Remuneration Information • Mar 9, 2023
Remuneration Information
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Informative Document
(Drafted in accordance with Art. 84-bis of the Regulation adopted by CONSOB with resolution no. 11971 dated 14 May 1999 as amended and supplemented)
This document (the "Informative Document"), drafted in accordance with Art. 84-bis and Diagram 7 of Annex 3A of the Regulation adopted by CONSOB with resolution no. 11971 dated 14 May 1999 as amended and supplemented (the "Issuers' Regulation"), concerns the adoption proposal of the medium-long term incentive plan approved by the Board of Directors of d'Amico International Shipping S.A.
On March, 9th 2023, the Board of Directors of d'Amico International Shipping S.A. approved, with the prior favourable opinion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the proposal to submit to the Company's Shareholders' in its meeting held on April 18th 2023, in accordance with Art. 114-bis of Italian Legislative Decree no. 58 dated 24 February 1998 as amended and supplemented ("TUF", the "Consolidated Finance Law"), the adoption of the incentive plan known as "2022-2024 Medium-Long Term Variable Incentive Plan" (the "Plan" or the "Incentive Plan").
The Plan involves assigning a bonus of combined cash and DIS ordinary shares free of charge to the people of the company considered strategic against the achievement of specific performance targets, strictly correlated to the Strategic Plan and measured at the end of the vesting period.
The Plan is considered to be of "particular significance", in accordance with Art. 114-bis, paragraph 3 of the Consolidated Finance Law and Art. 84-bis, paragraph 2 of the Issuers' Regulation, as the recipients include persons who: (i) cover the role of member of the Board of Directors of the Company or of companies controlled by it; (ii) perform management functions in the Company or in companies controlled by it; (iii) cover the role of managers having regular access to privileged information and the power to adopt management decisions that may affect the evolution and future prospects of the Company or of companies controlled by it.
The Informative Document is available to the public at the registered office at Borsa Italiana S.p.A. and on the DIS internet website – www.damicointernationalshipping.com – Corporate Governance Section – Remuneration.
For the purposes of this Document, the terms and expressions listed below, indicated in bold type and with initial upper-case letter, have the meaning indicated alongside each of them; the terms and expressions defined in the plural are also understood to be defined in the singular, and vice versa:
"DIS Group" or "Group": collectively DIS and the companies controlled by it in accordance with Art. 93 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 58 dated 24 February 1998 (the "Consolidated Finance Law").
"EBIT" Earnings Before Interest and Tax: the adjusted annual consolidated operating profit of d'Amico International Shipping S.A.1 used to calculate the ROCE.
1 EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes) as per financial statements prepared according to IFRS, excluding the expenses related to the Medium-Long Term variable incentive Plan, and adjusted to exclude the accounting result on the disposal of DIS' vessels (including the impairment relating to such disposals), but including for each vessel sold, the vesting period result ("VPR") on the disposal of the relevant vessel, where the VPR is defined as the sale price of the relevant vessel net of the actual direct sale costs, less the market value ("MV"), less estimated direct sale costs of 1.0% of the MV, of the relevant vessel at the beginning of each vesting period ("VP").
The vessel's MV will be equal to the broker valuation or average of broker valuation(s) used for the assessment of compliance with DIS' financial covenants for that same vessel. If for any vessel, such a broker valuation as at the beginning of the VP were not available, a valuation as at the beginning of the relevant Vesting Period, from the broker which provides most of the valuations for DIS' vessel financings at the time, will be used. The adjusted is also to include the share of the results of the consolidated companies accounted for with the equity method, although as per IFRS 16 accounting principles, these appear below the EBIT line. Also, for these companies consolidated with the equity method, the results are to exclude the accounting results on the disposal of the respectively owned vessels and to include the VPR, as described above.
1.1 Indication of the name of recipients who are members of the board of directors of the financial instruments' issuer, of the companies controlling the issuer and of the companies controlled, directly or indirectly, by it.
The Plan is intended for Executive Directors of the Company's Board of Directors. In order to be identified among the Beneficiaries, the following requirements must be present when attributing the bonus:
The Beneficiaries falling within the indicated categories are the executive directors of the DIS Board of Directors, namely:
The Plan is aimed, as well as at the persons indicated in paragraph 1.1 above, at those employees and collaborators of the Group identified from time to time by the Board of Directors who hold or perform strategically significant roles or functions in, or for, the Group and for whom an action to strengthen their loyalty is justified, with a view to creating value. For these purposes, the Beneficiaries are identified: (i) from employees of Group companies holding a permanent employment relationship with the aforementioned companies.
After the approval of the Board of Directors of March 9th 2023, the Beneficiaries will include:
Not Applicable
c) individuals controlling the issuer, who are employees or who work as independent contractors in the issuer: Not Applicable
The Plan does not identify specific categories of employees or collaborators at whom it is aimed. The Plan does not schedule differentiated characteristics depending on the position of the Beneficiaries.
The Plan is considered an efficient tool for increasing the loyalty of persons deemed strategic for the Group's growth.
The purposes pursued by the Board of Directors through the adoption of the Plan are mainly the following:
The 2022-2024 Medium Long Term Incentive Plan schedules the assignment of a bonus of combined cash and DIS ordinary shares subject to meeting an access condition ("Gate") represented by the average of the ROCE earned in the vesting period (higher than 5%) and specific performance targets, namely:
Those performance targets, defined in close relationship with the Company's medium-long term strategic objectives, have a different percentage weight and their assessment is based upon gradual thresholds (from the Minimum to Maximum achievement level), as shown by the table below:
| Performance Indicator | Weight | Achievement Level | Pay-out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusted ROCE (a) | 75.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target | 100% | ||
| Min | 70% | ||
| Hedging Effectiveness (b) | 5.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target% | 100% | ||
| Min% | 50% | ||
| Daily G&A (c) | 5.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target | 100% | ||
| Min | 50% | ||
| Direct Operating Costs (d) | 5.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target | 100% | ||
| Min | 50% | ||
| EEXI/EEDI, CO2 per ton-miles for all owned and bareboat vessels (e) |
5.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target | 100% | ||
| Min | 50% | ||
| EEOI, CO2 per ton-miles for all owned and bareboat vessels' spot voyages (f) |
5.0% | Max | 110% |
| Target | 100% | ||
| Min | 50% |
After having finalised and assessed the targets, the actual quantification of the bonus is also subject to an indicator of relative type that measures the shareholder return (relative Total Shareholder Return) with respect to an international panel of reference2 and which functions as a multiplier/de-multiplier in an amount equal to +/- 10%.
The Plan schedules a calculation mechanism of the Bonus Pool which follows a "top-down" logic and is determined as a percentage of the EBIT (as described in Note no.1 in the paragraph "Definitions"). A cap is also scheduled to the maximum distributable bonus pool linked to the value of the average ROCE achieved in the period of reference, amounting to 7.5%. The activation and distribution process of the Plan's Bonus Pool is described in detail below:
| Beneficiaries | % Bonus Pool |
|---|---|
| CEO and Executive Chairman | % |
| Executive Director | % |
| Chief Financial Officer | % |
| Chief Operating Officer | % |
| Other Beneficiaries | % |
The Board of Directors, within 30 days from the approval of the Group's consolidated financial statements at the end of the vesting period, will communicate to the Beneficiaries any achievement of the targets indicated above.
2 The Companies Ardmore, Skorpio Tankers, Hafnia Tankers and Torm are part of the panel of reference.
Not applicable.
2.4 Reasons for any decision to attribute remuneration plans based upon financial instruments not issued by the issuer, such as financial instruments issued by subsidiaries or parent companies or third-party companies compared to the group of belonging; if the aforementioned instruments are not traded on regulated markets, information on the criteria used for determining the value attributable to them.
Not applicable.
2.5 Assessments in relation to significant tax and accounting implications that influenced the definition of the plans.
The Plan is attributed in compliance with applicable tax and accounting rules.
2.6 Any support of the plan by the Special Fund for incentivising the investment by workers in enterprises, indicated in Art. 4, paragraph 112 of Italian Law no. 350 dated 24 December 2003.
There are no provisions for the Plan to be supported by the Special Fund for incentivising the investment by workers in enterprises.
The Board of Directors, on March 9th 2023, having received the prior favourable opinion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, resolved to submit the Plan to the Shareholders' Meeting so that it could be approved and so that every necessary and essential power could be granted to the Board of Directors to implement it in full.
The Board of Directors, therefore, beside the Shareholders' approval, has delegated to the competent company functions the implementation of the Plan.
The process will be concluded when the Beneficiaries accept the Plan after signing the Acceptance Form.
Within the limits provided by the legislation, including regulatory, in force each time, the Board may grant specific powers to complete one or more of the activities relating to the administration of the Plan.
The Board of Directors may revise the Plan, also in relation to any variations of the underlying objectives, making amendments to the Regulation, so as to keep unchanged, as far as possible, the essential contents of the Plan and the benefits for the recipients of the same.
As stated previously, each decision of the Board of Directors, in accordance with the Plan, may be assumed subject to the prior non-binding opinion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee (and - if necessary - any other competent body of DIS).
The Plan schedules the assignment of DIS shares free of charge. In fact, after the vesting period, the bonus payment will be made partly in cash and partly in DIS deferred shares which will actually be made available after 1 and 2 years.
The Company intends to use the treasury shares held in the portfolio at any time to execute its assignment obligations of the DIS Shares under the Plan.
Without prejudice to the delegations attributed to the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the ordinary administration activities of the Plan, each director who is not a member of the Company's Nomination and Remuneration Committee contributes to implementing the Plan only based upon his/her capacity as member of the Board of Directors of the Company itself. In the case of a conflict of interest, the general provisions and procedures regulating operations in conflict of interest are applied.
The Board of Directors, on March 9th 2023, approved the proposal to submit to the Shareholders' Meeting of April 18th 2023, the adoption of the Plan, after the favourable opinion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee meeting held on February 8 th 2023.
The granting of the bonus is resolved by the Board of Directors, after the performance period, subject to the prior favourable opinion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, having verified the achievement level of the targets (according to what is illustrated in more detail in paragraphs 2.2, 2.3 and 3.4 above). No instruments will be assigned at the start of the Plan; they
will be assigned only after verifying the achievement of the "gate" and the targets relating to the performance period.
At the end of the trading session of March 9th 2023, the date on which the Company's Board of Directors - at the proposal of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee - resolved to propose the adoption of the Plan to the Shareholders' Meeting, the Company's Shares had a market price of Euro 0.495.
3.9 For plans based upon financial instruments traded on the regulated markets, in what terms and by what methods does the issuer take account, as part of identifying the assignment timescale of the instruments in implementing the plans, of the possible temporal coincidence between: (i) that assignment or any decisions assumed in that regard by the remuneration committee, and (ii) the dissemination of any relevant information in accordance with Art. 114, paragraph 1; for example, if that information is: a. not already public and likely to influence the market prices positively, or b. already published and likely to influence the market prices negatively.
The number of shares to be paid will be determined based upon the arithmetic average of the official market closing prices of the DIS ordinary shares in the last calendar month of the year prior to the board resolution of verification of the results achieved in the corresponding vesting period (fair market value).
The shares will be assigned in full respect of reporting obligations, guaranteeing transparency and parity of information to the market, in respect of the Company's internal procedures, so that the Plan is not influenced by any dissemination of significant information (in accordance with Art. 114, paragraph 1 of the Consolidated Finance Law).
The Plan concerns the free assignment of DIS ordinary shares at the end of the vesting period, which will be made available at the end of two deferment periods (as described in more detail in paragraph 4.2).
For the purposes of assigning the DIS Shares to the Beneficiaries, the DIS treasury shares already in the portfolio at any time will be used in service of the Plan.
The Plan schedules three cycles commencing in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Each cycle is subject to a two-year vesting period with the provision of a cash % paid up-front and a % of free shares assigned with two-year deferment.
The diagram below illustrates, as example, the duration and functioning of the Plan:
The end of the Plan is scheduled for 2028, at the expiry of the two-year deferment relating to the final attribution related to the vesting period 2024-2025.
At the date of this Informative Document it is not possible to determine the number of DIS Shares to be assigned to the Beneficiaries in accordance with the Plan, as that number depends on the total equivalent cash value of the Bonuses to be paid in relation to the achievement of the strategic targets. In fact, the number of shares to be assigned will be determined at the end of the performance period having calculated the final company results (as described in more detail in paragraph 3.9)
4.5 Implementation methods and clauses of the plan, specifying if the actual attribution of the instruments is subject to the occurrence of conditions or the achievement of certain results, also in terms of performance; descriptions of those conditions and results.
The implementation methods and clauses of the Plan are specified in the points illustrated above in this Informative Document.
As regards the performance results to which the attribution is subject, see point 2.2 above, which lists the targets to be achieved.
The Company has the right to request the return of the variable remuneration (both short-term and long-term) paid (or to retain the variable remuneration subject to deferment), if the same is later found to have been paid or calculated based upon data that are manifestly incorrect (clawback and malus clauses).
There are no availability restrictions.
4.7 Description of any termination conditions in relation to the attribution of plans in case in which the recipients perform hedging operations enabling the neutralisation of any prohibitions on sale of the assigned financial instruments, also in the form of options, or financial instruments originating from the exercise of those options.
Not applicable, as in the case of hedging operations, no termination conditions are provided.
The Beneficiaries will only be entitled to receive the bonus accrued if they are in office or in the role at the end of the vesting period, as defined in paragraph 2.2, and in any case at the time of payment, without prejudice to the right of the Board of Directors to assess any exceptions to that rule.
No causes of annulment of the Plan are scheduled.
The Company does not have the right to redeem financial instruments of the Plan but there is only provision for so-called claw back clauses. In fact, if the performance targets have been ascertained by the Board of Directors based upon data that are later found to be incorrect due to fraudulent behaviours, the Company has the right to obtain the return of the bonus and in any case of the shares and/or the return of the sale value (if the shares have already been sold), within 2 years from the bonus being assigned.
Not applicable, as there are no loans or other benefits scheduled for the beneficiaries.
At the date of this Informative Document, it is not possible to determine the maximum expected cost for the Company. However, that cost may never exceed the limit provided by the cap on the maximum bonus pool distributable, linked to the value of the average ROCE achieved in the period of reference amounting to 7.5%.
No effects are expected on the share capital amount, as the share provision serving the Plan will be constituted by DIS treasury shares already in the portfolio at any time.
No other limit is scheduled for exercising the voting right and for attributing capital rights.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
4.18 Methods (US/European), timescale (e.g. valid periods for exercise) and exercise clauses (for example, knock-in and knock-out clauses).
Not applicable.
4.19 Strike price of the option or methods and criteria for its determination, with particular regard: a) to the formula for calculating the strike price in relation to a certain market price (known as fair market value) (for example: strike price equal to 90%, 100% or 110% of the market price), and b) methods of determining the market price taken as a reference for determining the strike price (for example: last price on the day before the assignment,
average of the day, average of the last 30 days, etc.).
Not applicable.
4.20 If the strike price is not equal to the market price determined as indicated in point 4.19.b (fair market value), motivation for that difference.
Not applicable.
4.21 Criteria based upon which different strike prices are planned between the various entities or various categories of recipient entities.
Not applicable.
4.22 If the financial instruments underlying the Options are not traded on the regulated markets, indication of the value attributable to the underlying instruments or the criteria for determining that value.
Not applicable.
4.23 Criteria for adjustments rendered necessary following extraordinary capital operations and other operations involving a variation of the number of underlying instruments (capital increases, extraordinary dividends, grouping and splitting of underlying shares, merger and demerger, conversion operations into other categories of shares, etc.).
The Board of Directors may make the necessary adjustments in the case of payment of extraordinary dividends, purchase of treasury shares, extraordinary capital operations of DIS not connected to the Plan or to other plans of similar nature, regulatory changes (also in relation to corporate governance) or, in any case, the occurrence of any other event likely to influence the rights of the Beneficiaries (such as, by way of example, grouping or splitting of shares, mergers, demergers, listing revocation of the Shares, promotion of public offerings or exchange concerning the Shares). The necessary changes may be made to the Regulation, so as to keep unchanged, as far as possible, the essential contents of the Plan and the benefits for the recipients of the same, complying with the generally accepted mathematical formulae used by Stock Market operators.
Any rounding required due to the existence of fractions is done downwards and therefore the Beneficiary, irrespective of the fraction amount, will be entitled, in the concurrence of all other conditions provided, to one less Share.
If the targets in terms of operating profit (EBIT) following the modifications by the Board of Directors may vary significantly, those changes must be coherently reported in determining the Targets.
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Table no. 1 required by paragraph 4.24 of Diagram 7 of Annex 3A to the Issuers' Regulation, will be provided in accordance with the methods indicated in Art. 84-bis, paragraph 5, letter a) of the Issuers' Regulation.
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