AGM Information • May 20, 2021
AGM Information
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To the shareholders in
Kongsberg Automotive ASA

Kongsberg, 20 May 2021
The shareholders are hereby notified of the Annual General Meeting of Kongsberg Automotive ASA (the "Company") on
Reference is made to the annual report available at the Company's web pages (www. kongsbergautomotive.com) and the Board of Directors' proposed resolutions (Attachment 1).
6.1. Election of directors to the Board
6.2. Approval of remuneration to the members of the Board and the board committees The Nomination Committee's recommendation is attached (Attachment 3).
The Nomination Committee's recommendation is attached (Attachment 3).
8 Approval of the Auditor's fee
The Board of Directors' recommendation is attached (Attachment 1).
The Board's proposal and the Guidelines are attached herewith (Attachment 1 and 2).
Please note: Due to the corona pandemic and meeting restrictions, shareholders are urged not to attend the general meeting in person. Shareholders are urged to vote in advance or deliver a proxy with voting instructions.
Shareholders with access to VPS Investor Services are urged to use the advance voting function by accessing VPS Investor services or by following the link at the Company's IR pages https://www.kongsbergautomotive.com/investor-relations/. Shareholders who do not have access to VPS Investor Services are urged to provide a proxy with voting instructions per item to the chairman of the Board, Mr. Firass Abi-Nassif, or any person appointed by him, as set out in Appendix 4 to this notice. A voting proxy without instructions can also be granted to the chairman of the board of directors Mr. Firass Abi-Nassif, or any person appointed by him, through VPS Investor Services or by using Appendix 4 to this notice. A company certificate must be enclosed with the proxy in the event that the principal is a corporate entity. The registration deadline in VPS Investor Services is 8 June 2021 at 14:00 hrs (Norwegian time). Proxies sent by post or e-mail must be received at the latest by the same deadline at the following address: Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge, Issuer Services, Postbox 1166 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo or [email protected]
Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting are required to register no later than 7 June 2021 at 12:00 hours (Norwegian time) through VPS Investor Services or by sending the attendance form enclosed as Appendix 5 to Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Norge, Issuer Services, Postbox 1166 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo, [email protected]. Shareholders or representatives not complying with this deadline, will be denied access to the meeting in accordance with section 7 of the articles of association and Section 5-3 of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act due to the current corona pandemic restrictions in Oslo.
The Company reserves the right to have the chairman of the board, board members, the CEO or any other person required to be present at the Annual General Meeting, or any representative of such persons, attending the meeting through video link or phone in accordance with section 2-3 of the temporary act concerning exemptions from the requirements to hold physical meetings in the company legislation to mitigate consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak. The Company also reserves the right to right to conduct the meeting as an electronic meeting in accordance with the said act, in which case information about access procedures will be sent to all shareholders who have registered for attendance by the deadline set out above.
The Company's annual report and annual accounts for 2020 are available at the Company's web pages https://www.kongsbergautomotive.com/investor-relations/. Other documents that will be presented at the general meeting and proposals for resolutions are accessible at the same website.
The Company has at the date of this notice issued 1,054,860,644 shares each carrying one vote. All shares enjoy equal rights. At the date of this notification, the Company owned 3,716,304 (0.35%) treasury shares for which voting rights may not be exercised.
The shareholders have the right to speak at the general meeting, the right to be accompanied by an advisor, to give such advisor the right to speak, and the right to present alternatives to the board's proposals in respect of matters on the agenda at the general meeting. The shareholders may require the Board and the chief executive officer to furnish in the General Meeting available information about matters that may affect the consideration of a) the approval of the annual accounts and the annual report, b) any matters submitted to the shareholders for decision and c) the Company's financial position, and the business of other companies in which the Company participates and any matter which the general meeting is to deal with unless the information required cannot be given without disproportionately harming the Company.
RE: Item 5 of the Agenda: Adoption of the consolidated and parent company financial statements for 2020, including the allocation of the profit/loss for the year, approval of the annual report and consideration of the statement on corporate governance
The Board requests that the Annual General Meeting adopts the following decision:
The Annual General Meeting approved the consolidated and parent company financial statements for 2020 in accordance with the Board's proposal. The annual report was approved. The Annual General Meeting decided that no dividend should be paid for 2020.
The Annual General Meeting allocated Kongsberg Automotive ASA's annual result as follows: Transferred to retained earnings EUR (10.7) million.
The statement on corporate governance will be considered.
In compliance with the specification received from the auditor, the Board asks the Annual General Meeting to adopt the following decision:
The Annual General Meeting approved the auditing fees for Kongsberg Automotive ASA for 2020 at EUR 165.9 thousand.
The total fee for auditing of Kongsberg Automotive group companies (excluding Kongsberg Automotive ASA) in 2020 amounted to EUR 519.4 thousand.
Pursuant to section 16-6a of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act, the Board has prepared Guidelines for Salary and Other Remuneration to Senior Executives. The Guidelines are attached as Attachment 2.
The Board requests that the Annual General Meeting adopts the following decision:
The Annual General Meeting approved the Guidelines for Salary and Other Remuneration to Senior Executives.
The Company seeks the approval from the Annual General Meeting to continue the long term incentive program (the "LTI") that was introduced in 2018 based on the recommendations of Willis Towers Watson for executives and global managers.
The key objectives of the proposed 2021 LTI plan are to attract and retain key personnel, to further align the interests of the Company's management and the Company's shareholders, and to promote a stronger focus on long-term priorities for senior management of the Company.
A key condition of the LTI plan is that eligible executives (Global Leadership Team) that desire to participate in the LTI plan must satisfy the Company's new holding requirements. In summary, these requirements require LTI participants to hold shares in the Company in the amount corresponding to 2 annual base salaries for the Chief Executive Officer, one annual base salary for the Presidents and Chief Financial Officer, and 0.5 annual base salaries for the rest of the Global Leadership Team. For other LTI plan participants outside of the Global Leadership Team there are no holding requirements. The Global Leadership Team will be
granted two years upon the effective date of the program implementation (June 2018) for initial participants to reach 20% of the holding requirements and an additional 3 years to reach full compliance. Qualifying shares for the purpose of the holding requirements are shares owned outright, vested restricted stock/RSUs, shares held in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan or Self-Investment Plan, and vested but unexercised "in-the-money" stock options.
As was the case in 2018 and 2019, the proposed 2021 LTI plan consists of two components: 1) 50% of the respective LTI value will be awarded as performance-contingent stock options or similar instruments, 2) the other 50% will be awarded as time-vested restricted shares or similar instruments. Based on the individual LTI target value of each eligible participant, the corresponding number of performance-contingent stock options is calculated based on the Black Scholes evaluation of a third-party consultant.
The vesting of the performance-contingent stock options will be based on the Company's Total Shareholder Return ("TSR") performance versus a Board defined relative peer group of dedicated automotive companies. Only in case the Company clearly outperforms this peer group by more than one standard deviation from the peer group TSR performance over the vesting period of 3 years, 100% of granted stock options will vest. With a Kongsberg Automotive TSR performance within one standard deviation of its peer group, 75% of options will vest. If Kongsberg Automotive TSR performance is more than one standard deviation below the peer group over the vesting period, no manager will vest any performancecontingent stock options. The vesting period is defined as three years from the grant date and the overall life-time of the options expire in the 10th anniversary of the grant date (if vested).
The time-vested restricted shares will have a defined vesting period of three years, different to previous years in which there was a staggered approach in which the shares vested partially on an annual basis. This means that all time-vested restricted shares will only vest in 3 years from the grant (June 2024).
Eligible participants under the program are a defined group of up to 140 managers (Global Leadership Team, Senior Leadership Team and selected key employees). The individual LTI target value is based on the role & responsibility and is increased with higher responsibility/grade (between 100% and 10% of base salary).
Overall, the Company requests approval for an LTI value of approx. EUR 3.7 million. Assuming a share price in the range of NOK 2.50 to 3.50, this would correspond to a maximum number of 9.5 million performance-contingent stock options and 6.5 million restricted shares. The final number of awarded shares and options will depend on the share price on the day of the Annual General Meeting. In the event that the share price is outside the assumed range, the awards will not exceed the figures above.
On this background, the Board of Directors propose that the Annual General Meeting resolve as follows:
The Annual General Meeting approved the proposed Long-Term Incentive plan for 2021.
Further to resolution by the Annual General Meeting of 30 June 2020 and resolution by the Extraordinary General Meeting 29 January 2021, the Board has an authorization to acquire up to 74,479,910 treasury shares in the Company with a nominal value of up to NOK 74,479,910 comparable to 10 percent of the Company's share capital at the time of the Annual General Meeting of 2020. The Company owns at the date of this notification 3,716,304 treasury shares, which equals 0.35% of the total share capital. The main objective for the authorization to acquire treasury shares was to secure a sufficient number of shares to be able to execute the Company's LTI program.
As the said authorization expires, the Board proposes that the Annual General Meeting grants a similar authorization to the Board, which shall be effective until the ordinary Annual General Meeting in 2022 or at latest 30 June 2022.
The proposal is made as the Company requires effective equity instruments, including the possibility to call in and disburse capital through the authorizations for increasing share capital and acquiring treasury shares and further to execute the LTI. The authorization would also be expedient in the event of, and may be used in connection with, any acquisition where settlement takes place wholly or partially in the form of consideration shares in the Company.
The proposed authorization shall be limited to a number of shares representing 10% of the share capital of the Company.
Accordingly, it is proposed that the Annual General Meeting adopts the following resolution:
The Board is authorized to acquire up to 105,486,064 treasury shares on behalf of the Company, cf. §§ 9-2 ff. of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act, on the following conditions:
The Board proposes that the Company's general meeting authorizes the Board to increase the Company's share capital by up to 10%. The authorization will include a right to waive the shareholders' pre-emptive rights and to resolve capital increases against considerations other than cash. The purpose of the authorization is to enable the Board to issue shares in the Company (i) as consideration in connection with acquisition of enterprises, (ii) in connection with equity financing of acquisitions in cash or the Company's general business as well as to (iii) fulfill obligations under the Company's LTI program.
Accordingly, it is proposed that the Annual General Meeting adopts the following resolution:
Company to undertake particular duties, cf. section 10-2 of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act. The authorization can be used in connection with mergers pursuant section 13-5 of the Norwegian Public Limited Companies Act.
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