Active Biotech: NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
The shareholders of Active Biotech AB (publ)
are invited to the Annual General Meeting of shareholders to be
held on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Due to the situation resulting from
the Corona virus, the Meeting will be carried out through advance
voting (postal voting) pursuant to temporary legislation. No
meeting with the possibility to attend in person or to be
represented by a proxy will take place.
ENTITLEMENT TO PARTICIPATE
Shareholders who wish to participate in the Meeting must (i) be
recorded in the register of shareholders maintained by Euroclear
Sweden AB on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, and (ii) notify the Company
of their intention to attend the Meeting no later than Wednesday,
May 18, 2022 by casting its advance vote in accordance with the
instructions under the heading “Advance voting” below so that the
advance voting form is received by the Company no later than that
day. In order to be entitled to participate
in the meeting, shareholders whose shares are registered in the
name of a nominee must, in addition to announcing their intention
to participate in the meeting, request that their shares be
registered in their own name so that the shareholder is recorded in
the register of shareholders as of 11 May 2022. Such registration
may be temporary (so-called voting rights registration) and request
for such registration shall be made to the nominee in accordance
with the nominee’s routines at such time in advance as prescribed
by the nominee. Voting rights registrations that have been made no
later than the second banking day after 11 May 2022 will be taken
into account when preparing the share register.There are
218,054,720 shares and votes in Active Biotech. The Company holds
no treasury shares.
ADVANCE VOTINGThe shareholders
may exercise their voting rights at the Meeting by voting in
advance, so called postal voting in accordance with section 22 of
the Act (2022:121) on temporary exceptions to facilitate the
execution of shareholders’ meetings in companies and other
associations. A special form shall be used for advance voting. The
form is available on the Company’s website www.activebiotech.com.
The advance voting form is considered as the notification of
attendance to the Meeting. The completed voting form must be
submitted to the Company no later than Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The
completed form shall be sent to Active Biotech AB (publ), Attn:
Susanne Jönsson, Scheelevägen 22, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden (mark the
envelope “Annual General Meeting”). A completed form may also be
submitted electronically to susanne.jonsson@activebiotech.com. If
the shareholder votes in advance by proxy, a power of attorney
shall be enclosed to the form. Proxy forms are provided at the
Company’s website, www.activebiotech.com, and sent to shareholders
that so request. If the shareholder is a legal entity, a certified
copy of a registration certificate or corresponding document
indicating the authorized signatories of the legal entity shall be
enclosed to the form. The shareholder may not qualify the advance
vote with special instructions or conditions. If so, the vote is
invalid in its entirety. Further instructions and conditions is
included in the form for advance voting.
PROPOSED AGENDA
- Election of Chairman of the Meeting
- Election of one or two persons to verify the minutes
- Preparation and approval of the voting list
- Approval of the agenda for the Meeting
- Determination of whether the Meeting has been duly
convened
- Presentation of the Annual Report and the Auditors’ Report, and
the Consolidated Accounts and the Auditors’ Report for the
Group
- Resolution concerning the adoption of the Income Statement and
the Balance Sheet, and the Consolidated Income Statement and the
Consolidated Balance Sheet
- Resolution concerning the disposition of the Company’s results
pursuant to the adopted Balance Sheet
- Resolution on discharge from liability of the members of the
Board of Directors and the CEO
- Determination of the number of members and alternate members of
the Board of Directors and the number of auditors and alternate
auditors
- Determination of fees payable to the Board of Directors and
auditor
- Election of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Board and
auditor
a) re-election of Michael Shalmib) re-election
of Uli Hacksellc) re-election of Peter Thelind) re-election of Axel
Glasmachere) re-election of Aleksandar Danilovskif) re-election of
Elaine Sullivang) re-election of Michael Shalmi as chairman of the
boardh) re-election of KPMG AB as auditor
- Presentation of the Board of Directors’ remuneration
report for approval
- Resolution concerning Election Committee
- The Board of Director’s proposal regarding share issue
authorization
PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS
Persons to
approve the minutes (item 2)
Magnus Svensson and Werner Burghard, or if one
or both of them have an impediment to attend, the person or persons
instead appointed by the Board of Directors, are proposed to be
elected to approve the minutes. The task of approving the minutes
also includes verifying the voting list and that the advance votes
received are correctly stated in the minutes of the Meeting.
Voting list
(item 3)
The voting list proposed for approval under item
3 on the agenda is the voting list prepared by the Company, based
on the shareholders’ register and advance votes received, and
verified by the persons elected to verify the minutes.
Disposition of
the Company’s results (item 8)
The Board of Directors proposes that no dividend
is paid and that the Company’s accumulated loss shall be carried
forward.
Board of
Directors, etc. (items 1 and 10 – 12)
The Election Committee, comprising Michael
Shalmi (Chairman of the Board), Mats Arnhög (MGA Holding), Per
Colleen (Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund) and Peter Thelin
proposes the following:
Chairman of the Meeting: attorney-at-law Erik
Sjöman or, if he has an impediment to attend, the person instead
appointed by the Board of Directors.
Number of members and alternate members of the
Board of Directors: six ordinary members with no alternates.
Fees payable to the Board of Directors:
unchanged SEK 500,000 to the Chairman of the Board and SEK 200,000
to each of the other Board members who are not employed by the
Company. A member of the Board who performs work for the Company
outside the scope of the Board work may also receive remuneration
on market terms for such work performed.
Board of Directors: re-election of Michael
Shalmi, Uli Hacksell, Peter Thelin, Axel Glasmacher, Aleksandar
Danilovski and Elaine Sullivan.
Chairman of the Board: re-election of Michael
Shalmi.
Number of auditors and alternate auditors: one
auditor with no alternates.
Fees payable to the auditor: in accordance with
approved invoices within the scope of the tender.
Auditors: re-election of KPMG AB. The proposal
regarding auditor is in accordance with the recommendation by the
Audit Committee.
For further information on the board members
proposed for re-election, reference is made to the Company’s
website, www.activebiotech.com.
Election
Committee (item 14)
The Election Committee proposes that the Meeting
assigns the Chairman of the Board the task of convening an Election
Committee, based on the ownership structure at the end of September
2022, comprising the Chairman of the Board and one member appointed
by each of the three largest shareholders of the Company. The
Election Committee shall remain in place until the following
Election Committee has been appointed. If a member of the Election
Committee no longer represents one of the three largest
shareholders in the Company, the Election Committee is entitled to
dismiss the member. In the event that a member of the Election
Committee resigns or is dismissed, the Election Committee may
appoint another member nominated by the major shareholders to
replace such a member. The Election Committee shall perform its
duties in accordance with the stipulations for Election Committees
stated in the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance.
Share issue
authorization (item 15)
The Board proposes that the Annual General
Meeting resolves to grant authorization to the Board, for a period
that does not extend past the date of the next Annual General
Meeting, on one or several occasions, with or without pre-emptive
rights for the shareholders, to resolve on the issue of new shares
and/or convertibles entitling to conversion to shares. It shall
also be possible to make such an issue resolution stipulating
in-kind payment, the right to offset debt or other conditions. The
number of shares issued, or which may arise through the conversion
of convertibles issued with the support of the authorization, may
correspond to not more than 30 percent of the total number of
shares in the Company after utilization of the authorization. The
purpose of the authorization is to enable the financing,
commercialization and development of the Company’s projects and to
provide flexibility in commercial negotiations relating to
partnerships.
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QUESTIONS AND SHAREHOLDERS’ RIGHT TO
REQUIRE INFORMATIONIf any shareholder should so request
and the Board assesses that this can be done without significant
damage to the Company, the Board of Directors and the CEO of the
Company shall provide information about conditions that could
affect the assessment of items on the agenda, the Company’s and
subsidiaries’ financial position as well as the Company’s
relationship to other group companies. A request for such
information shall be made by e-mail to
susanne.jonsson@activebiotech.com or by regular post to Active
Biotech AB (publ), Attn: Susanne Jönsson, Scheelevägen 22, SE-223
63 Lund, Sweden, no later than ten days prior to the Meeting, that
is Monday, May 9, 2022. The information is provided by being made
available at the Company’s offices and the Company’s website,
www.activebiotech.com, no later than Saturday, May 14, 2022.
Furthermore, the information will be sent within the same time
period to the shareholder who so request and provide its postal
address.
DOCUMENTATION, ETC. The Annual
Report, the Board of Directors’ remuneration report and other
supporting resolution documentation will be presented by being held
available at the Company’s premises at Scheelevägen 22 in Lund,
Sweden, and on the Company’s website, www.activebiotech.com, not
later than three weeks prior to the Meeting. The documents will be
sent to shareholders who request a copy and specify their postal
address. The register of shareholders for the Meeting is also made
available at the Company’s premises.
For information about the processing of your
personal data, please refer to
www.euroclear.com/dam/ESw/Legal/Privacy-notice-bolagsstammor-engelska.pdf.
Active Biotech’s corporate registration number is 556223-9227 and
its registered office is in Lund, Sweden.
Lund, April 2022The Board of Directors of
Active Biotech AB (publ)
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