Resolutions of the Annual General Meeting and the Board of Directors’ organizational meeting of Nightingale Health Plc
Nightingale Health Plc
Company release
16 November 2023 at 5:30 p.m. (EET)
The Annual General Meeting of Nightingale Health Plc was held on 16 November 2023. The meeting was held as a fully virtual remote meeting in accordance with Chapter 5, Section 16, Subsection 3 of the Finnish Companies Act. The General Meeting adopted the Financial Statements and the Consolidated Financial Statements, discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability and approved in an advisory vote the Remuneration Report of the governing bodies for the financial period of 1 July 2022–30 June 2023.
Use of profit shown on the balance sheet and the payment of dividend
The General Meeting resolved that based on the balance sheet adopted for the financial period of 1 July 2022–30 June 2023, no dividend is paid, and that the loss of the financial period is recorded in retained earnings.
Board of Directors
The number of members of the Board of Directors was confirmed to be six (6). Antti Kangas, Olli Karhi, Ilkka Laurila, Leena Niemistö, Timo Soininen and Teemu Suna were re-elected as members of the Board of Directors.
The General Meeting resolved that the members of the Board of Directors are paid a monthly remuneration of EUR 2,000.
Auditor
Authorized Public Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy was elected as the Auditor, and it has announced Panu Vänskä, Authorized Public Accountant, to be the Auditor with principal responsibility. The remuneration of the Auditor is paid in accordance with a reasonable invoice approved by the company.
Authorizing the Board of Directors to decide on the repurchase of company’s own shares
The General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on the repurchase of the company’s own shares on the following terms and conditions:
By virtue of the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to repurchase a maximum of 2,058,592 A-series shares and 3,915,397 B-series shares by using the non-restricted equity of the company. The shares may be repurchased in one or more lots.
The company’s own shares shall be repurchased at the market price prevailing at the time of the repurchase through public trading on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland marketplace organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd or otherwise at a market price. The authorization entitles the Board of Directors to decide on the repurchase also other than in proportion to the shareholdings of the shareholders (directed repurchase).
The shares may be repurchased to be used in the implementation of possible acquisitions or other arrangements within the company’s business, to finance investments, to develop the company’s financial structure, as part of the implementation of possible incentive schemes of the company and/or otherwise to be kept by the company, transferred or cancelled.
The authorization includes the right of the Board of Directors to decide on other terms and conditions related to the repurchase of the company’s own shares. The authorization is valid for 18 months. The authorization revokes the authorization to repurchase the company’s own shares decided by the previous Annual General Meeting on 17 November 2022.
Authorizing the Board of Directors to decide on the share issue and granting of special rights entitling to shares
The General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on issuing new shares, conveying the company’s own shares held by the company and/or granting of special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Companies Act on the following terms and conditions:
Maximum amount of shares to be issued
By virtue of the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to issue and/or convey a maximum of 594,992 A-series shares under one or more decisions. The share issue and shares granted under the special rights are included in the specified maximum amount.
In addition, by virtue of the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to convey a maximum of 577,920 EMP-series shares held by the company under one or more decisions.
The authorization does not apply to the company’s B-series shares.
The authorization now granted revokes the authorization decided by the Annual General Meeting on 17 November 2022 to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on the share issue and granting of special rights entitling to shares.
The authorization now granted does not revoke or change the authorization resolved at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 18 February 2021, which is valid until 18 February 2026. By virtue of the granted authorization and the unused part of the already valid authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to issue and/or convey no more than 2,058,592 A-series shares and 7,900,000 B-series shares of the company in total. The share issue and shares granted under the special rights are included in the mentioned maximum amounts. In addition, by virtue of the authorization now granted, the Board of Directors is entitled to convey a maximum of 577,920 EMP-series shares held by the company.
Other conditions
The shares may be issued either against payment or without payment and they may also be issued to the company itself. The authorization entitles the Board of Directors to implement the share issue also as a directed issue. The authorization may be used in the implementation of possible acquisitions or other arrangements within the company’s business, to finance investments, to develop the company’s financial structure, as part of the implementation of possible incentive schemes of the company and/or for other purposes decided by the Board of Directors.
The authorization includes the right of Board of Directors to decide on other terms and conditions of the share issue and granting of special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Companies Act. The authorization is valid for 18 months.
Publication of the minutes
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting will be available on the company’s website on 30 November 2023 at the latest.
Resolutions of the Board of Directors of Nightingale Health Plc
In the organizational meeting held after the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected Leena Niemistö as chair from among its members. The other members of the Board of Directors are Antti Kangas, Olli Karhi, Ilkka Laurila, Timo Soininen and Teemu Suna.
NIGHTINGALE HEALTH PLC
For further information:
CEO Teemu Suna, ir@nightingalehealth.com
Certified Adviser:
Oaklins Merasco Ltd, tel. +358 9 6129 670
About Nightingale Health
Nightingale Health is The Preventative Health Company. Staying healthy is one of the top priorities in human life. Our health has a profound impact on our quality of life, and it’s also strongly connected to the lives of those close to us. Nightingale Health enables prevention by combining the power of our in-house developed, advanced blood analysis technology with unprecedented access to global health repositories and world-leading medical research. With this combination, we go beyond the traditional healthcare and wellbeing tools: We provide the scientific connection to multiple health and disease outcomes and the ability to predict future healthy years.
Nightingale Health operates globally with a parent company in Finland and seven subsidiaries in countries such as Japan, the United States, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. Nightingale Health has customers in more than 34 countries in the healthcare and medical research sectors. The company’s technology is being used in many of the world’s leading health initiatives, such as the UK Biobank, and over 530 peer-reviewed publications validate the technology. The company’s Series B shares are listed on the First North Growth Market Finland marketplace. Read more: https://nightingalehealth.com
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