Equita Group — Share Issue/Capital Change 2021

Feb 23, 2021

Informazione Regolamentata n. 20115-6-2021		Data/Ora Ricezione 23 Febbraio 2021 18:11:41	MTA - Star
Societa'	:	Equita Group S.p.A.
Identificativo Informazione Regolamentata	:	142759
Nome utilizzatore	:	EQUITAGROUPN04 - Graziotto
Tipologia	:	2.5
Data/Ora Ricezione	:	23 Febbraio 2021 18:11:41
Data/Ora Inizio Diffusione presunta	:	23 Febbraio 2021 18:11:42
Oggetto	:	Notice of change in share capital
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NOTICE OF CHANGE IN SHARE CAPITAL

Milan, 23rd February 2021

Equita Group S.p.A. (the "Company") announces that on 22 February 2021 the Company filed to the Italian business register the minutes of the Board of Directors' meeting held on 18 February 2021 and the new By-laws. During such meeting the Board of Directors resolved the free share capital increase pursuant to art. 2443 and 2349 of the Italian Civil Code, exercising the mandate conferred by the Shareholders' Meeting on 16 April 2018. The new share capital composition of the Company, in terms of number of shares and voting rights, is the following:

		CURRENT SHARE CAPITAL	PREVIOUS SHARE CAPITAL
	Number of shares	Number of voting rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
Total, of which:	50,224,200	77,239,099	50,000,000	77,014,899
Ordinary shares (regular entitlement) without increased voting rights Coupon No. 3	23,209,301	23,209,301	22,985,101	22,985,101
Ordinary shares (regular entitlement) with increased voting rights Coupon No. 3	27,014,899	54,029,798	27,014,899	54,029,798
Share Capital (€)	€11,427,910.50		€11,376,344.50

With the abovementioned resolution, the Company increased the share capital by a nominal amount of Euro 51,566 and issued no. 224,200 ordinary shares¹ (equal to approximately 0.4% of total outstanding shares), the latter to be assigned to the Group's employees who are beneficiaries of performance shares (already assigned in 2020) as part of the incentive plan "2019-2021 Equita Group Plan based on financial instruments".

Equita Group	Close to Media	FinElk
Investor Relations – Andrea Graziotto	Adriana Liguori	Teresa Wincrantz
ir@equita.eu	adriana.liguori@closetomedia.it	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 "STAR" 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.

¹ Ordinary shares with no-par value and having the same rights of other outstanding shares. The capital increase will be executed by assigning the corresponding amount of profit reserves.