CapMan Plc
Stock Exchange Release / Notice to General Meeting
2 February 2023 at 08:15 a.m. EET
CapMan Plc’s Notice to the Annual General Meeting
Notice is given to the shareholders of CapMan Plc (“CapMan” or the “Company”) to the Annual General Meeting (the “General Meeting”) to be held on Wednesday, 15 March 2023 at 10:00 a.m. (EET) at Kämp Symposion at the address Pohjoisesplanadi 29, 00100 Helsinki. The reception of persons who have registered for the meeting and the distribution of voting tickets will commence at 9:30 a.m. (EET).
CapMan provides the option for shareholders to exercise their voting rights without having to be physically present at the General Meeting by voting in advance. In addition, the shareholders can follow the General Meeting via a webcast, to which an access link will be sent prior to the General Meeting. Shareholders have the option to ask questions in advance with respect to the matters to be considered at the General Meeting. For further instructions, please refer to Section C “Instructions for the participants of the General Meeting” of this notice.
A. Matters on the Agenda of the General Meeting
At the General Meeting, the following matters will be considered:
1. Opening of the General Meeting
2. Calling the General Meeting to order
3. Election of the person to scrutinise the minutes and to supervise the counting of votes
4. Recording the legality of the General Meeting
5. Recording the attendance and adoption of the list of votes
6. Presentation of the Annual Accounts, the Report of the Board of Directors and the Auditor’s Report for the year 2022
Review by the CEO and by the auditor concerning the auditor’s report.
The Company’s Annual Report 2022 will include the Company’s Annual Accounts, the Report of the Board of Directors and the Auditor’s Report, and it will be made available on the Company’s website at www.capman.com/shareholders/general-meetings/ on 21 February 2023 at the latest.
7. Adoption of the Annual Accounts
8. Resolution on the use of the profit shown on the balance sheet and the payment of dividend and the repayment of equity
According to the Annual Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2022, CapMan’s distributable funds amounted to approximately EUR 45.7 million.
The Board of Directors proposes to the General Meeting that a dividend and equity repayment in the total amount of EUR 0.17 per share would be paid for the financial period that ended on 31 December 2022 based on the balance sheet adopted for 2022. The dividend and equity repayment would consist of a dividend portion that would equal EUR 0.08 per share and an equity repayment portion that would equal EUR 0.09 per share. The equity repayment would be made from the Company’s invested unrestricted equity fund.
The dividend and equity repayment would be paid in two instalments.
The first instalment would be EUR 0.09 per share and would consist of a dividend portion that would equal EUR 0.04 per share and an equity repayment portion that would equal EUR 0.05 per share. The first instalment would be paid to a shareholder who on the record date of the payment, 17 March 2023 is registered as a shareholder in the shareholders’ register of the Company maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy. The first instalment would be paid on 24 March 2023.
The second instalment would be EUR 0.08 per share and would consist of a dividend portion that would equal EUR 0.04 per share and an equity repayment portion that would equal EUR 0.04 per share. The second instalment would be paid in September 2023 to a shareholder who on the record date of the payment is registered as a shareholder in the shareholders’ register of the Company maintained by Euroclear Finland Oy. The Board of Directors would resolve on the payment separately and would confirm the record and payment dates for the second instalment in its meeting scheduled for 13 September 2023. The preliminary record date for the second instalment would be 15 September 2023 and the preliminary payment date 22 September 2023.
9. Resolution on the discharge of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors and the CEO from liability
10. Presentation and adoption of the remuneration policy for the Company’s governing bodies
Presentation of the updated remuneration policy for the Company’s governing bodies and an advisory decision of the General Meeting on the approval of the remuneration policy.
The remuneration policy will be published by a stock exchange release and will be made available on CapMan Plc’s website www.capman.com/shareholders/general-meetings/ by 21 February 2023 at the latest.
11. Presentation of the Company’s Remuneration Report
The Company’s Remuneration Report for the financial year 2022 will be made available on the Company’s website www.capman.com/shareholders/general-meetings/ on 21 February 2023 at the latest.
12. Resolution on the remuneration of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors
The Shareholders’ Nomination Board proposes to the General Meeting that the monthly fees payable to the Board members in cash for the term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting are as follows:
- Chair of the Board of Directors: EUR 5,000/month (2022: EUR 5,000)
- Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors: EUR 4,000/month (2022: EUR 4,000)
- Chair of the Audit Committee: EUR 4,000/month (2022: EUR 4,000), if he/she is not simultaneously acting as Chair or Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors
- Board members: EUR 3,250/month (2022: EUR 3,250)
- Johan Bygge
- Catarina Fagerholm
- Johan Hammarén
- Mammu Kaario
- Olli Liitola