Equita Group — Major Shareholding Notification 2022

Feb 10, 2022

Informazione Regolamentata n. 20115-2-2022		Data/Ora Ricezione 10 Febbraio 2022 18:00:52	Euronext Star Milan
Societa'	:	EQUITA GROUP
Identificativo Informazione Regolamentata	:	157325
Nome utilizzatore	:	EQUITAGROUPN04 - Graziotto
Tipologia	:	REGEM; 2.2
Data/Ora Ricezione	:	10 Febbraio 2022 18:00:52
Data/Ora Inizio Diffusione presunta	:	10 Febbraio 2022 18:00:54
Oggetto	:	Notice of new shareholders' agreement subscription and termination of the fourth shareholders' agreement
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NOTICE OF NEW SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENT SUBSCRIPTION AND SIMULTANEOUS TERMINATION OF THE FOURTH SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENT

• SHAREHOLDERS OF EQUITA GROUP S.P.A. SUBSCRIBE A NEW SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENT UNDER ART. 122, PARAGRAPH 1 AND 5, LETT. A), B), C) AND D) OF THE LEGISLATIVE DECREE NO. 58/1998 ("TUF")
• SIMULTANEOUS TERMINATION OF THE "FOURTH SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENT"

Milan, 10 February 2022

Today 27 shareholders of Equita Group S.p.A. ("Equita Group"), including managers and employees – namely Vincenzo Abbagnano, Fabio Carlo Arcari, Gianmarco Bonacina, Marco Clerici, Fulvio Comino, Marcello Daverio, Martino De Ambroggi, Luigi De Bellis, Fabio Enrico Deotto, Edward Giuseppe Duval, Stefano Gamberini, Matthew Jeremiah Geran, Domenico Ghilotti, Matteo Ghilotti, Stefano Giampieretti, Giuseppe Renato Grasso, Filippo Guicciardi, Stefano Lustig, Giuseppe Mapelli, Sergio Martucci, Stefania Milanesi, Francesco Michele Marco Perilli, Claudio Pesenti, Cristiano Rho, Simone Riviera, Andrea Attilio Mario Vismara and Carlo Andrea Volpe – have signed a new shareholders' agreement (socalled "Shareholders' Agreement Equita Group" or the "Agreement"), under Art. 122, Paragraph 1 and 5, Lett. a), b), c) and d) of TUF. The agreement includes all ordinary shares of Equita Group owned by subscribers, directly and / or indirectly, from time to time.

The Agreement will enter into force the day after the termination date of the First Shareholders' Agreement-Bis (July 31st , 2022) and the maturity is set to March 31st, 2025. As of today, subscribers represent 45.5% of the share capital (22,857,734 ordinary shares of the Company) and 60.6% of the shareholders' meeting voting rights ¹ .

Subscription of the Agreement occurred upon the simultaneous termination of the Fourth Shareholders' Agreement. The latter, relevant under Art. 122 of TUF, was subscribed on November 15th, 2017, by 71 shareholders – on October 2nd , 2018, two other shareholders were added to participants – and entered into force on November 21st, 2019. At the date of termination, the Fourth Shareholders' Agreement represented No. 26,502,868 ordinary shares of the Company (52,230,351 voting rights), equal to 52.8% of the share capital (70.1% of shareholders' meeting voting rights¹ ). The Fourth Shareholders' Agreement governed how participants could potentially sell ordinary shares of the Company.

For more details on the Agreement and on the termination of the Fourth Shareholders' Agreement, please refer to the documentation made available on the Equita website www.equita.eu (Corporate Governance section, Shareholders' Agreements area).

¹ Excluding No. 4,059,802 treasury shares.

Equita Group Investor Relations – Andrea Graziotto ir@equita.eu

Close to Media Adriana Liguori adriana.liguori@closetomedia.it

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FinElk Teresa Wincrantz equita@finelk.eu

Equita, the leading Italian independent investment bank, has been offering its expertise and insight on financial markets to professional investors, corporates and institutions for more than 45 years. The holding Equita Group, listed on the "Euronext STAR Milan" segment of the Italian Stock Exchange, counts its managers and professionals among shareholders (with approximately 54% of the share capital) and this ensures a strong alignment of interests with investors. With its global markets activities, today Equita is the leading independent broker in Italy that offers to its institutional clients brokerage services on equities, fixed income, derivatives and ETFs. Moreover, thanks to the continuous engagement of the award winning research team – acknowledged for its top quality research – the trading floor supports investors' decisions with valuable analyses and investment ideas on Italian and European financial markets. Equita also leverages on a unique investment banking platform that combines independent strategic advice with unparalleled access to capital markets. The wide offering proposed includes advisory services in M&A, other extraordinary financial transactions, along with equity and fixed income capital raising solutions. Our aim is to best serve all clients, from large industrial groups to small and medium enterprises, from financial institutions to the public sector. Lastly, Equita Capital SGR offers to institutional investors and banking groups its asset management competences and its deep understanding of financial markets, especially in mid and small caps. The strong focus on alternative assets like private debt and the asset management strategies based on distinctive areas of expertise of the Group make Equita Capital SGR the best partner for both investors looking for interesting returns and banking groups that would like to co-develop new products for their retail networks.