NATIXIS -2020 Universal Registration Document
GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETINGS Combined General Shareholders’ Meeting of May 28, 2021
Delegates to the Board of Directors, with the option of 2) subdelegation under the conditions set by law, its authority to decide on the issue of shares to be issued following the issue of securities giving access to shares to be issued by the Company, by companies in which the Company directly or indirectly holds more than half of the share capital or by companies that directly or indirectly own more than half of its share capital. This authorization entails, for holders of securities which may be issued by the companies within the Company’s group, the waiver by shareholders of their preferential subscriptionright to subscribe any Company shares; Delegates to the Board of Directors, with the option of 3) subdelegation under the conditions laid down by law, its authority to decide on the issuance (i) of securities giving access to equity securities to be issued by a company in which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, more than half of the share capital and/or (ii) of shares giving access to existing equity securities or giving entitlement to the allocation of debt securities of a third-party company; Decides to set the following limits for the amounts of capital 4) increases authorized in the event of use by the Board of Directors of this delegation: the maximumnominal amount of capital increases that may V be carried out immediately or in the future under this delegation is set at five hundred million (€500 million), in any event, the share issues carried out under this V delegation will not exceed the limits provided for by the regulations applicable on the date of issue (to date, 20% share capital per year), it is specified that the maximumamount of capital increases V carried out or likely to be carried out in the future under this delegationwill be deducted from (i) the amount of the overall cap provided for in paragraph 3 of the 21 st resolution submitted to this meeting or, where applicable, on the amount of the overall ceiling that may be provided for by a resolution of the same nature that may succeed said resolution during the period of validity of this delegation and (ii) on the ceiling provided for in the paragraph 4 of the 22 nd resolution submitted to this meeting or, as the case may be, the amount of the ceiling that may be provided for by a resolution of the same nature that could succeed said resolution during the period of validity of this delegation, to these ceilings will be added, where applicable, the nominal V amount of shares to be issued, in the event of new financial transactions, in order to preserve the rights of holders of securities giving access to the share capital; Sets at twenty-six (26) months, as from the date of this 5) meeting, the period of validity of the delegation of authority covered by this resolution; Resolves to cancel shareholders’ preferential subscription 6) rights to the shares and securities covered by this resolution; Acknowledges that if subscriptions have not absorbed the 7) entire issue, the Board may limit the amount of the transaction to the amount of subscriptions received provided that this amount reaches, at least, the maximum amount of the issue, three-quarters of the issue decided; Acknowledges that this delegation automatically entails, in 8) favor of the holders of the securities issued giving access to the shares to be issued by the Company, the waiver by the
shareholders of their preferential subscription rights to the shares to which these securities entitle them; Decides that the Board of Directors may not, without prior 9) authorization by the General Shareholders’ Meeting, make use of this delegation of authority as from the filing by a third party of a public offer for the Company’s securities. until the end of the offer period; Notes that in accordance with Article L.22-10-52 of the French 10) Commercial Code: the price of directly issued shares shall be at least equal to V the minimum provided for by the regulatory provisions applicable on the issue date (i.e. the average weighted share price for the last three trading days prior to the start of the public offering as defined in Regulation (EU) No. 2017/1129 of June 14, 2017, less 10%) after this average has been adjusted in the case of a difference between entitlement dates, where applicable, the issue price of the securities giving access to shares to be V issued by the Company and the number of shares to which conversion, redemption or more generally transformation of each security giving access to shares to be issued by the Company could give entitlement shall be such that the amount received immediately by the Company, plus, where applicable, the amount it is likely to receive subsequently for each share issued as a result of the issue of these securities shall be at least equal to the minimum subscription price as defined in the previous paragraph; Decides that the Board of Directors, with the option of 11) subdelegation under the conditions set by law, shall have full powers to implement this delegation of authority, in particular to: decide on the capital increase and determine the securities to V be issued, determine the amount of the capital increase, the issue price V and any issue premium charged, determine the dates and terms of the capital increase, the V nature and characteristics of the securities to be created; also decide, in the case of bonds or other debt securities, whether or not they are subordinated (and, where applicable, their rank of subordination, in accordancewith the provisions of Article L.228-97 of the Code), set their interest rate (in particular interest at a fixed or variable rate or at a zero coupon or indexed) and provide, where applicable, for mandatory or optional cases of suspension or non-payment of interest, providing for their duration (fixed or undetermined), the possibility of reducing or increasing the nominal value of the securities and the other terms of issue (including the granting of guarantees or sureties) and amortization (including redemption by delivery). Company assets); where applicable, these securities may be accompanied by warrants giving the right to the allocation, acquisition or subscription of bonds or other debt securities, or provide for the option for the Company to issue securities in the receivable (whether or not equivalent) in payment of interest, the payment of which would have been suspended by the Company, or take the form of complex obligations as defined by the stock market authorities (for example, because of their terms of repayment or payment), compensation or other rights such as indexation, option options); modify, during the life of the securities concerned, the terms and conditions referred to above, in compliance with the applicable formalities,
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NATIXIS UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2020
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