Notice to Extraordinary General Meeting of Elite Asset Management Plc

Elite Asset Management Plc, Company Announcement, 1 August 2017 at 12:00 (EET)

Notice to Extraordinary General Meeting of Elite Asset Management Plc

Elite Asset Management Plc's shareholders are invited to the Extraordinary Annual General Meeting to be held on 30 August 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in the Rake Hall at Erottajankatu 4 C, Helsinki. The reception of the meeting and the distribution of voting tickets will begin at 8.30 a.m.

ITEMS ON THE AGENDA OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The following items shall be discussed in the extraordinary general meeting:

1. Opening of the meeting

2. Calling the meeting to order

3. Election of persons to scrutinize the minutes and to supervise the counting of votes

4. Recording the legality of the meeting

5. Recording the attendance at the meeting and adoption of the list of votes

6. Supplementing the Board of Directors 

Elite Asset Management Plc's shareholders, representing over 50% of the voting rights related to the company's shares, propose to the Extraordinary General Meeting that the Board of Directors be supplemented by one (1) new member, resulting in a total of six (6) members in the Board of Directors.

Elite Asset Management Plc's shareholders, representing more than 50% of the voting rights of the company's shares, propose to the Extraordinary General Meeting that Vincent Trouillard-Perrot be elected as a new member of the Board of Directors.

Vincent Trouillard-Perrot has given his consent to this assignment and his personal information is available on the company's website at www.elitevarainhoito.fi/hallinto/hallitus. Vincent Trouillard Perrot has been assessed to be independent of the company in accordance with the Securities Market Association's Corporate Governance Code of 2015, but dependent on the company's major shareholder.

7. Closing of the meeting

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING DOCUMENTS

The above resolution proposals on the agenda of the Extraordinary General Meeting and this notice to the meeting are available to the shareholders at the latest on 22 August 2017 on Elite Asset Management Plc's website at www.elitevarainhoito.fi and at the company's headquarters at Eteläesplanadi 22 A, 00130 Helsinki. The resolution proposals will also be available at the Extraordinary General Meeting.

The minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting will be available on the abovementioned website at the latest on 13 September 2017.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS

1. Right to participate and registration

The shareholder who is registered on the record date of the Extraordinary General Meeting on 18 August 2017 in the shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd will be entitled to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting. A shareholder whose shares are registered to his personal Finnish book-entry account are registered in the company's register of shareholders.

A shareholder wishing to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting must register for it at the latest on 20 August 2017 at 10 a.m., by which time the registration must be received by the company. You can register 

• via the Internet at www.elitevarainhoito.fi;
• by telephone: 0201 558 610, Monday-Friday from 9:00 to 16:00; or
• by letter: Elite Asset Management Plc, Extraordinary General Meeting, Eteläesplanadi 22 A, 00130 Helsinki.

2. Proxy representative and proxy documents 

A shareholder may participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting and exercise his/her rights at the meeting by way of proxy representation. The proxy representative of a shareholder will have to produce a dated proxy document, or otherwise in a reliable manner demonstrate his/her right to represent the shareholder.

If a shareholder participates in the Extraordinary General Meeting through several proxy representatives who represent the shareholder with shares on different securities accounts, the shares with which each proxy representative represents the shareholder are to be identified in connection with the registration.

Possible proxy documents are requested to be submitted as original documents to Elite Asset Management Plc, Extraordinary General Meeting, Eteläesplanadi 22 A, 00130 Helsinki, before the end of the registration period.

3. Holder of a nominee registered share

The holder of nominee-registered shares is entitled to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting on the basis of the shares entitling him to be registered in the shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd at the GM's record date on 18 August 2017. Participation also requires that the shareholder has been temporarily entered in the shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the basis of these shares at the latest by 25 August 2017 at 10:00 am.

For shares registered in the Register, this is considered to be the registration to the Extraordinary General Meeting.

The holder of a nominee-registered share is advised to request in good time from his custodian the necessary instructions to be temporarily entered in the shareholder register as well as regarding the issuing of credentials and the announcement of the attendance at the General Meeting. The account management organisation of the custodian bank shall request a holder of a nominee-registered share who wishes to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting to be temporarily entered into the company's shareholder register by the above date at the latest.

4. Other information

A shareholder who is present at a general meeting has the right to request information with respect to the matters to be handled at the Meeting in accordance with Chapter 5, Section 25 of the Limited Liability Companies' Act.

At the time of publishing this notice to the Extraordinary General Meeting on 1 August 2017 and before the registration of the new shares issued, Elite Asset Management Plc has a total of 6,900,701 Series A-shares, each of which generates twenty (20) votes at the Annual General Meeting, and 3,137,640 Series B-shares, each of which generates one (1) vote at the General Meeting.

Helsinki, 1 August 2017

ELITE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC
Board of Directors

Further information:
Elite Asset Management Plc 

Daniel Pasternack, CEO of Elite Asset Management Plc
+358 50 569 3416
daniel.pasternack@elitevarainhoito.fi

Kari Juurakko, Chairman of the Board
+358 50 582 7411
kari.juurakko@elitevarainhoito.fi

Certified Advisor Merasco Oy
Tel: +358 9 6129 670

Elite Asset Management Plc is a profitable and growing investment service company that offers versatile and high-quality asset management services for both consumer and professional investors. Elite Asset Management Plc is listed on the First North Finland market maintained by NASDAQ Helsinki (Helsinki Exchanges). Elite Asset Management Plc is the parent company of the Elite Group (Elite). Elite's customer base consists of individuals and corporations that the company serves nationwide in 13 different locations. The first company belonging to the current Elite Group was founded in 2000. Elite employs about 80 investment professionals and offers over 30 tied agents to the Group's services. On behalf of its clients, the company manages assets of approximately EUR 1.6 billion in total. Check out Elite's services at www.elitevarainhoito.fi.

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