Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting 2016

2016 Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

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Siemens Gamesa held an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on October 25, 2016, in Zamudio (Vizcaya) in relation to the execution of the merger agreement between Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa. Here you find all relevant documentation.
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2016 Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
Documentation

Conduct of the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting

Notice to call the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting

Merger notice (in Spanish)

Significant event of agreements of the Board of Directors of Gamesa about the call of the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting

Significant event of call

Full text of the resolutions for the items on the agenda of the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting

Framework report by Gamesa’s Board of Directors on the proposal of appointment and ratification and re-election of directors included in points Four two to Four eight and Five of the agenda of the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting, where there are also included the individual reports and the professional and biographic profile and other mandatory information of each of the members of the board whose appointment is proposed under the above referred points of the agenda

Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on the appointment of Ms. Rosa María García García as a non-executive proprietary director


Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on the appointment of Ms. Mariel von Schumann as a non-executive proprietary director

Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on the appointment of Ms. Lisa Davis as a non-executive proprietary director


Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on the appointment of Mr. Klaus Helmrich as a non-executive proprietary director

Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on the appointment of Mr. Ralf Thomas as a non-executive proprietary director

Report by the Appointments Committee of Gamesa on ratification of the appointment by cooption and re-election of Mr. Gerardo Codes Calatrava as a non-executive proprietary director

Proposal by the Appointments Committee on (a) the appointment of Mr Klaus Rosenfeld as a non-executive independent director; and (b) the appointment of Ms Swantje Conrad as a non-executive independent director

Shareholder's Guide

Model-form of attendance, proxy, and distance voting card

Frequently asked questions

Regulations of the Electronic Shareholders' Forum

Number of shares and voting rights at the date of the call notice for the Extraordinary General Shareholder's Meeting


Common Terms of Merger Gamesa / Siemens Wind

Report by Gamesa’s Board of Directors on the common terms of merger, including the justification of the proposals of modification of the Bylaws resulting from the merger

Report by the sole director of Siemens Wind Power Parent on the common terms of merger

Report on the common terms of merger issued by Deloitte, S.L., as the independent expert appointed by the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia


Individual annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2015, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors


Consolidated annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2015, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors


Individual annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2014, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors

Consolidated annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2014, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors


Individual annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2013, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors 

Consolidated annual financial statements and management report of Gamesa for the financial year ending on 31 December 2013, together with the corresponding report by the independent auditors

Annual financial statements and management report of Siemens Wind Power Parent for the financial year ending 31 December 2015

Merger balance sheet of Gamesa corresponding to the last annual balance sheet for the financial year closed on 31 December 2015, with the corresponding auditor's report

Merger balance sheet of Siemens Wind Power Parent corresponding to the last annual balance sheet for the financial year closed on 31 December 2015, with the corresponding auditor's reports (auditor’s report that is not mandatory)

Current version of the Bylaws of Gamesa

Current version of the Regulations of the Shareholder's General Meeting of Gamesa

Current version of the Regulations of the Board of Directors of Gamesa

Current version of the Audit and Compliance Committee Regulations

Current version of the Appointments Committee Regulations

Current version of the Remunerations Committee Regulations

Current version of the Bylaws of Siemens Wind Power Parent

Full text of the Bylaws of Gamesa following the Merger, highlighting the proposed modifications

Identity of the directors of Gamesa and Siemens Wind Power Parent, and the date on which they took up their positions

Identities of the members of the Board of Directors of Gamesa who will be proposed following the merger

Pro-forma consolidated financial information of Siemens Wind Power Parent as of 31 December 2015 (which includes the audited combined statement of financial position of the Siemens Wind Power Business as of that date), prepared for information purposes, together with the report on its limited review issued by Ernst & Young

Agreement entered into by Iberdrola, S.A., Iberdrola Participaciones, S.A. (Sociedad Unipersonal) and Siemens AG on 17 June 2016, filed with the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and Gamesa on that date for the purposes of Article 531.1 of the Capital Companies Act, which is deposited with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia and contains private shareholders’ agreements 

Agenda
One:

Approval of the merger by absorption of Siemens Wind Holdco, Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada (Sociedad Unipersonal) (“Siemens Wind Power Parent”), as absorbed company, by Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, Sociedad Anónima (“Gamesa” or the “Company”), as the absorbing company, with the extinction of the absorbed company and the en bloc transfer of all of its assets and liabilities, by universal succession, to the absorbing company, being expressly established that the exchange will be covered with newly-issued shares in Gamesa, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the common draft terms of merger (proyecto común de fusion) executed by the Board of Directors of Gamesa and the sole director of Siemens Wind Power Parent on 27 June 2016, and posted on the website of Gamesa and deposited with the Commercial Registry of Barcelona by the sole director of Siemens Wind Power Parent (the “Merger” and the “Common Terms of Merger”, respectively), together with, as the case may be, any information on any significant changes to the assets or liabilities of the companies involved in the Merger between the date of the Common Terms of Merger and the date of the General Shareholder's Meeting that will resolve on the Merger. (Agreement's proposal)

To this end:

1.1. Approval of the individual balance sheet of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2015 and approved by the General Shareholder's Meeting held on second call on 22 June 2016, as the Merger balance sheet.

1.2. Approval of the Common Terms of Merger by absorption of Siemens Wind Power Parent by the Company signed by the Board of Directors of the Company and the sole director of Siemens Wind Power Parent on 27 June 2016.

1.3. Approval of the resolutions of the Merger (acuerdo de fusión) by absorption of Siemens Wind Power Parent by Gamesa, with the dissolution without liquidation of the former and the transfer en bloc of its assets and liabilities to the latter, which shall acquire them by universal succession, being expressly established that the exchange will be covered with the delivery of the newly-issued Gamesa shares under the terms and conditions of the Common Terms of Merger, all of them be subject to the terms and conditions established on the Common Terms of Merger.

1.4. Approval of a capital increase by the Company of a nominal amount of EUR 68,318,681.15, through the issuance of 401,874,595 new shares with a nominal value of EUR 0.17 each, of the same and single class and series as those currently in circulation, to cover the exchange of the Merger, with an amendment of Article 7 of the Bylaws and the delegation to the Board of Directors to carry out the capital increase.

1.5. Approval of the request for admission to trading of the new shares issued to cover the exchange on the stock markets of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao through the Automated Quotation System (Sistema de Interconexión Bursátil) (Continuous Market).

1.6. Option in relation to the tax neutrality regime.

1.7. Delegation of powers with regard to the Merger resolutions, with express powers of substitution.

Two:

Amendment to the Company’s Bylaws:

2.1. Amendment of Articles 2.2, 35.2, 37.2 and 37.4 of the Bylaws, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

2.2. Approval of the restated text of the Company’s Bylaws, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.


Three:
Approval of the distribution of an extraordinary cash dividend, charged to the share premium and other distributable reserves, amounting to a gross maximum of EUR 3.5976 per share with right to receive it (and therefore a maximum aggregate gross amount of EUR 1,004,697,388.11), conditional on registration of the Merger deed with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia. Reduction of the amount of the extraordinary merger dividend by the amount resulting from the ordinary dividends approved or effectively distributed by the Company to its shareholders before the registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia. (Agreement's proposal)
Four:

Approval of setting the number of directors on the Board of Directors at thirteen (13) and of the appointment of new members of the Company's Board of Directors resulting from the Merger, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia: (Agreement's proposal)

4.1. Setting the number of directors on the Board of Directors at thirteen (13), conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.2. Appointment of Ms Rosa María García García as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.3. Appointment of Ms Mariel von Schumann as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.4. Appointment of Ms Lisa Davis as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.5. Appointment of Mr Klaus Helmrich as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.6. Appointment of Mr Ralf Thomas as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.7. Appointment of Mr Klaus Rosenfeld as a non-executive independent director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

4.8. Appointment of Ms Swantje Conrad as a non-executive independent director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years, conditional on registration of the public deed of Merger with the Commercial Registry of Bizkaia.

Five:
Ratification of the appointment by cooption and re-election of Mr Gerardo Codes Calatrava as a non-executive proprietary director of the Company for the Bylaw-mandated period of four years.
Six:
Delegation of powers of attorney for the formalisation, execution and raising into public status the resolutions adopted by the Extraordinary Shareholder's General Meeting, and for their interpretation, correction, completion or development until such time as they are filed. (Agreement's proposal)

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