9 April 2020 Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting
COVID-19 emergency - Shareholders' Meeting without physical attendance
In order to minimize the risks associated with the ongoing health emergency, the Company has decided- to make use of the right - established by the Decree - to provide that the shareholders' attendance at the Shareholders' Meeting shall be made exclusively through the Company-Designated Proxy Holder provided for by article 135-undecies of the Consolidated Finance Act ("TUF"), without physical participation by the shareholders.
The information to participate by proxy is available on this web page, in the below section "Voting Proxies"
The UniCredit Shareholders' Meeting was held in Milan in both Ordinary and Extraordinary session on April 9th, 2020 (in a single call).
The Shareholders' Meeting documentation is available on this section; moreover, general information on the Shareholders' Meeting process is available on the "Shareholders' Meeting" section.
Voting proxies
In compliance with the provisions of applicable law, any person eligible to vote may choose to be represented in a Shareholders' Meeting in one of the manners illustrated below.
Voting proxies and Company-Designated Proxy Holder
Following the entry into force of the "Cura Italia" Decree Law ("Decree") which introduced some exceptional provisions related to the COVID-19 emergency applicable to the Shareholders' Meetings of the listed companies, UniCredit S.p.A. has decided, in order to minimise the risks connected with the ongoing health emergency, to make use of the right - established by the article 106 of the Decree - to provide that the shareholders' attendance at the meeting shall be made exclusively through the Company-Designated Proxy Holder provided for by article 135-undecies of the Consolidated Finance Act ("TUF").
In accordance with the aforesaid provision, shareholders who intend to participate in the Shareholders' Meeting must therefore grant proxy and voting instructions to Computershare S.p.A., whose offices are in Turin, at Via Nizza no. 262/73, in its role as Company-Designated Proxy Holder for this purpose pursuant to Article 135-undecies of the Legislative Decree no. 58/98, in accordance with the manner provided by current legal framework.
In this regard, in order to facilitate the submission of the proxy and voting instructions, until 12:00 p.m. on April 8th, 2020 from this section of the UniCredit website it will be possible to fill in and send the relevant form prepared by Computershare S.p.A., also online and in a guided manner, clicking here.
Shareholders are advised to use the online procedure; alternatively, the form, which can be downloaded from this web page, can also be used, and must besubmitted by 7 Aprilth, 2020 to the addresses provided and using the procedures specified in the form itself.
The proxy for the Designated Proxy Holder must contain the voting instructions for all, or some of, the proposals on the Agenda. Within the abovementioned deadline, the proxy and the voting instructions may also be revoked according to the manners indicated above. The proxy is only valid for the proposals for which voting instructions have been provided.
Notwithstanding the need for a proxy to be assigned to the Designated Representative, sub-delegations may be conferred upon the latter, by any delegates, pursuant to Article 135-novies of the TUF, also as an exception to the provisions of Article 135-undecies, paragraph 4, of the TUF. For the purpose of any intermediate proxies, the proxy form issued by authorised intermediaries at the request of the person concerned or the proxy form available on the Company's website can still be used.
On the basis of the provisions of Article 127 ter of the Legislative Decree no. 58/98, all those with voting rights may ask questions on the items on the Agenda of the UniCredit S.p.A. Shareholders' Meeting according to the terms and time-limits given in the call notice.
Questions may be sent by post to the registered office of UniCredit S.p.A. in Piazza Gae Aulenti, 3 - Tower A - 20154 Milan (with the express indication: "To the attention of the Group Corporate Affairs Department") or via e-mail to corporate.law@pec.unicredit.eu
Following the entry into force of the "Cura Italia" Decree Law ("Decree") which introduced some exceptional provisions related to the COVID-19 emergency applicable to the Shareholders' Meetings of the listed companies, UniCredit S.p.A. has decided, in order to minimise the risks connected with the ongoing health emergency, to make use of the right - established by the article 106 of the Decree - to provide that the shareholders' attendance at the meeting shall be made exclusively through the Company-Designated Proxy Holder provided for by article 135-undecies of the Consolidated Finance Act ("TUF").
In such special circumstances and in order to allow shareholders to be able to cast their vote taking into account the feedback provided by the Company to any questions raised prior to the Shareholders' meeting, it should be noted that the questions, reaching the Company as above, no later than April 2nd, 2020, and that will turn out pertaining to the matters on the Agenda - provided it is previously ascertained that all the necessary requisites, including the checking of the right to ask questions, are satisfied - will be given an answer within April 7th, 2020, by publishing on the UniCredit S.p.A. website.
Pre-Shareholders' Meeting Q&A will be attached to the Shareholders' Meeting minutes, which will be published within the terms according to Law.
Notice of call
- PDF | Integration and Amendment of the Notice of Call (104.34kb)
- PDF | Integration and Amendment of the Excerpt (82.01kb)
- PDF | Press Release of 20 March 2020 (258.16kb)
- PDF | Press Release of 29 March 2020 (94.31kb)
- PDF | Notice (135.72kb)
- PDF | Excerpt (118.21kb)
Shareholders' Meeting Documentation
ORDINARY PART
1. Approval of the 2019 financial statements
2. Allocation of the result of the year 2019
3. Distribution of a dividend from profit reserves
On 29 March 2020 the Board of Directors of UniCredit, following the ECB's recommendation on 27 March 2020, resolved to withdraw the proposed resolution regarding this item of the Agenda of the Shareholders Meeting convened on 9 April 2020
4. Elimination of so-called "negative reserves" for components not subject to change by means of their definitive coverage
5. Integration of the Board of Directors, once the number of Board members has been set
6. Appointment of the external auditor for the years 2022-2030 and determination of fees
7. 2020 Group Incentive System
8. 2020 Group Remuneration Policy
9. Remuneration Report
10. 2020-2023 Long-Term Incentive Plan (2020-2023 LTI Plan)
11. Authorisation to purchase treasury shares. Consequent and inherent resolutions
On 29 March 2020 the Board of Directors of UniCredit, following the ECB's recommendation on 27 March 2020, resolved to withdraw the proposed resolution regarding this item of the Agenda of the Shareholders Meeting convened on 9 April 2020
EXTRAORDINARY PART
1. Delegation to the Board of Directors to carry out a free capital increase for a maximum amount of EUR 18,779,138 in order to complete the execution of the 2019 Group Incentive System and consequent amendments to the Articles of Association
2. Delegation to the Board of Directors to carry out a free capital increase for a maximum amount of EUR 123,146,209 in order to execute the 2020 Group Incentive System and consequent amendments to the Articles of Association
3. Amendments to clause 6 of the Articles of Association
4. Cancellation of treasury shares with no reduction of share capital; consequent amendment to clause 5 of the Article of Association. Consequent and inherent resolutions
On 29 March 2020 the Board of Directors of UniCredit, following the ECB's recommendation on 27 March 2020, resolved to withdraw the proposed resolution regarding this item of the Agenda of the Shareholders Meeting convened on 9 April 2020
Other documents
- PDF | 2020 Group Remuneration Policy and Report Key Highlights (279.78kb)
- PDF | Summary Report of the Votes (229.41kb)
- PDF | Shareholders' Meeting Minutes (2.37mb)
Press releases
- 06.02.2020 Board of Directors' Resolution
- 09.03.2020 Notice of call
- 09.03.2020 Shareholders' Meeting Documentation
- 18.03.2020 Notice of filing of the 2019 Annual Financial Report
- 20.03.2020 Shareholders' Meeting confirmed
- 20.03.2020 Integration and amendment of the notice of call
- 20.03.2020 Procedure for submitting proposals by shareholders
- 29.03.2020 UniCredit postpones resolutions following ECB recommendation
- 09.04.2020 Shareholders' Meeting approves the 2019 Financial Statements
- 20.04.2020 Amendment of Articles of Association
- 24.04.2020 Notice of filing of the Minutes of the Shareholders' Meeting
- 29.07.2020 UniCredit to comply with ECB payout recommendation