INTESA SANPAOLO: MEETING OF ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SAVINGS SHAREHOLDERS
Turin - Milan, 27 April 2018 – The Meeting of Ordinary Shareholders and the Special Meeting of Savings Shareholders were held today.
At the Meeting of Ordinary Shareholders, the resolutions detailed below were passed.
Ordinary part
1. Item 1 on the agenda: 2017 financial statements a) Approval of the Parent Company’s 2017 financial statements b) Allocation of net income for the year and distribution to shareholders of dividend and part of the Share Premium Reserve. The Shareholders approved the Parent Company’s 2017 financial statements. The Shareholders also adopted a resolution to distribute €1,353,639,567.85 as dividends on the net income for the year (corresponding to 8 euro cents on each of the 15,859,786,585 ordinary shares and 9.1 euro cents on each of the 932,490,561 savings shares) and €2,065,450,088.96 as a reserve assignment from the Share Premium Reserve (corresponding to 12.3 euro cents on each ordinary share and savings share) for a total amount of €3,419,089,656.81. The reserve assignment will be subject to the same tax regime as the distribution of dividends. Dividends not distributed in respect of any own shares the Bank holds at the record date shall be allocated to the extraordinary reserve. The dividend payment will take place from 23 May 2018 (with coupon presentation on 21 May and record date on 22 May). The dividend yield is 6.4% per ordinary share and 6.5% per savings share based on today’s stock price.
2. Item 2 on the agenda: Increase in the compensation of the Independent Auditors for the assignment of the statutory audit. The Shareholders approved the proposal regarding the updating of the economic terms and conditions currently set out for the assignment of the statutory audit granted to KPMG S.p.A., resulting in an increase - for each of the financial years 2017-2020 - of €140,000, as a result of the increased activities deriving from the entry into force of Legislative Decree no. 135/2016 and Regulation EU no. 537/2014.
3. Item 3 on the agenda: Remuneration and own shares.
a) 2018 remuneration policies for employees and other staff not bound by an employment agreement and for certain categories governed by an agency contract. The Shareholders approved the remuneration policies for 2018, as described in the Report on Remuneration, Section I, 4 “Remuneration policy for employees and staff not bound by an employment agreement” and Section I, 5 “Remuneration policy for certain categories governed by an agency contract”. The Shareholders also voted in favour of the procedures for the adoption and implementation of the remuneration policies, as described in the Report on Remuneration, Section I, 1 “Procedures for adoption and implementation of the remuneration policies”.
b) Confirmation of the increase in the cap on the variable-to-fixed remuneration to all Risk Takers that are not part of the Corporate Control Functions. The Shareholders approved the proposal to confirm the increase in the cap on the variable-to-fixed remuneration from 1:1 to 2:1 to the population identified as Risk Takers not belonging to the Corporate Control Functions.
c) Approval of the 2017 Annual Incentive Plan based on financial instruments. The Shareholders approved the share-based Incentive Plan for 2017 covering Risk Takers who accrue a bonus in excess of the so-called “materiality threshold”, and those Managers or Professionals who are not Risk Takers and accrue “relevant bonuses”. The Plan provides for the free assignment of Intesa Sanpaolo ordinary shares to be purchased on the market.
d) Authorisation to purchase and dispose of own shares to service the 2017 Annual Incentive Plan. The Shareholders authorised the purchase and disposal of own shares to ensure implementation of the Incentive Plan. In accordance with this authorisation:
- Intesa Sanpaolo ordinary shares will be purchased, in one or more tranches, up to a maximum number and a maximum percentage of the Intesa Sanpaolo share capital calculated by dividing the comprehensive amount of approximately €40,000,000 by the official price recorded today by the Intesa Sanpaolo share. As the official price recorded today by the Intesa Sanpaolo ordinary shares was €3.153, the maximum number of shares to be purchased on the market to meet the total requirement of the aforementioned Incentive Plan of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group as a whole amounts to 12,686,330. This represents around 0.08% of the ordinary share capital and of the total share capital (comprising ordinary shares and savings shares);
- the purchase of shares will be executed in compliance with the provisions included in Articles 2357 and following of the Italian Civil Code, within the limits of distributable income and available reserves, as determined in the financial statements most recently approved. Pursuant to Article 132 of Legislative Decree no. 58 of 24 February 1998 and Article 144-bis of the Issuers’ Regulation and subsequent amendments, purchases will be executed on regulated markets in accordance with trading methods laid down in market rules, in full accordance with the regulatory requirements as to equality of treatment among shareholders, the measures preventing market abuse, as well as the market practices permitted by CONSOB. By the date the Group-level purchase programme begins – disclosure of which will be made to the market as required by the regulations – the subsidiaries will have completed the procedure for seeking equivalent authorisation at their shareholders’ meetings, or from the bodies with jurisdiction over such matters within their structures;
- in accordance with the authorisation obtained at the Shareholders’ Meeting today, which is effective for up to 18 months, purchases will be executed at a price identified on a case-by-case basis, net of accessory charges, within a minimum and maximum price range. This price will be determined using the following criteria: the minimum purchase price will not be lower than the reference price of the share recorded in the stock market session on the day prior to each single purchase transaction, less 10%; the maximum purchase price will not be higher than the reference price the share recorded in the stock market session on the day prior to each single purchase transaction, plus 10%. At any rate, the purchase price will not be higher than the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the market;
- pursuant to Article 2357-ter of the Italian Civil Code, the Shareholders authorised the disposal on the regulated market of own ordinary shares exceeding the Incentive Plan’s requirements under the same conditions as those applied to the purchases and at a price no lower than the reference price of the share in the stock market session on the day prior to each single particular transaction, less 10%. Alternatively, these shares may be retained to service possible future incentive plans and/or possible remuneration granted the event of early termination of the employment relationship (Severance).
e) Approval of the 2018-2021 POP (Performance Call Option) Long-term Incentive Plan for Top Management, Risk Takers and Key Managers. The Shareholders approved the 2018-2021 POP (Performance Call Option) Long-term Incentive Plan for Top Management, Risk Takers and Key Managers in Italy.
f) Approval of the 2018-2021 LECOIP 2.0 Long-term Incentive Plan for all employees that are not recipients of the POP Plan. The Shareholders approved a plan based on financial instruments called Leveraged Employee Co-Investment Plan - LECOIP 2.0. This Plan is open to all employees, meaning by that all Professionals and Managers in Italy, with the exception of Top Management, Risk Takers and Key Managers, who are eligible to take part in the POP Plan.
Extraordinary part
1. Item 1 on the agenda: Mandatory conversion of savings shares into ordinary shares and concurrent removal of the indication of nominal value for the shares of Intesa Sanpaolo from the Articles of Association. Amendment of Articles 5 and 29 and removal of Article 30 of the Articles of Association. Pertinent and consequent resolutions.
Shareholders:
- approved the mandatory conversion of the outstanding savings shares – following the cancellation of 61 savings shares by an authorised intermediary, with the reduction of said shares to no. 932,490,500 – into no 969,790,120 ordinary shares of the Company, the latter to consist in newly issued shares, with regular economic rights and having the same features of the ordinary shares outstanding at the date of the conversion, at a conversion ratio, equal to no. 1.04 ordinary shares for each savings share with concurrent removal of the indication of the nominal value of all of the shares of Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. outstanding as at the relative date of effectiveness of the conversion, pursuant to Articles 2328 and 2346 of the Italian Civil Code, so that the corporate share capital remains unchanged and divided into only ordinary shares;
- provided that the mandatory conversion of the savings shares in accordance with the above (and therefore also the effectiveness of any withdrawals that may be exercised by the savings shareholders entitled thereto and of the cancellation of the 61 savings shares) take place subject to:
(i) the approval of the mandatory conversion, along with the relative amendments to the Articles of Association, pursuant to Article 146, paragraph 1, letter b) of Legislative Decree no. 58 of 1998 by the special meeting of the savings shareholders;
(ii) the authorisations of the European Central Bank required under the current legal and regulatory framework, for the purposes of the amendments to the Articles of Association, the inclusion of the ordinary shares that are issued in connection with the conversion in the CET 1 and the possible purchase by the Company of own shares at the end of the liquidation procedure relating to withdrawing shareholders; and
(iii) the amount owed to those who elect to exercise the withdrawal right not exceeding €400 million at the end of the pre-emption and pre-emptive rights offering period concerning any offer to the Intesa Sanpaolo shareholders of the shares held by the withdrawing savings shareholders pursuant to Article 2437-quater, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Italian Civil Code;
- approved the amendment to Articles 5, with sole regard to paragraph 5.1, and 29 of the Company’s Articles of Association;
- granted powers and mandate to the Board of Directors and to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, severally and with full power to sub delegate, to carry out all actions deemed necessary or appropriate to fully implement the above resolutions, including without limitation, (i) to define any additional terms and conditions of the Mandatory Conversion, including, inter alia, the date on which such conversion will be effective upon agreement with Borsa Italiana S.p.A., which must fall after the ex-right date of dividends relating to the financial year ended 31 December 2017; (ii) to define the terms and conditions of the procedure relating to the exercise of the right of withdrawal to which savings shareholders are entitled pursuant to Article 2437, paragraph 1, letter g) of the Italian Civil Code; (iii) to carry out the liquidation process of the savings shares which are the subject matter of the withdrawal process, also purchasing if necessary such shares using the available reserves; and (iv) to carry out any other formality and actions in relation to the overall number of outstanding shares as at the date of effectiveness of the conversion and to obtain the necessary authorisations for the above resolutions and, generally, any other authorisation to fully implement the resolutions, together with any necessary power thereof, with no exclusion and exemption, including the power to fulfil any requests made by the relevant Supervisory Authorities as well as to proceed with the deposit and the registration with the Company Register of the updated Articles of Association with the approved amendments thereto;
- authorised the Board of Directors to sell the Company’s own shares that may be bought as a consequence of rights of withdrawal being exercised, at the end of the liquidation process pursuant to Article 2437-quater of the Italian Civil Code, without limitation, for a consideration which shall not be lower than the share reference price on the trading day preceding each sale with a 10% discount, specifying that the disposal may be carried out on the market or off the market, as spot and/or forward transactions.
2. Item 2 on the agenda: Mandate to the Board of Directors to increase the share capital pursuant to Article 2443, as well as Article 2349, paragraph 1, and Article 2441, paragraph 8 of the Italian Civil Code for the purposes of implementing the 2018-2021 LECOIP 2.0 Long-term Incentive Plan based on financial instruments, referred to under item 3f) of the ordinary part, and consequent amendment of Article 5 (Share Capital) of the Articles of Association.
The Shareholders granted powers, pursuant to Article 2443 of the Italian Civil Code, to the Board of Directors of Intesa Sanpaolo to carry out:
- a share capital increase without payment, in one or more tranches, by 27 October 2019, pursuant to Article 2349, paragraph 1 of the Italian Civil Code, for a maximum amount of €400,000,000 (inclusive of share premium) with the issuance of up to 170,000,000 ordinary shares of Intesa Sanpaolo;
- a share capital increase with payment, in one or more tranches, by 27 October 2019, for a maximum amount of €1,200,000,000 (inclusive of share premium, and net of discount), excluding option rights in favour of the employees of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, pursuant to Article 2441, paragraph 8 of the Italian Civil Code, with the issuance of up to 555,000,000 ordinary shares of Intesa Sanpaolo. The share issue price will be inclusive of a discount from the market price of ordinary shares of Intesa Sanpaolo, calculated as the average of market prices observable in the 30-day period immediately prior to the issue date.
The determination of the maximum number of ordinary shares to be issued shall depend on the issue price, which shall be determined by the Board of Directors. Assuming all employees adhere to the Professional Plan and the Manager Plan, the two share capital increases would have a dilutive effect of 3.5% on the ordinary share capital of Intesa Sanpaolo on the assumption that the share price is €3, and of 4.4% on the assumption that the maximum amount of shares per the Shareholders’ Meeting resolution is issued in a stress scenario at an price of €2.4. Assuming, in addition, that all savings shares are converted into ordinary shares, the dilutive effect would be equal to around 4.1% of the total share capital post-conversion of the savings shares.
As regards the amendments to the Articles of Association approved at the Shareholders’ Meeting, the European Central Bank has already released the verification, required under Article 56 of Legislative Decree 385/1993, that is needed to start procedures for entry in the Company Register.
The Special Meeting of Savings Shareholders, which followed the Meeting of Ordinary Shareholders, resolved on the only item on the agenda, in accordance with Article 146, paragraph 1, letter b) of Legislative Decree no. 58 of 24 February 1998, and approved, to the extent of its responsibility, the resolution passed in the extraordinary session, item 1 on the agenda, of the Meeting of Ordinary Shareholders, as reported above.
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Last updated 27 April 2018 at 19:00
