Koninklijke Brill NV

AGM Information • May 25, 2022

PRESS RELEASE

All proposals approved at Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Leiden, The Netherlands, 25 May 2022: Koninklijke Brill N.V. ("Brill" or "the Company") (EURONEXT Amsterdam: BRILL) announces that at its Annual General Meeting of shareholders (AGM), held today, all proposals were approved.

The shareholders' advisory vote on the 2021 Remuneration report (agenda item 3.b) was positive; the shareholders adopted the financial statements for the 2021 financial year (agenda item 3.c) and approved the proposal of an allcash dividend of EUR 0,90 (agenda item 3.d). Record date is 30 May 2022 and dividend payment will be 31 May 2022.

The proposals to grant discharge to the members of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for the 2021 financial year (agenda items 4.a and 4.b) were approved.

The shareholders approved the proposal to authorize the Management Board (agenda item 6) to repurchase shares in the Company and the designation of the Management Board as the Company's body, authorized to: (i) issue shares, (ii) grant option rights and (iii) restrict or exclude pre-emptive rights (agenda item 7).

A recording of the meeting and the presentation slides from today's AGM will be made available on the Company's website.

As announced earlier in a press release issued at 10 February 2022, Peter Coebergh resigned as CEO today, having reached the end of his term.

The Supervisory Board hopes to conclude the search for a new CEO in the near future and will inform the market accordingly. In the interim, the tasks pertaining to the Chief Executive Officer will be carried out by Jasmin Lange, Chief Publishing Officer, and Wim Dikstaal, Brill's Chief Financial Officer, who was appointed as statutory director following today's AGM.

Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years. Under his leadership, Brill has further prepared itself for a continued positive development as a leading publisher in the field of humanities.

Robin Hoytema van Konijnenburg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board: "On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I want to recognize Peters leadership and thank him for his tireless efforts. Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, Brill has continued to perform strongly with an enhanced focus on our digital offering. Also, under his leadership, Brill has taken a significant step by acquiring the German publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht in March 2021 and more recently Wageningen Academic Publishers. I want to thank Peter for his contribution and wish him the very best."

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Peter Coebergh added: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my six years at Brill of which for four years as CEO. Driven by the new mission statement launched in 2019 (Mission Statement), we have been able to strengthen our business by significantly expanding in Germany and elsewhere through acquisitions and by serving our authors and customers with ever more and better digital services. At this point I want to thank all my colleagues at Brill for their contribution to the realization of our strategic plans."

Leiden, 25 May, 2022

Robin Hoytema van Konijnenburg	Jasmin Lange	Wim Dikstaal
Chairman Supervisory Board	Chief Publishing Officer	Chief Financial Office
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About Brill

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections. Commitment to Open Access and the latest publishing technologies are at the core of Brill's mission to make academic research available for the scholarly community worldwide. The company's key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit brill.com.