Resolutions of Nixu Corporation’s Annual General Meeting and the organizing meeting of the Board of Directors on March 30, 2021
A. Resolutions of Nixu Corporation’s Annual General Meeting on March 30, 2021
1. Financial Statements, Board of Directors and auditors
The Annual General Meeting resolved to adopt the Annual Accounts of the company and the Consolidated Annual Accounts of the group. The members of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer were discharged from liability for the financial year 1 January–31 December 2020.
The Annual General Meeting resolved that the number of members of the Board of Directors shall be six and that the following ordinary Members of the Board of Directors to be re-elected until the end of the next Annual General Meeting: Kati Hagros, Marko Kauppi, Kimmo Rasila, Anders Silwer and Jaya Baloo as well as Jari Niska as a new ordinary Member of the Board of Directors.
The Annual General Meeting resolved that the remuneration of the Members of the Board of Directors shall be paid as follows: The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall be paid a total of EUR 44,000 as a fixed annual remuneration, the Deputy Chairman shall be paid a total of EUR 33,000 as a fixed annual remuneration, and other Members of the Board of Directors shall be paid a total of EUR 22,000 as a fixed annual remuneration.
In addition, to the annual remunerations mentioned above, a meeting specific remuneration of EUR 300 shall be paid in cash for attendance at meeting outside of the Member’s country of residence.
30% of the fixed annual remuneration mentioned above, shall be paid in Nixu Corporation’s shares repurchased from the marketplace and 70% in cash. The shares shall be repurchased by the company from the marketplace directly for each Member of the Board of Directors within two weeks after the release of the Interim Financial Report of Nixu Corporation from financial period of 1 January to 31 March 2021. The company pays the possible transfer tax in relation to share repurchases. If the shares cannot be repurchased by the company from the marketplace and thus the remuneration cannot be paid in full at said time due to insider regulation or other justified reason, the remaining part of the shares shall be repurchased by the company from the marketplace within two weeks from the release of the Half-Year Financial Report of Nixu Corporation from financial period of 1 January to 30 June 2021. In case the remuneration cannot be repurchased by the company from the marketplace in full by either of the times mentioned above, the company shall pay the remaining part of the fixed annual remuneration in cash. Shares received as a part of fixed annual remuneration cannot be transferred by any Member of the Board of Directors during the term commencing at the end of this Annual General Meeting 2021 and expiring at the end of the Annual General Meeting 2022.
In addition, as a remuneration for the work in the Audit Committee, the Members of the Board of Directors shall be paid as follows: The Chair of the Audit Committee shall be paid in cash a fixed annual remuneration of EUR 4,000; and other Members of the Audit Committee shall be paid in cash a fixed annual remuneration of EUR 2,000. As a remuneration for the work in the Personnel and Remuneration Committee, the Members of the Board of Directors shall be paid as follows: The Chair of the Committee shall be paid in cash a fixed annual remuneration of EUR 2,000; and other Members of the Committee shall be paid in cash a fixed annual remuneration of EUR 1,000.In addition, travel expenses of the Members of the Board of Directors shall be reimbursed in accordance with the company’s travel policy.
The Annual General Meeting resolved that the authorized public accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy was re-elected as the auditor of the company. PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy has announced that Enel Sintonen, Authorized Public Accountant, would be acting as the principal auditor. The Annual General Meeting resolved that the remuneration of the auditor shall be paid according to a reasonable invoice of the auditor.
2. Payment of dividend
The Annual General Meeting resolved, according to the proposal of the Board of Directors, that the loss shown in the balance sheet of the company for Financial Year of 1 January to 31 December 2020, EUR 5,016,744.68, shall be transferred to the retained earnings / loss account and that no dividend shall be paid to the shareholders of the company.
3. Remuneration Report for Governing Bodies
The Annual General Meeting made a resolution on the approval of the Remuneration Report for Governing Bodies. The resolution is advisory.
4. Authorizing the Board of Directors to resolve on the repurchase of the company’s own shares
The Annual General Meeting resolved to authorize the Board of Directors to resolve on the repurchase of the company’s own shares in one or several instalments as follows:
Up to 720,110 shares, shares can be repurchased using funds belonging to the unrestricted equity of the company. The amount corresponds to approximately ten (10) per cent of all the shares in the company, taking the company's own shares already held by the company into account. Repurchases under the authorization can be carried out on a marketplace of which rules allow the company to trade with its own shares. The shares shall be repurchased through public trading on the marketplaces where the shares in the company are admitted to public trading. The consideration for the repurchased shares must be based on the market price.
The authorization shall also entitle the Board of Directors to resolve on a repurchase of shares otherwise than in proportion to the shares owned by the shareholders (directed acquisition). In such event, there must exist weighty financial reason for the company for the repurchase of its own shares.
The shares may be repurchased to implement the company's arrangements in relation to the company’s business operations, to the implementation of the company's share-based incentive programs or to be otherwise transferred or cancelled. In addition, the company can repurchase shares from the marketplace for a Member of the Board of Directors in order to pay the remunerations of the Members of the Board of Directors, either in whole or in part. The repurchased shares can also be held by the company itself.
The Board of Directors was authorized to resolve on all other conditions and matters related to the repurchase of the company’s own shares. The repurchase of the company’s own shares will reduce the unrestricted equity of the company.
The authorization remains in force until the next Annual General Meeting, however, until 30 June 2022 by latest, and it replaces the authorization granted by the previous Annual General Meeting regarding the repurchase of the company’s own shares.
5. Authorizing the Board of Directors to resolve on the issuance of shares, granting of special rights entitling to shares, and the disposal of treasury shares
The Annual General Meeting resolved to authorize the Board of Directors to resolve on the issuance of new shares through a share issue or by granting other special rights entitling to shares, referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Finnish Limited Liability Companies Act, and/or disposing shares held by the company as follows:
New shares or treasury shares may be issued in deviation from the shareholder’s pre-emptive rights, if there exists a weighty financial reason for the company to implement such directed share issue or, in the case of an issue without consideration, an especially weighty financial reason for it, both for the company and with regard to the interests of all the shareholders in the company.
The Board of Directors was authorized to resolve on all other conditions and matters related to the issuance of shares, option rights and to the granting of other special rights entitling to shares as well as the disposal of treasury shares.
The authorization may be exercised to develop the capital structure, expand the ownership base, for the payment of consideration in transactions, when acquiring assets related to the company’s business operations and to implement incentive programs so that the shares are issued directly to the employees and CEOs of the company and its subsidiaries. The maximum number of shares corresponds to approximately 20 per cent of all the registered shares in the company and out of this authorization, number of shares corresponding up to 5 per cent of all the registered shares in the company can be used as an incentive for the personnel.
The authorization remains in force until the next Annual General Meeting, however, until 30 June 2022 by latest, and it replaces the previous authorizations granted regarding a directed share issue and the disposal of treasury shares.
B. Resolutions of the organizing meeting of Nixu Corporation’s Board of Directors
At the Organizing meeting, held after the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected Kimmo Rasila as Chairman of the Board and Marko Kauppi as Deputy Chairman of the Board.
The Board of Directors elected Kati Hagros as Chair and Jaya Baloo and Kimmo Rasila as members of the Personnel and Remuneration Committee.
In addition, The Board of Directors elected Jari Niska as Chair and Marko Kauppi ja Anders Silwer as members of the Audit Committee.
Nixu Corporation
The Board of Directors
Further information:
CEO Petri Kairinen, Nixu Corporation
Telephone: +358 40 832 1832, e-mail: petri.kairinen@nixu.com
Distribution:
Nasdaq Helsinki Oy
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Nixu in Brief:
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