Articles of association
Articles of association for engcon AB, registration number 556647-1727, adopted at the annual general meeting on 2 May 2024.
§ 1 Company name
The name of the company is engcon AB. The company is a public company (publ).
§ 2 Registered office
The registered office of the company’s board of directors shall be in Strömsund municipality, Jämtland County.
§ 3 Object of the business
The company shall, directly or indirectly through other wholly or partly owned companies – conduct development, production and/or sale of equipment and services to the construction industry; provide group-wide services and management, financing of wholly and partly owned companies; own and manage real estate and movable property, and/or engage in other related activities. However, the company shall not conduct such activities as referred to in the Act 2004:297 on banking and financing operations.
§ 4 Share capital
The minimum share capital shall be SEK 21,250,320 and the maximum share capital shall SEK 85,001,280.
§ 5 Number of shares
The minimum number of shares shall be 151,788,000 and the maximum number of shares shall be 607,152,000.
Shares may be issued in two classes designated as A shares and B shares.
The number of votes for each A-share shall be ten (10), and for each B-share shall be one (1).
A-shares and B-shares may be issued in an amount for each class of shares equivalent to not more than 100 per cent of the share capital.
If the company resolves on an issue of new A shares and B shares through a cash issue (with or without the right of payment by set-off), holders of A shares and B shares shall have a preferential right to subscribe for new shares of the same share class in relation to the number of shares of the same share class since before held by the holder (primary preferential right). Shares that have not been subscribed for with primary preferential rights shall be offered to them that hold shares since before (subsidiary preferential rights). If shares thus offered are not sufficient for the subscription that takes place with subsidiary preferential rights, the shares of each class shall be distributed among the subscribers in proportion to the number of shares they hold since before in the same share class and, insofar as this could not be done, by lottery.
If the company decides on a cash issue (with or without the right of a payment by set-off) of only A shares or B shares, shall all shareholders of these share classes, regardless of whether their shares are A shares or B shares, have the preferential right to subscribe for new shares in proportion to the number of shares they previously own.
If the company resolves to issue warrants or convertibles through a cash issue (with or without the right of payment by set-off), the shareholders of A shares and B shares have a preferential right to subscribe for warrants as if the issue applied to the shares that may be newly subscribed due to the option right and preferential right to subscribe for convertibles as if the issue applied to the shares to which the convertibles may be converted to.
What has been said above shall not entail any restriction on the possibility to resolve on a cash, set-off or in-kind issue regarding shares, warrants or convertibles with deviation from the shareholders’ preferential rights.
In the event of an increase in the share capital through a bonus issue, new shares shall be issued for each share class in relation to the number of shares of the same type that already exist. In this case, old shares of a certain class of shares shall carry the right to new shares of the same class of shares.
What has now been said shall not entail any restriction on the possibility of issuing shares of a new class through a bonus issue, following a necessary change in the articles of association.
§ 6 Conversion of shares
At the request of a holder of A shares, A shares shall be converted into B shares. Requests for conversion shall be made in writing to the company’s board of directors. It shall be stated how many A shares are to be converted into B shares. The conversion shall be reported by the company for registration to the Swedish Companies Registration Office without delay and is executed when registration has taken place and is entered in the securities depository register.
§ 7 Board of directors
The board of directors elected by the general meeting shall consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of ten (10) directors, and no alternate members.
§ 8 Auditors
The company shall appoint minimum of one (1) and maximum of two (2) auditors, with not more than two (2) alternate auditors. As auditor and, when applicable, alternate shall be elected an authorized public accountant or a registered public accounting firm.
An auditor shall be appointed for the time period until the end of the annual general meeting that will be held during the first, second, third or fourth financial year after the election.
§ 9 Notice of general meeting
Notice of a general meeting shall be given through advertisement in the Swedish Official Gazette (Sw: Post- och Inrikes Tidningar) and by keeping the notice available on the company´s website. Information that notice of a general meeting has been given shall be advertised in Dagens Industri. Should the nationwide distribution of Dagens Industri be discontinued, the advert shall be published in Svenska Dagbladet instead. The notice to attend shall be issued within such time stipulated by the Swedish Companies Act (2005:551).
§ 10 Right to participate in the general meeting
In order to have the right to participate in the general meeting, the shareholder shall notify the company of its participation not later than the date set forth in the notice of the general meeting. Such day shall not be a Sunday, other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer’s Eve, Christmas’ Eve or New Year’s Eve and shall not be earlier than on the fifth weekday before the general meeting.
At a general meeting, a shareholder may bring one or two assistants, however only if the shareholder has notified the company of the number of assistants in the manner stated in the previous paragraph.
§ 11 Location of the general meeting
The shareholders’ meeting may be held, besides where the company has its registered head office, in the municipality of Östersund, Sundsvall or Stockholm, or digitally.
The board of directors appoints a person that opens the general meeting and presides over the proceedings until a chairperson of the meeting is elected.
§ 12 Matters at the annual general meeting
The following matters shall be addressed at the annual general meeting:
– Election of chair of the general meeting;
– Preparation and approval of the voting list;
– Election of one or two persons to verify the minutes;
– Determination as to whether the general meeting has been duly convened;
– Approval of the agenda;
– Presentation of the annual report and the auditor’s report and, where applicable, the consolidated financial statements and the auditor’s report for the group;
– Resolutions
a. regarding the adoption of the income statement and balance sheet and, where applicable, the consolidated income statement and the consolidated balance sheet;
b. regarding disposition of the company’s profit or loss according to the adopted balance sheet;
c. regarding discharge of liability for the members of the board of directors and the CEO;
– Determination of the number of members of the board of directors and auditors and, where applicable, the number of deputy auditors;
– Determination of the fees to be paid to the members of the board of directors and the auditors and, where applicable, the deputy auditors;
– Election of members of the board of directors and auditors and, if applicable, deputy auditors;
– Other business to be addressed by the general meeting in accordance with the Swedish Companies Act or the articles of association.
§ 13 Collection of powers of attorney, voting by post and presence of third parties at general meeting
The board of directors may collect power of attorneys pursuant to the procedure set forth in Chapter 7, Section 4, Subsection 2 of the Swedish Companies Act.
The board of directors has the right prior to a general meeting to decide that shareholders shall be entitled to exercise their voting rights by post prior the general meeting pursuant to the procedure stated in Chapter 7, Section 4 a of the Swedish Companies Act.
The board of directors may resolve that persons not being shareholders in the company shall, on the conditions stipulated by the board of directors, be allowed to attend or otherwise follow the proceedings at a general meeting.
§ 14 Financial year
The company’s financial year shall be 1 January – 31 December.
§ 15 Central securities depository provision
The company’s shares shall be registered in a central securities depository register pursuant to the Swedish Central Securities Depositories and Financial Instruments Accounting Act (SFS 1998:1479) (Sw. lagen (1998:1479) om värdepapperscentraler och kontoföring av finansiella instrument).
§ 16 Post-transfer acquisition rights
If an A share has been transferred to another owner (shareholder or otherwise), by means of purchase, exchange, gift, separation of joint property, company distribution, merger, demerger or other transfer of title, with exception for inheritance, will or gift to a direct heir, such share shall immediately be offered to the holders of A shares for redemption.
As soon as the Central Securities Depository has informed the board of directors of the transfer of title, the board of directors shall immediately inform the acquirer of its obligation to offer the shares for redemption by written notification to the board of directors. Such notification shall contain information on the consideration paid for the shares and the acquirer’s conditions for redemption. The acquirer shall hereby evidence his or her acquisition of the shares. Immediately upon receiving a notification of transfer of title, the board of directors shall enter this into a special book with details on the date of notification, as set forth in the Companies Act. The board of directors shall at the same time notify every person entitled to redemption whose postal address is known to the company, in writing, of the transfer of title to the shares and inform that claims for redemption shall be submitted to the board of directors within two (2) months from the acquirer’s notification of the transfer of title. Claims for redemption submitted within the stipulated time period shall be entered into a special book with details on the date of the claim for redemption, as set forth in the Swedish Companies Act.
The post-transfer acquisition right may not be exercised for a lesser number of shares than those shares covered by the post-transfer acquisition offer. Where several parties entitled to purchase the shares provide notice to purchase more shares than the shares covered by the post-transfer acquisition rights, the shares shall as far as possible be distributed between the parties entitled to purchase the shares in proportion to the number of A shares in the company which they own, while the remaining shares shall be distributed between them by board of directors by lot or, if any person entitled to purchase the shares requests before the lot is executed by the board, by notarius publicus by lot.
If no agreement has been reached on another purchase price, the purchase price per share shall correspond to the compensation paid by the acquirer upon the transfer of the shares concerned to the acquirer. In the event that such remuneration exceeds the price that can be anticipated in a conjunction with a sale under normal circumstances (whereby such price shall be determined with regard to the circumstances at the time when the transfer took place to the acquirer), the purchase price per share shall be determined at such price that can be expected in such sales under normal circumstances. If an agreement regarding the purchase price cannot be reached, the party entitled to purchase the shares may initiate arbitration proceedings in accordance with the below.
Any dispute arising out of redemption between the acquirer and the person requesting redemption of the shares shall be finally settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, whereby the arbitral tribunal shall be composed of a sole arbitrator. Such proceeding shall be initiate within two months from the date on which the due notice to exercise the post-transfer acquisition rights was made. The seat of arbitration shall be Stockholm, Sweden, and the language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be Swedish. Such dispute shall be governed only by the law of Sweden, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof that would imply the application of the laws of other jurisdictions. All requests for arbitration, which by reason of the same transfer of shares have been submitted to the institute within the above stated time, shall be dealt with as one single arbitration procedure. Anyone who initiates proceedings under this paragraph shall immediately notify this to the company’s board of directors. Such notice shall immediately be entered into a special book with the date of notice.
The price for the shares shall be paid within one month from the date on which the purchase price was determined, regardless of whether agreed upon or the purchase price being determined by an arbitration. If, within the stipulated time, no person entitled to redemption would submit a claim for redemption, or if the redemption price would not be paid within the stipulated time, the person who offered the share for redemption shall be entitled to be registered as holder of the share.