CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Victor Zorrilla Vargas
Chairman
indepeNDENT MEMBERS
- Alberto Rafael Gómez Eng
- Héctor Medina Aguiar
- Marcelo Zambrano Lozano
- Everardo Elizondo Almaguer
- Adrián Garza de la Garza
PROPIETARY MEMBERS
- Joel Zorrilla Vargas
- Oscar Eduardo Calvillo Amaya
- José Gerardo Clariond Reyes-Retana
- Santiago Pinson Correa
- Adrián Jasso
- Robert Jaime Dotson Castrejón
- Juan Carlos Hernáiz Vigil
Laura Nelly Lozano Romero
Secretary
DIRECTORS
Oscar Eduardo Calvillo Amaya
Chief Executive Officer
Joel Zorrilla Vargas
Vice President of Corporate Strategy
Fernando Rocha Huerta
Chief of Acquisitions and Development Officer
Diego Zorrilla Vargas
Vice President of Acquisitions and New Projects
Laura Mayela Gracia Treviño
Project Director
Miguel Aliaga Gargollo
Chief Financial Officer
Lizette Chang y García
Investor Relations Officer
Alejandro Leal-Isla Garza
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Laura Nelly Lozano Romero
Legal Director
Daniel Arán Cárdenas
Director of Administration
Emilio Antonio Peña Barrera
Information Technology Director
Guillermo Espinoza Garza
Invesment Evaluation Manager
ENTITIES AND MAIN FUNCTIONS
OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ADVISOR
- Assist in the formulation and implementation of investment and financial strategies
- Protect the assets of the Trust
HOTEL OPERATOR (RELATED PARTY)
- Perform hotel management services
Control Trust
- Appoint chairman of technical committee
- Elect majority of members of technical committee, as long as it holds 11% or more of outstanding CBFIs
Trustee
- Acquire, maintain and dispose of the rights that constitute the trust
- Make, administer and maintain eligible investments
- Carry on liquidation process upon termination of the trust
Management Subsidiary
- Manage day-to-day operations and provide management, maintenance and support functions needed to conduct business
CBFI Holders’ Assembly
- Elect members of the Technical Committee, for each 10% of outstanding CBFIs held
- Remove and appoint Common Representative (6)
- Approve transactions that represent 20% or more of assets
- Convey or grant an extension to the Trustee to propose an amendment to the Mexican Issuance Deed (6)
- Remove Advisor, Management Subsidiary and Hotel Operator without “cause” (7)
- Amend certain provisions of trust agreement (7)
- Terminate trust agreement (7)
- Liquidate the assets (7)
- De-list the CBFIs from the National Securities Registry of the Mexican Stock Exchange (7)
- Approve transactions in real estate that represent 20% or more of assets (6)(9)
Technical Committee (1)
- Management of the business
- Approve the emissions of CBFIs
- Approve transactions in real estate representing between 5% and 19.99% of assets
- As necessary, the appointment of the Administrator (with the opinion of the Corporate Governance Committee)
- Designate fiscal and accounting advisor (8)
- Approve amendments to Eligibility Criteria (8)
- Approve policies and transactions between related parties (4)
- Approve leverage policies (after first fiscal year) proposed by Advisor (8)
- Analyze and approve transactions outside Eligibility Criteria
- Appoint legal, tax and accounting advisors, and instruct Trustee to hire such advisors
- Appoint and remove independent auditor, with audit committee recommendation
- Approve internal controls and internal audit rules, with prior opinion of the audit committee
- Establish accounting policies, with prior opinion of audit committee
- Approve financial statements, with prior opinion of audit committee, for consideration at CBFI Holders’ Assembly
- Establish distribution policies and approve distributions above 95% of taxable income
- Appoint members of the audit committee and practices committee (other than chairman)
- Appoint the secretary of technical committee
- Appoint members of the nominations committee
- Review compliance by Management Subsidiary with property management agreement, and by the Advisor with advisory agreement
- Approve acquisitions of 10% or more of outstanding CBFIs (or similar transactions)
- Approve sale of properties in connection with the exercise of rights of first refusal and reversion right
- Approve voting agreements
- Designate a seller in the event that it was necessary to terminate the Trust
- Instruct Trustee to disclose certain statutory events
AUDIT COMMITTEE (2)
- Evaluate independent auditors and analyze their reports
- Solicit the Advisor’s opinion and/or independent experts
- Inform the Technical Committee of important detected irregularities
- Verify the implementation of internal control mechanisms and their compliance with applicable law
- Investigate possible non-compliance of operating and accounting policies
- Oversee that the Advisor complies with the agreements of the Shareholders Meeting and of the Technical Committee
- Recommend the appointment or removal of an independent auditor
- Inform the Technical Committee regarding the status of internal control systems and internal auditing
- Opine regarding the company’s accounting policies, prior to the approval of the Technical Committee
- Analyze and discuss financial, and recommend their approval to technical committee
Practices committee(1)
- Provide opinions regarding to the value of the transactions
- Opine regarding the designation of the Advisor when nominated by the Technical Committee.
- Request and obtain independent expert opinions
- Evaluate the performance of senior executives
- Provide recommendations to the technical committee as to what reports it should request from the Advisor and the Trustee
- Provide recommendations to the Technical Committee on the removal of the Independent Auditor
- Present market studies and recommendations related to sectors in which our properties and assets belong
- Opine regarding distributions that exceed 95% of the company’s Taxable Income
nominations committee (10)
- Search, analyze, evaluate and propose candidates for election as independent members of the Technical Committee.
- Monitor and review all matters related to the independence.
- Certify the Independence, experience and professional prestige of candidates
- Propose the salaries that should be paid to the members of the Technical Committee
Credit Surveillance Committee (11)
- Over see the guide lines of the mechanisms and controls applied to credit lines, loans or financings assumed against the Trust’s Equity
Financial Committee
- Analyze and when necessary, decide upon all matters related to bank loans, financial debt or any of the Trust’s financial matters
(1)The Technical Committee is comprised of 13 proprietary members (five of which are independent) as well as their respective alternates. An alternate member may act as any of the elected board members in the case that any board member is unable to attend a Technical Committee meeting. At least 25% of the proprietary members and their respective alternate members must be independent, as established in the written requirements; over 25% of the Technical Committee’s proprietary members must be independent members.
(2)The Auditing Committee is comprised of three members. Each member of the Auditing Committee must be an independent member as established by the Trust.
(3)The Practices and Investments Committee is comprised of three members. In accordance with the requirements of the Trust, each of the three Practices and Investments Committee members should be independent.
(4)Also requires a majority approval vote by its independent members related to the political reforms pertaining to debt leverage levels.
(5)Any Holder or group of Holders that represent 10% or more of the CBFIs outstanding will have the right to nominate a proprietary member of the Technical Committee and their respective alternate.
(6)Requires the approval vote by the Holders of the majority of the CBFIs outstanding. In the respective Shareholder Meeting, a minimum of 89% of the CBFI’s outstanding must be represented in order for the decision to be valid.
(7)Requires the approval vote of over 89% of the Holders of the CBFI’s outstanding.
(8)Also requires the majority vote in favor of the independent members.
(9)In one transaction, or in a series of related transactions that are considered as one, based on the most recent Audited Financial Results for the previous quarter.
(10)The Nominations Committee is comprised of ve members of whom most must be independent.
(11)The Credit Oversight Committee is comprised of five members, of which three are independent.