Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting of Collector AB (publ)
The shareholders of Collector AB (publ) are hereby invited to an Extraordinary General Meeting on Monday 17 February 2020 at 09:00 a.m. CET at Collector’s office, Lilla Bommens Torg 11 in Göteborg, Sweden. Registration for the Extraordinary General Meeting will commence at 08:30 a.m. CET.
Participation
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting shall:
- be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden on Tuesday 11 February 2020, and
- give notice to attend no later than Tuesday 11 February 2020.
Notice to attend can be made on Collector’s website www.collector.se under the heading ”Extraordinary General Meeting 2020” (which can be found under the section ”About Collector”), by telephone to +46 (0) 771 246 400 (during office hours) or by post by sending a letter to Computershare AB, ”Collector’s EGM”, P.O. Box 5267, SE-102 46 Stockholm, Sweden. Shareholders shall in their notice to attend state their name, personal identification number or company registration number, address, phone number and advisors (no more than two), if applicable.
Nominee-registered shares
Shareholders whose shares are registered in the names of nominees must temporarily re-register such shares in their own name to be entitled to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting. In order for such re-registration to be completed on Tuesday 11 February 2020, shareholders must inform their nominees well before that day.
Proxies
Shareholders represented by a proxy or a representative should send documents of authorisation to Computershare AB, ”Collector’s EGM”, P.O. Box 5267, SE-102 46 Stockholm, Sweden, well before the Extraordinary General Meeting. A template proxy form is available on Collector’s website www.collector.se under the heading ”Extraordinary General Meeting 2020” (which can be found under the section ”About Collector”). Shareholders can order the template proxy form through the same address and phone number as to which notices to attend the extraordinary general meeting can be made.
Shareholders’ personal data
For information regarding the processing of your personal data, please refer to: https://www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf
Proposed agenda
- Opening of the Extraordinary General Meeting.
- Election of Chairman at the Extraordinary General Meeting.
- Preparation and approval of the voting list.
- Approval of the agenda.
- Election of one or two persons to check and verify the minutes.
- Determination of whether the Extraordinary General Meeting has been duly convened.
- Resolution regarding authorization for the Board to resolve on a new issue of ordinary shares with preferential rights for the shareholders.
- Closing of the Extraordinary General Meeting.
Authorization for the Board to resolve on a new issue of ordinary shares with preferential rights for the shareholders. (item 7 on the proposed agenda)
The Board proposes that the Board shall be authorized, until the next Annual General Meeting in Collector AB (publ), to resolve on a new issue of ordinary shares with preferential rights for the existing shareholders (the "Rights Issue"). The net proceeds from the Rights Issue will be used to strengthen the company’s capital base.
By making use of the authorization, the Board shall have the right to execute the Rights Issue with total proceeds of approximately SEK 1 billion through the issuance of, no more than, so many shares that at any time are within the maximum number of shares determined in the Articles of Association and thereby increase the share capital by, no more than, an amount that at any time is within the maximum share capital determined in the Articles of Association. The authorization includes the right to resolve on an issue of new shares to be paid in cash, and the Board may, if it deems it appropriate, allow shares to be paid by way of set-off. The record date for determining the right to receive subscription rights, the subscription period and the subscription price will be determined, and made public, by the Board in connection with the Board's resolution regarding the Rights Issue by virtue of this authorization. The same applies to, inter alia, the number of subscription rights each share shall entitle to as well as to the number of subscription rights that will be required to subscribe for one new ordinary share.
Additional information
Shares and votes
There are a total of 102,690,502 shares in Collector AB (publ). All shares are ordinary shares. As of the date this notice is made public, Collector AB (publ) does not hold any own shares. The total number of votes for all issued shares in Collector AB (publ) is 102,690,502.
Authorization
The Board, or any person appointed by the Board, shall be authorized to make such minor adjustments to the resolutions adopted by the Extraordinary General Meeting as may be required in connection with registration with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and in matters in relation to Euroclear Sweden.
Shareholders’ right to request information
The Board and the Chief Executive Officer shall, if any shareholder so requests and the Board believes that it can be done without material harm to Collector AB (publ), at the Extraordinary General Meeting provide information regarding circumstances that may affect the assessment of an item on the agenda.
Collector is a challenger bank that offers financing solutions to private and corporate customers. Within the Retail segment, the company offers lending to private individuals, invoice and payments by instalments to e-commerce and retail companies, credit cards and deposits. The Corporate segment includes real estate lending, factoring and corporate lending directed mainly at small- and medium-sized enterprises and handling of portfolios of overdue receivables. The company has offices in Gothenburg (head office), Stockholm, Helsinki, Turku and Oslo. Collector AB (publ) is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.