aggregate liquidation preference of Public Preferred Depositary Shares outstanding), and multiplying (i) 34.35% by (ii) the outstanding number of Public Preferred Depositary Shares in each such series by (iii) the number of shares of common stock issuable in respect of each Public Preferred Depositary Share in such series, resulting in the following for each series:

 

  a. Series F: 34.35% x 81.6 million x 7.30769 shares of common stock per depositary share = approximately 205 million shares of common stock
  b. Series E: 34.35% x 6 million x 292.30769 shares of common stock per depositary share = approximately 602 million shares of common stock
  c. Series AA: 34.35% x 148.6 million x 7.30769 shares of common stock per depositary share = approximately 373 million shares of common stock
  d. Series T: 34.35% x 63.373 million x 13.0769 shares of common stock per depositary share = approximately 285 million shares of common stock

A similar calculation was used for each of the other participation scenarios in the table above.

 

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