Related Party Transaction • Apr 2, 2022
Related Party Transaction
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Pursuant to article 122 of the Consolidated Law on Finance and to articles 130 and 131 of the Issuers Regulation, the following information is released.
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The companies Angel Capital Management S.p.A. ("ACM") and Stella Holding S.p.A. ("Stella" and collectively with ACM the "Parties" and each of them singularly a "Party") signed a shareholders' agreement related to shares and rights respectively held in Saras S.p.A. on 30 March 2022 (the "Shareholders' Agreement"). This Shareholders' Agreement governs the procedures for the joint exercise by ACM and Stella of some rights provided for them on a joint and several basis under the shareholders' agreement signed on the same date by ACM, Stella and the company Massimo Moratti S.a.p.A. di Massimo Moratti (the "Saras Agreement").
The Shareholders' Agreement substitutes the shareholders' agreement signed by the Parties on 3 July 2019 (the "2019 Agreement"), which 2019 Agreement was terminated in conjunction with the execution of the Shareholders' Agreement.
Saras S.p.A. – Raffinerie Sarde, a company limited by shares (società per azioni) established under Italian law with shares listed on the Euronext Milan organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., with its registered office at S.S. Sulcitana 195 Km 19, 09018 Sarroch (Cagliari), registration number in the Register of Companies of Cagliari and fiscal code 00136440922, with a share capital of 54,629,666.67 euro fully paid-up, subdivided into 951,000,000 ordinary shares with no nominal value ("Saras").
The Shareholders' Agreement involves all Saras shares (the "Held Shares") held on the date the Shareholders' Agreement was signed (the "Effective Date"), respectively, by:
Together, at the Effective Date, the shares in Saras held by ACM and Stella are 190.304.559 (with an equal number of voting rights) and represent approximately 20.01% of the share capital of Saras.
The Documents have been translated into English solely for the convenience of the international reader. In the event of conflict or inconsistency between the terms used in the Italian version of the reports and the English version, the Italian version shall prevail, as the Italian version constitutes the official document.
Moreover, the Shareholders' Agreement shall also apply to with reference to further shares in Saras (the "Subsequently Held Shares" and, together with the Held Shares, the "Syndicated Shares") as well as to the related rights (the "Rights") which the Parties, at any title, may become owners of after the Effective Date.
The following entities are party to the Shareholders' Agreement:
It is also specified that, pursuant to Article 93 of the Consolidated Law on Finance, no party has the right to exercise control over the issuer Saras individually.
For the sake of completeness, it should be stated that control over the issuer is exercised on a joint basis by Massimo Moratti S.a.p.A. di Massimo Moratti ("MM S.a.p.A."), ACM and Stella by means of the Saras Agreement.
As indicated above, the signing of the Shareholders' Agreement entails the termination of the 2019 Agreement.
4.1 The Shareholders' Agreement governs the terms and procedures according to which the Parties will jointly nominate candidates for appointment to the corporate bodies of Saras, as provided for by Saras Agreement.
4.2 With reference to the composition of the list of candidates for appointment as members of the Saras's Board of Directors pursuant to Article 4 of the Saras Agreement, ACM and Stella shall present their joint candidatures at the meeting called pursuant to Paragraph 4.1 of the Saras Agreement, on the basis of the following provisions:
by the other Party. It is understood that the candidates shall be presented by the Parties jointly to MM S.a.p.A. for the purpose of drawing up the list of candidates referred to in this paragraph 4.2 based on the order of size of the Relevant Percentages held by the Parties.
In the event that, pursuant to Paragraph 4.5 of the Saras Agreement, the Parties are required to jointly nominate a new director to replace the previous ceased director, the Parties undertake to jointly nominate the person proposed by the Party of which the ceased director was a representative.
4.3 With reference to the composition of the list of candidates for appointment as members of the Board of Statutory Auditors provided for in Article 4.6 of the Saras Agreement, the Parties undertake to meet before the deadline for such appointment to discuss and agree on the names of the candidates for standing and alternate auditors to be appointed jointly by ACM and Stella pursuant to the Saras Agreement.
The Shareholders' Agreement entered into effect as of the Effective Date, i.e. 30 March 2022, and shall remain in effect until 30 June 2024. The Parties acknowledge an agree that the Shareholders' Agreement shall be considered as terminated in the event that the Saras Agreement is terminated for any reason and/or in the event that ACM and/or Stella cease to be owners of the Syndicated Shares and Rights in Saras.
The Parties also acknowledge and agree that, on the Effective Date, the 2019 Agreement is mutually terminated and, therefore, must be considered terminated as of the date on which the Shareholders' Agreement is signed.
The Shareholders' Agreement falls within the scope of the types specified in Article 122, paragraph five, sub-paragraph a), of the Consolidated Law on Finance.
The Shareholders' Agreement will be transmitted to Consob and filed with the Companies Register of Cagliari within the legal time limits.
This essential information is published, pursuant to article 130 of the Issuers Regulation, on the Saras's website at www.saras.it.
The Shareholders' Agreement does not contain neither obligations to deposit the shares transferred under the Shareholders' Agreement nor clauses for the establishment of corporate bodies for its operation.
An extract from the Shareholders' Agreement is published in Il Sole 24 Ore on 2 April 2022.
1 April 2022
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