1、英文版阿里巴巴合伙人制度阿里巴巴合伙人制度(英文版)IntroductionSince our founders first gathered in Jack Mas apartment in 1999, they and our management have acted in the spirit of partnership. We view our culture as fundamental to our success and our ability to serve our customers, develop our employees and deliver long-ter
2、m value to our shareholders. In July 2010, in order to preserve this spirit of partnership and to ensure the sustainability of ourmission, visionandvalues, we decided to formalize our partnership as Lakeside Partners, named after the Lakeside Gardens residential community where Jack Ma and our other
3、 founders started our company. We refer to the partnership as the Alibaba Partnership.We believe that our partnership approach has helped us better manage our business, with the peer nature of the partnership enabling senior managers to collaborate and override bureaucracy and hierarchy. The Alibaba
4、 Partnership currently has 34 members comprised of 26 members of our management, seven members of management of Ant Financial Services and one member of management of Cainiao Network. The number of partners in Alibaba Partnership is not fixed and may change from time to time due to the election of n
5、ew partners, the retirement of partners and the departure of partners for other reasons.Our partnership is a dynamic body that rejuvenates itself through admission of new partners each year, which we believe enhances our excellence, innovation and sustainability. Unlike dual-class ownership structur
6、es that employ a high-vote class of shares to concentrate control in a few founders, our approach is designed to embody the vision of a large group of management partners. This structure is our solution for preserving the culture shaped by our founders while at the same time accounting for the fact
7、that founders will inevitably retire from the company.Consistent with our partnership approach, all partnership votes are made on a one-partner-one-vote basis.The partnership is governed by a partnership agreement and operates under principles, policies and procedures that have evolved with our busi
8、ness and are further described below.Nomination and Election of PartnersThe Alibaba Partnership elects new partners annually after a nomination process whereby existing partners propose candidates to the partnership committee. The partnership committee reviews the nominations and determines whether
9、the nomination of a candidate will be proposed to the entire partnership for election. Election of new partners requires the approval of at least 75% of all of the partners.To be eligible for election, a partner candidate must have demonstrated the following attributes:a high standard of personal ch
10、aracter and integrity;continued service with Alibaba Group, our affiliates and/or certain companies with which we have a significant relationship such as Ant Financial Services for not less than five years;a track record of contribution to the business of Alibaba Group; andbeing a culture carrier wh
11、o shows a consistent commitment to, and traits and actions consonant with, ourmission, visionandvalues.We believe the criteria and process the Alibaba Partnership applicable to the election of new partners, as described above, promote accountability among the partners as well as to our customers, em
12、ployees and shareholders. In order to align the interests of partners with the interests of our shareholders, we require that each partner maintain a meaningful level of equity interests in our company during such individuals tenure as a partner. Since a partner nominee must have been our employee o
13、r an employee of one of our related companies or affiliates for at least five years, as of the time he or she becomes a partner, he or she will typically already own or have been awarded a personally meaningful level of equity interest in our company through our equity incentive and share purchase p
14、lans.Duties of PartnersThe main duty of partners in their capacity as partners is to embody and promote ourmission, visionandvalues. We expect partners to be evangelists for ourmission, visionandvalues, both within our organization and externally to customers, business partners and other participant
15、s in our ecosystem.Partnership CommitteeThe partnership committee must consist of at least five partners and is currently comprised of Jack Ma, JoeTsai, Jonathan Lu, Lucy Peng and Ming Zeng. The partnership committee is responsible for, among others, administering partner elections. Partnership comm
16、ittee members serve for a term of three years and may serve multiple terms. Elections of partnership committee members are held once every three years. Prior to each election, the partnership committee will nominate a number of partners equal to the number of partnership committee members that will
17、serve in the next partnership committee term plus three additional nominees. Each partner votes for a number of nominees equal to the number of partnership committee members that will serve in the next partnership committee term and all except the three nominees who receive the least votes from the
18、partners are elected to the partnership committee.Partnership CommitteeThe partnership committee must consist of at least five partners and is currently comprised of Jack Ma, JoeTsai, Jonathan Lu, Lucy Peng and Ming Zeng. The partnership committee is responsible for, among others, administering part
19、ner elections. Partnership committee members serve for a term of three years and may serve multiple terms. Elections of partnership committee members are held once every three years. Prior to each election, the partnership committee will nominate a number of partners equal to the number of partnersh
20、ip committee members that will serve in the next partnership committee term plus three additional nominees. Each partner votes for a number of nominees equal to the number of partnership committee members that will serve in the next partnership committee term and all except the three nominees who re
21、ceive the least votes from the partners are elected to the partnership committee.Director Nomination and Appointment RightsPursuant to our articles of association, the Alibaba Partnership has the exclusive right to nominate or, in limited situations, appoint up to a simple majority of the members of
22、 our board of directors.The election of each director nominee of the Alibaba Partnership will be subject to the director nominee receiving a majority vote from our shareholders voting at an annual general meeting of shareholders. If an Alibaba Partnership director nominee is not elected by our share
23、holders or after election departs our board of directors for any reason, the Alibaba Partnership has the right to appoint a different person to serve as an interim director of the class in which the vacancy exists until our next scheduled annual general meeting of shareholders. At the next scheduled
24、 annual general meeting of shareholders, the appointed interim director or a replacement Alibaba Partnership director nominee (other than the original nominee) will stand for election for the remainder of the term of the class of directors to which the original nominee would have belonged.If at any
25、time our board of directors consists of less than a simple majority of directors nominated or appointed by the Alibaba Partnership for any reason, including because a director previously nominated by the Alibaba Partnership ceases to be a member of our board of directors or because the Alibaba Partn
26、ership had previously not exercised its right to nominate or appoint a simple majority of our board of directors, the Alibaba Partnership will be entitled (in its sole discretion and without the need for any additional shareholder action) to appoint such number of additional directors to the board a
27、s necessary to ensure that the directors nominated or appointed by the Alibaba Partnership comprise a simple majority of our board of directors.In determining the Alibaba Partnership director nominees who will stand for election to our board, the partnership committee will propose director nominees
28、who will be voted on by all of the partners, and those nominees who receive a simple majority of the votes of the partners will be selected for such purposes. The director nominees of the Alibaba Partnership may be partners of the Alibaba Partnership or other qualified individuals who are not affili
29、ated with the Alibaba Partnership.The Alibaba Partnerships right to nominate or appoint up to a simple majority of our directors is conditioned on the Alibaba Partnership being governed by the partnership agreement in effect as of the completion of our initial public offering in September 2014, or a
30、s may be amended in accordance with its terms from time to time. Any amendment to the provisions of the partnership agreement relating to the purpose of the partnership, or to the manner in which the Alibaba Partnership exercises its right to nominate a simple majority of our directors, will be subj
31、ect to the approval of the majority of our directors who are not nominees or appointees of the Alibaba Partnership and are “independent directors” within the meaning of Section 303A of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual. The provisions relating to nomination rights and procedures desc
32、ribed above are incorporated in our articles of association. Pursuant to our articles of association, the Alibaba Partnerships nomination rights and related provisions of our articles of association may only be changed upon the vote of shareholders representing 95% of the votes present in person or
33、by proxy at a general meeting of shareholders.Our board of directors currently consists of eleven members, and five of these directors are Alibaba Partnership nominees. If at any time our board of directors consists of less than a simple majority of directors nominated or appointed by the Alibaba Partnership for any
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