AGM Information • May 5, 2014
AGM Information
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Notice to attend the Annual General Meeting of Nickel Mountain Group AB (publ)
The Annual General Meeting of Nickel Mountain Group AB (publ), 556227
-8043, (the "Company"), will be held on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 3.00
pm CET at Hotel Rica at Slöjdgatan 7 in Stockholm.
Right to attend and notice to the Company Those wishing to attend the
meeting must:
· be entered as a shareholder in the share register kept by Euroclear
Sweden AB on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, and
· give notice of attendance to the Company no later than 4.00 pm CET
Friday May 30, 2014
Notice of attendance shall be done by regular mail to Nickel Mountain
Group AB (publ), Annual General Meeting 2014, Kungsgatan 44 (7th floor),
SE-111 35 Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone +46 8 402 28 00, by fax +46 8
402 28 01 or by e-mail to [email protected]. When giving
notice of attendance, please state the shareholder's name, social
security number or corporate registration number, address, and telephone
number (office hours). A shareholder may be accompanied by one or two
assistants if the shareholders give notice to the Company of the
accompanying persons in accordance with what has previously been stated
Shareholding in the name of a nominee
To be entitled to participate in the meeting, those whose shares are
registered in the name of a nominee must register the shares in their
own name with the help of the nominee, so that he or she is entered in
the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB on Wednesday, May 28,
2014. This registration may be made temporarily.
Shareholders registered in the Norwegian Verdipapirsentralen (VPS) must
request a temporary entry as shareholders in the share register kept by
Euroclear Sweden AB in order to be entitled to participate in the
meeting. Shareholders wishing to attend the meeting must notify DNB Bank
ASA about this by regular mail to the address Verdipapirservice,
Postboks 1600 Sentrum, 0021 Oslo, by fax: +47 24 05 02 56 or by e-mail
to [email protected] no later than 12.00 noon CET on Friday, May 23, 2014, in
order for DNB Bank to be able to ensure that an entry is made in the
share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB by Wednesday, May 28, 2014,
which is the day when such entry must have been executed. Following the
meeting, DNB Bank will arrange for the shares to be re-registered in the
Norwegian Verdipapirsentralen.
Proxies etc.
Those who do not attend the meeting in person may exercise his or her
rights at the meeting through a proxy in possession of a written proxy
form, signed and dated. A template proxy form will be available on the
Company's website www.nickelmountain.se no later than three weeks before
the meeting including the day of the meeting. The template proxy form
can also be obtained from the Company or can be ordered via telephone in
accordance with the above. A proxy form issued by a legal entity must be
accompanied by a copy of the certificate of registration or a
corresponding document of authority for the legal entity. To facilitate
registration at the meeting, proxy forms, certificates of registration
and other documents of authority should be submitted to the Company at
the address above no later than on Friday May 30, 2014.
Proposed agenda
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Election of chair of the meeting
3. Preparation and approval of voting register
4. Adoption of agenda
5. Election of one or two persons to check the minutes of the meeting
6. Determination of whether the meeting has been duly convened
7. Presentation of the annual report and the auditors' report as well
as the consolidated accounts and auditors' report on the consolidated
accounts
8. Resolution on adoption of the income statement and balance sheet as
well as the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet
9. Resolution on appropriation of the Company's result as shown on the
adopted balance sheet
10. Resolution on discharge of the directors and Managing Director from
personal liability
11. Resolution on the number of directors and deputy directors
12. Election of directors and chair of the Board of Directors
13. Election of auditor
14. Resolution on remuneration and other compensation to the directors
15. Resolution on remuneration payable to the auditor
16. Resolution on instructions for a Nomination Committee
17. Resolution on guidelines for remuneration to the Managing Director
and other senior executives
18. Resolution on authorization to issue shares and certain other
financial instruments
19. Closing of the meeting
Election of chair of the meeting, resolution on the number of directors
and deputy directors, election of directors and chair of the Board of
Directors, election of auditor, resolution on remuneration and other
compensation to the directors, and resolution on remuneration payable to
the auditor (items 2 and 11-15)
The Company's Nomination Committee had not finalized its work with its
proposals for resolutions in respect of the items 2 and 11-15 on the
agenda, in time for the proposals to be included in the notice to attend
the meeting. The Nomination Committee has informed the Company's Board
of Directors that the proposals will be made available well in advance
before the meeting.
Resolution on appropriation of the Company's result as shown on the
adopted balance sheet (item 9)
At the disposal of the meeting is the share premium reserve of SEK
1,148,043,440, the retained earnings of SEK -911,164,645 as well as the
result for the period of SEK -110,388,063. Total unrestricted equity at
the disposal of the meeting thus amounts to SEK 126,490,732.
The Board of Directors proposes that the funds available, SEK
126,490,732, are brought forward.
Resolution on instructions for a Nomination Committee (item 16)
The Company's Nomination Committee, consisting of Mr. Håkan Eriksson,
representing Altro Invest AB, Mr. Erlend Dunér Henriksen, representing
Aroma Holding AS, and Mr. Stefan Persson, chair of the Board of
Directors, jointly representing approximately 28 percent of the shares
and votes of the Company, has informed the Board of Directors that it
intends to propose to the general meeting to resolve on instructions for
a Nomination Committee, mainly in accordance with the following.
The chair of the Board of Directors shall be responsible for contacting
the two largest registered shareholders of the Company as per the end of
the third quarter (i.e. September 30) and to ask each of them to appoint
one member of the Nomination Committee. If such shareholder is not
willing to appoint a member, or if such shareholder is intending to sell
a significant part of his or her shares prior to the formation of the
Nomination Committee, the next shareholder in relation to the size of
the shareholding will be approached. The members appointed in accordance
with this principle, together with the chair of the Board of Directors,
who will convene the committee, is the Nomination Committee. The
Nomination Committee will appoint one of the members as chair of the
committee.
The names of the members of the Nomination Committee shall be disclosed
well in advance of the Annual General Meeting.
The Nomination Committee shall follow and carry out the duties
prescribed in the Swedish Corporate Governance Code. The Nomination
Committee shall prepare proposals to be presented the Annual General
Meeting in respect of resolutions on chair of the Annual General
Meeting, number of Board Directors, remuneration and other compensation
to Board Directors, remuneration to the auditors as well as the
appointment of and instructions for a Nomination Committee.
If any of the shareholders, who have appointed a member of the
Nomination Committee, sells a significant part of his or her shares in
the Company before the conclusion of the work of the Nomination
Committee, the member who is appointed by this particular shareholder
should leave the committee, provided this is the decision by the
Nomination Committee, and be replaced by a member appointed by the
largest registered shareholder of the Company at this point, not having
a representative on this Committee. If any of the members of the
Nomination Committee, before conclusion of the work of the Nomination
Committee, stops representing the shareholder who has appointed this
particular member, the member in question shall be replaced by a new
member appointed by the shareholder in question, provided this is the
decision by the Nomination Committee. If any material changes occur in
the registered shareholding before the conclusion of the Committee's
work, a change in the composition of Nomination Committee shall be done
according to the principles set out above, provided this is the decision
by the Nomination Committee.
The term of office of the Nomination Committee appointed in this way
shall end when a new Nomination Committee has been appointed.
No remuneration shall be paid for the work carried out by the members of
the Nomination Committee. However, the Company shall reimburse
reasonable external expenses that the Nomination Committee considers
essential to be able to carry out its duties.
These instructions will apply until when and if they are replaced.
Resolution on guidelines for remuneration to the Managing Director and
other senior executives (item 17)
The Board of Directors proposes that the general meeting resolves on the
following guidelines for salary and other remuneration to senior
executives for the period until the Annual General Meeting of 2015
mainly in accordance with the following.
General
The Company shall have the levels of remuneration and employment terms
necessary to recruit and retain management of high competence and
capacity to be able to achieve Company goals at a suitable cost. The
guiding principle in setting salary and other remuneration for senior
executives in the Company shall be market conditions, adjusted to the
Company's costs.
Fixed salary
The basic remuneration to senior executives is a fixed salary based on
market conditions, which is determined on an individual basis according
to the criteria above, and the special skills of the person in question.
Retirement benefits
Retirement benefits for senior executives shall be based on market
conditions for equivalent positions at the market and determined on an
individual basis adjusted according to the special skills of the person.
The retirement benefits shall be defined by cost.
Non-monetary benefits
Non-monetary benefits to the senior executives (e.g. cell phone and
computer) shall assist them in their work performance, and shall
correspond to what is reasonable in relation to customary benefits in
the market.
Termination compensation and severance pay
Termination compensation and severance pay shall in no case in total
exceed twelve months' salary.
Non-fixed salary
Non-fixed salary arrangements shall be available, in addition to fixed
-salary arrangements, in certain situations. This type of compensation
shall be clearly related to specific set goals, based on simple and
transparent constructions. The non-fixed salary part shall be linked to
the respective employee's main area of responsibility and mainly consist
of one or more financial and/or operational parameters. The maximum non
-fixed salary will be no more than 50 percent of the fixed salary paid
out to the employee in question during the period covered by the non
-fixed salary.
In those cases where a non-fixed salary is agreed for senior executives,
the salary shall be determined based on (a) the achievement of
previously established goals on a group- and individual level which are
related to management- and production results, as well as the financial
position of the Company, and (b) taking into consideration the
individual's personal development.
All share-related incentive programs shall be decided upon by the
general meeting.
The Board of Directors shall have the right to make exceptions from
these guidelines in individual cases where there are special reasons to
do so.
Resolution on authorization to issue shares and certain other financial
instruments (item 18)
The Board of Directors proposes that the general meeting resolves to
authorize the Board of Directors to, on one or more occasions before the
Annual General Meeting of 2015, resolve on issues of shares, warrants
and/or convertible instruments, mainly in accordance with the following.
a) Issues may be carried out with or without considering the
shareholders' preferential rights.
b) The total number of shares which can be issued through resolutions
under the authorization shall not exceed 4,540,468 shares through share
issues, the exercise of warrants and/or conversion of convertible
instruments (this does, however, not prevent warrants and convertible
instruments from being combined with terms and conditions for
recalculation which, if applied, may result in another number of
shares), corresponding to approximately 21.4 percent of the number of
shares and votes in the Company, or, based om the number of shares and
votes in the Company after the share issue proposed by the Board of
Directors to Extraordinary General Meeting May 8, 2014, given full
subscription, approximately 20 percent of the number of shares and
votes.
c) Issues carried out without the shareholders' preferential rights
with cash payment or payment by set-off of claims, may only take place
at a price in line with the market price of the Company's share with a
deduction for such market-related discount deemed required by the Board
of Directors for successfully carrying out the issue. In case of a
rights issue, the Board of Directors decides on the pricing.
d) The authorization shall include a right to resolve on issues with
cash payment, payment by set-off of claims or payment with non-cash
consideration, and in combination with such conditions referred to in
Chapter 2, section 5 second paragraph, points 2-3 and 5 of the Swedish
Companies Act.
The reason for the Board of Directors' proposal as well as the
possibility to disregard the shareholders' preferential rights is that
the Company must be prepared to without delay improve its financial
position and strengthen the shareholder value.
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Shareholders' right to request information
Upon request by any shareholder and where the Board of Directors
believes that such may take place without significant harm to the
Company, the Board of Directors and the Managing Director should provide
information at the Annual General Meeting in respect of any
circumstances which may affect the assessment of a matter on the agenda,
and any circumstances which may affect the assessment of the Company's
or a subsidiary's financial position and as regards the Company's
relationship to other group companies. The obligation to provide
information relates also to the consolidated accounts.
Documents
Accounting documents and the auditor's report as well as the complete
proposals will be available at office of the Company and on the
Company's website www.nickelmountain.se no later than three weeks before
the meeting including the day of the meeting. Copies of accounting
documents and the auditor's report as well as the proposals will be sent
free of charge to those shareholders who so request and state their
postal address.
Shares and votes
As per the day of this notice, the total number of shares and votes in
the Company is 21,227,721. The Board of Directors has proposed a share
issue to the Extraordinary General Meeting on May 8, 2014, with a total
of 1,474,619 new shares.
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Stockholm, May 2014
Nickel Mountain Group AB (publ)
The Board of Directors
For information, please contact Torbjorn Ranta
Mail: [email protected]
Tel: + 46 8 402 28 00
Cell Phone: +46 708 855504
or contact Erlend Dunér Henriksen
Erlend Dunér Henriksen
Deputy board member
Mobile: +47 920 18 950
E-mail: [email protected]
Cautionary Statement: Statements and assumptions made in this document
with respect to Nickel Mountain Group AB's ("NMG") current plans,
estimates, strategies and beliefs, and other statements that are not
historical facts, are forward-looking statements about the future
performance of NMG. Forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, those using words such as "may", "might", "seeks",
"expects", "anticipates", "estimates", "believes", "projects", "plans",
strategy", "forecast" and similar expressions. These statements reflect
management's expectations and assumptions in light of currently
available information. They are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties, including, but not limited to, (i) changes in the
economic, regulatory and political environments in the countries where
NMG operates; (ii) changes relating to the geological information
available in respect of the various projects undertaken; (iii) NMG's
continued ability to secure enough financing to carry on its operations
as a going concern; (iv) the success of its potential joint ventures and
alliances, if any; (v) metal prices, particularly as regards nickel. In
the light of the many risks and uncertainties surrounding any mineral
project at an early stage of its development, the actual results could
differ materially from those presented and forecast in this document.
NMG assumes no unconditional obligation to immediately update any such
statements and/or forecasts.
Torbjörn Ranta
Managing Director
Tel: 46 8 402 28 00
Mobile: 46 708 855504
E-mail: [email protected]
The vision of Nickel Mountain Group AB is to be an explorer and miner
recognized for our attractive assets and ability to effectively run
projects from exploration to commercialization, leaving a lasting
footprint within the regions we operate through investments, community
engagement and transfer of expertise.
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