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Articles of association

Adopted at the annual general meeting on 26 November 2020.

N.B. The English text is a non-official translation of the Swedish original wording. In case of differences between the English translation and the Swedish original, the Swedish text shall prevail.

1 §       Business Name

The company’s business name is AcadeMedia AB. The company is a public limited liability company (publ).

2 §       Registered office

The company’s registered office shall be situated in Stockholm.

3 §       Object of the company’s business

The company shall, directly or indirectly, act for an appropriate co-ordination and development of the business carried out in subsidiaries, and any other activities compatible therewith.

4 §       Share capital and shares

The number of shares shall be not less than 60,000,000 and not more than 240,000,000. The share capital shall be not less than SEK 60,000,000 and not more than SEK 240,000,000.

Two classes of shares may be issued, ordinary shares and Class C shares. The ordinary shares shall carry one vote each and the Class C shares shall carry one tenth vote each. Shares of either class may be issued up to an amount corresponding to the entire share capital.

Owners of Class C shares are not entitled to dividends. Upon the company’s liquidation, Class C shares carry equivalent right to the company’s assets as other shares, however not to an amount exceeding the quota value of the share.

If the company resolves to issue new ordinary shares and Class C shares, against payment other than contribution in kind, owners of ordinary shares and Class C shares shall enjoy preferential rights to subscribe for new shares of the same class pro rata to the number of shares previously held by them (primary preferential rights). Shares which are not subscribed for pursuant to the primary preferential rights shall be offered to all shareholders for subscription (subsidiary preferential rights). If the number of shares thus offered are not sufficient for the subscription on the basis of subsidiary preferential rights, the shares shall be allocated between the subscribers pro rata to the number of shares previously held and, to the extent such allocation cannot be effected, by the drawing of lots.

If the company resolves to issue new shares of either solely ordinary shares or Class C shares, against payment other than contribution in kind, all shareholders, irrespective of whether their shares are ordinary shares or Class C shares, have preferential rights to subscribe for new shares pro rata to the number of shares previously held by them.

What is set out above with regard to preferential rights shall apply mutatis mutandis in the event of issues of warrants and convertible debentures, and shall not limit the right to resolve upon an issue with deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights.

In the event of a bonus issue, new shares of each class shall be issued pro rata to the number of shares of the same class previously issued. In connection therewith, the owners of existing shares of a certain class shall entitle the holder to new shares of the same class. This shall not entail any restrictions on the possibility of issuing new shares of a new class by means of a bonus issue, following the required amendment to the articles of association.

Reduction of share capital, which in any case shall not fall below the minimum share capital, may, upon the request of an owner of Class C shares and a resolution by the company’s board of directors or the general meeting, take place through redemption of Class C shares. A request from an owner of Class C shares shall be made in writing. When a resolution on reduction has been passed, an amount corresponding to the reduction amount shall be transferred to the company’s reserve fund, if required funds are available. The redemption amount per Class C share shall correspond to the quota value of such shares.

Following notice of the redemption resolution, holders of shares shall promptly receive payment for the shares, or, if authorization from the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Sw. Bolagsverket) or a court is required, following notice that the final decision has been registered.

Class C shares held by the company may, upon decision of the board of directors be reclassified into ordinary shares. Immediately thereafter, the board of directors shall report the reclassification to the Swedish Companies Registration Office for registration. The reclassification is effected then it has been registered and the reclassification been noted in the central securities depository register.

5 §       Financial year

The company’s financial year shall be 0701-0630.

6 §       Board of directors

The board of directors elected by the general meeting shall consist of not less than three (3) members and not more than ten (10) members.

7 §       Auditor

The company shall have not less than one (1) and not more than two (2) auditors and not more than two (2) deputy auditors. As auditor and, when applicable, deputy auditor, shall an authorised public accountant or a registered public accounting firm be elected.

8 §       Notice of general meeting

Notice of general meetings shall be made through announcement in Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and on the company’s website. It shall be announced in Dagens Industri that a notice of a general meeting has been issued.

9 §       Participation at general meetings

Shareholders who wish to participate at a general meeting shall provide a notification of this to the company no later than on the date stipulated in the notice convening the general meeting. The latter mentioned day must not be a Sunday, any other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer’s Eve, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve and must not be more than the fifth weekday prior to the meeting.

One or two assistants to the shareholder shall be entitled to attend the general meeting only if the shareholder has notified the company hereof in the manner set out above.

10 §     Collection of proxy forms and postal voting

The board of directors may collect proxies in accordance with the procedure described in Chapter 7, section 4, second paragraph of the Companies Act (2005:551).

The board of directors may, before a general meeting, decide that shareholders shall be able to exercise their voting rights by post prior to the general meeting.

11 §     Business at annual general meetings

The following business shall be addressed at annual general meetings:

  1. election of a chairman of the meeting;
  2. preparation and approval of the voting list;
  3. approval of the agenda;
  4. election of one (1) or two (2) persons who shall approve the minutes of the meeting;
  5. determination of whether the meeting was duly convened;
  6. submission of the annual report and the auditors’ report and, where applicable, the consolidated financial statements and the auditors’ report for the group;
  7. resolutions regarding the adoption of the income statement and the balance sheet and, when applicable, the consolidated income statement and the consolidated balance sheet;
  8. resolutions regarding allocation of the company’s profits or losses in accordance with the adopted balance sheet;
  9. resolutions regarding discharge of the members of the board of directors and the managing director from liability;
  10. determination of the number of members of the board of directors and the number of auditors and deputy auditors;
  11. determination of fees for members of the board of directors and auditors;
  12. election of the members of the board of directors and auditors and deputy auditors;
  13. other matters, which are set out in the Swedish Companies Act or the company’s articles of association.

12 §     CSD-registered company

The Company’s shares shall be registered in a central securities depository register in accordance with the Swedish Central Securities Depositories and Financial Instruments (Accounts) Act (1998:1479).

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