Decisions of the Annual General Meeting of Basware Corporation

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Basware Corporation, stock exchange release, March 15, 2016 at 16:00
 
Decisions of the Annual General Meeting of Basware Corporation

The Annual General Meeting of Basware Corporation held on 15 March 2016 adopted the annual accounts for the financial period ended on 31 December 2015. The members of the Board of Directors as well as the CEO were discharged from liability for the financial period ended on 31 December 2015.

The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors that no dividend will be paid for the year 2015.

The Annual General Meeting decided the number of members of the Board of Directors to be six. Mr. Hannu Vaajoensuu, Mr. Michael Ingelög, Mr. Ilkka Sihvo, Ms. Tuija Soanjärvi, Mr. Anssi Vanjoki and Mr. David Bateman were elected as members of the Board of Directors.

The Annual General Meeting decided that the remuneration for the members of the Board of Directors will be paid as follows: members EUR 27,500 per annum, vice chairman EUR 32,000 per annum and chairman EUR 55,000 per annum. In addition, chairmen of the Board of Directors and its committees shall receive EUR 500 per attended meeting and members of the Board of Directors and its committees shall receive EUR 400 per attended meeting. Out of the annual remuneration to be paid to the Board members, 40 per cent of total gross compensation amount will be used to purchase Basware Corporation's shares at trading on regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. However, this only concerns Board members whose ownership of Basware Corporation is less than 5,000 shares. The purchase of shares will take place as soon as possible after the decision by the General Meeting. Shares received as remuneration may not be sold or otherwise transferred during a period of two years. This restriction does not concern persons who are no longer Board members. Travel expenses of the members of the Board of Directors are reimbursed in accordance with the company's travel policy.

Ernst & Young Oy, Authorized Public Accountants organisation, was elected as the company's auditor. Ernst & Young Oy has advised that it will appoint Ms. Terhi Mäkinen, Authorized Public Accountant, as the principally responsible auditor of the company. It was decided that the remuneration of the auditor is paid according to reasonable invoice and that travel expenses of the auditor are reimbursed in accordance with the company's travel policy.

Authorizing the Board of Directors to decide on the repurchase of the company's own shares

The Annual General Meeting decided to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on repurchase of company's own shares in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors. By virtue of the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to decide on repurchasing a maximum of 1,420,000 company's own shares. The company's own shares shall be repurchased otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders by using the non-restricted equity through trading on regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd at the market price prevailing at the time of acquisition. The shares shall be repurchased and paid for in accordance with the rules of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd and Euroclear Finland Ltd. The shares shall be repurchased for use as consideration in possible acquisitions or other arrangements related to the company's business, as financing for investments or as part of the company's incentive program or to be held by the company, to be conveyed by other means or to be cancelled. The Board of Directors shall decide on other terms and conditions related to the repurchase of the company's own shares. The Repurchase Authorization shall be valid until 30 June 2017 and shall revoke the previous authorizations for repurchasing the company's own shares.

Authorizing the Board of Directors to decide on share issue as well as on the issuance of options and other special rights entitling to shares

The Annual General Meeting decided to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on issuing new shares and/or conveying the company's own shares held by the company and/or granting special rights entitling to shares pursuant to Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Finnish Companies Act in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors.

New shares may be issued and the company's own shares may be conveyed to the company's shareholders in proportion to their current shareholdings in the company or by waiving the shareholder's pre-emption right, through a directed share issue if the company has a weighty financial reason to do so, such as using the shares as consideration in possible acquisitions or other arrangements related to the company's business, as financing for investments or as part of the company's incentive program. The new shares may also be issued in a free share issue to the company itself.

New shares may be issued and the company's own shares held by the company may be conveyed either against payment or for free. A directed share issue may be free only if there is an especially weighty financial reason both for the company and with regard to the interests of all shareholders in the company.

Based on the authorization, the Board of Directors may decide to issue a maximum of 2,840,000 new shares and convey a maximum of 1,487,464 of the company's own shares held by the company. The number of shares to be issued to the company itself together with the shares repurchased by the company on basis of the repurchase authorization shall be at the maximum of 1,420,000 shares.

The Board of Directors may grant special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Finnish Companies Act, which carry the right to receive, against payment, new shares of the company or the company's own shares held by the company. The right may also be granted to the company's creditor in such a manner that the right is granted on a condition that the creditor's receivable is used to set off the subscription price (convertible bond). The maximum number of new shares that may be subscribed by virtue of the special rights granted by the company is in total 1,000,000 shares which number shall be included in the maximum number of new shares stated above.

The subscription price of the new shares and the consideration payable for the company's own shares shall be recorded under the invested non-restricted equity fund. The Board of Directors shall decide on all other terms and conditions related to the authorizations. The authorizations shall be valid until 30 June 2017 and shall revoke the previous authorizations for share issues and granting of stock options and other special rights entitling to shares.

Establishing a permanent Shareholders' Nomination Board

The Annual General meeting decided to establish a permanent Shareholders' Nomination Board in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors. The Nomination Board shall be responsible for preparing and presenting proposals covering the remuneration and number of members of the company's Board of Directors as well as proposal on the members of the Board of Directors to Annual General Meeting and, where needed, to an Extraordinary General Meeting. The Nomination Board shall also be responsible for identifying successors for existing Board members.

The Nomination Board shall consist of four (4) members, three of which shall be appointed by the company's three largest shareholders, who shall appoint one member each. The chairman of the company's Board of Directors shall serve as the fourth member.

The company's largest shareholders entitled to appoint members to the Nomination Board shall be determined annually on the basis of the registered holdings in the company's shareholders' register held by Euroclear Finland Ltd as of the first weekday in September in the year concerned. As regards individual persons as shareholders, their direct ownership and ownership of corporations over which he/she exercises control as well as ownership of his/her spouse and children, will be taken into account in the determination. If a shareholder who has distributed his/her holdings e.g. into several funds and has an obligation under the Finnish Securities Markets Act to take these holdings into account when disclosing changes in share of ownership makes a written request to such effect to the chairman of the Board of Directors no later than on the weekday prior to the first weekday in September such shareholder's holdings in several funds or registers will be combined when calculating the shares which determine the nomination right.

The chairman of the company's Board of Directors shall request each of the three largest shareholders established on this basis to appoint one member to the Nomination Board. In the event that a shareholder does not wish to exercise his/her or its right to appoint a member, it shall pass to the next-largest shareholder that would not otherwise be entitled to appoint a member. In case two shareholders have an equal number of shares and votes and the representatives of both such shareholders cannot be appointed to the Nomination Board, the decision between them shall be made by drawing lots.

The chairman of the Board of Directors shall convene the first meeting of the Nomination Board, which will be responsible for electing a chairman from among its members; the Nomination Board's chairman shall be responsible for convening subsequent meetings. When the Nomination Board has been elected, the Company will issue a release to this effect.

The Nomination Board shall serve until further notice, unless the General Meeting decides otherwise. Its members shall be elected annually and their term of office shall end when new members are elected to replace them.

The Nomination Board shall submit its proposals to the company's Board of Directors annually in time for them to be included in the notice of the meeting and in any case, at the latest, by 10th of February preceding the Annual General Meeting. Proposals intended for a possible Extraordinary General Meeting shall be submitted to the company's Board of Directors in time for them to be included in the notice of the meeting.

The Annual General meeting further decided to adopt the Charter of the Shareholders' Nomination Board.

First meeting of the Board of Directors

In its first meeting held after the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected Hannu Vaajoensuu as the Chairman and Ilkka Sihvo as the Vice Chairman of the Board.

BASWARE CORPORATION
Board of Directors

For more information, please contact:

Hannu Vaajoensuu, Chairman of the Board, Basware Corporation
Tel. +358 40 501 8250

Distribution:
Nasdaq Helsinki
Main media
www.basware.com/investors

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