Societe Generale_ Combined General Meeting and Board of Directors dated 22 May 2024
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Societe Generale_ Combined General Meeting and Board of Directors
dated 22 May 2024
COMBINED GENERAL MEETING AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DATED 22 MAY
2024
Press release
Paris, 22 May 2024
Combined General Meeting
The General Meeting of shareholders of Societe
Generale was held on 22 May 2024 at Maison de la Mutualité - 24 rue
Saint-Victor - 75005 Paris and was chaired by Mr. Lorenzo Bini
Smaghi.
Quorum was established at 55.61% (vs 53.45% in
2023):
- 631 shareholders participated by
attending the General Meeting in person at the place where it was
held on 22 May 2024;
- 898 shareholders were represented
at the General Meeting by a person other than the Chairman;
- 11 113 shareholders voted
online;
- 2 186 shareholders voted by
post;
- 10 044 shareholders, including 7
650online, representing 1.10% of the share capital, gave proxy to
the Chairman;
- A total of 24 872 shareholders were
present or represented and thus participated in the vote.
The agenda item, with no vote, was an
opportunity to present and discuss with shareholders the Group's
climate strategy and social and environmental responsibility.
In addition, 13 shareholders sent 72 written
questions prior to the General Meeting. The answers were made
public before the General Meeting on the institutional website.
All the resolutions put forward by the Board of
Directors were adopted, in particular:
- The 2023 annual company accounts
and annual consolidated accounts;
- The dividend per share was set at EUR 0.90. It shall traded
ex-dividend on 27 May 2024 and paid from 29 May 2024;
- The renewal of one director for 4
years: Mrs Annette Messemer
- The compensation policy for the
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive
Officers and the Directors;
- The components composing the total
compensation and the benefits of any kind paid or awarded for the
2023 financial year to the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer
and the Deputy Chief Executive Officers;
- A favorable opinion was issued on
the remuneration paid in 2023 to regulated persons;
- The appointment of KPMG S.A et PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit as
Statutory Auditors in charge of the mission of certifying the
accounts and the mission of certifying sustainability
information;
- The authorisation granted to the Board of Directors to purchase
ordinary shares of the Company was renewed for 18 months up to 10%
of the share capital;
- Authorisations for capital increases, including the
authorisation to issue shares to employees under a company or group
savings plan, as well as the authorisation to grant performance
shares issued or to be issued, for 26 months;
- The amendments to the By-laws relating to the terms and
conditions for the election of directors representing employees
elected by employees and for the election of the director
representing shareholder employees appointed by the Ordinary
General Meeting of shareholders.
The detailed voting result is available this day
on the Company's website in the item "Annual General Meeting".
Board of Directors
Following the renewal of Mrs Annette Messemer's director's term
of office, the Board of Directors is still composed of one
non-voting director and 15 directors, including (i) 2 directors
re-elected by the employees in March 2024 and (ii) 1 director
representing employee shareholders appointed by the General
Meeting.
In accordance with the by-laws, two employee directors have been
re-elected and will assume their functions for a period of 4 years
as from the General Meeting.
Accordingly, the Board of Directors remains composed as
follows:
- Mr. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi,
Chairman;
- Mr. Slawomir Krupa, Director;
- Mr. William Connelly,
Director ;
- Mr. Jérôme Contamine,
Director;
- Mrs. Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier,
Director ;
- Mrs. Diane Côté, Director;
- Mrs. Ulrika Ekman, Director;
- Mrs. France Houssaye, Director
elected by employees;
- Mrs. Annette Messemer,
Director ;
- Mr. Henri Poupart-Lafarge,
Director;
- Mr Johan Praud, Director elected by
employees;
- Mrs. Lubomira Rochet,
Director;
- Mr. Benoît de Ruffray,
Director ;
- Mrs. Alexandra Schaapveld,
Director;
- Mr. Sébastien Wetter, Director
representing employees shareholders.
- Mr. Jean-Bernard Lévy, Non-voting
Director (“censeur”).
The Board of Directors remains made up of 50%
women and more than 90% (11/12) independent directors if we exclude
from the calculations the three directors representing the
employees in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article L. 225-23 of
the Commercial Code, paragraph 2 of Article L. 225-27 of the
Commercial Code and the AFEP-MEDEF code.
The Board of Directors held after the General
Meeting has decided that, as of 22 May 2024, the Board committees
will be composed as follows:
- Audit and Internal Control
Committee: Mrs. Alexandra Schaapveld (chairwoman),
Mr. Jérôme Contamine, Mrs. Diane Côté, Mrs. Ulrika Ekman and Mr.
Sébastien Wetter;
- Risk Committee:
Mr. William Connelly (chairman), Mrs. Béatrice Cossa Dumurgier,
Mrs. Diane Côté, Mrs. Ulrika Ekman, Mrs. Annette Messemer and Mrs.
Alexandra Schaapveld ;
- Compensation
Committee: Mr. Jérôme Contamine (chairman), Mr. Benoit de
Ruffray, Mrs. France Houssaye and Mrs. Annette Messemer;
- Nomination and Corporate
Governance Committee: Mr. Henri Poupart-Lafarge
(chairman), Mr. William Connelly, Mr. Benoit de Ruffray and Mrs.
Lubomira Rochet.
Biographies
Mme Annette Messemer, who has
German nationality, holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the
University of Bonn (Germany), a Master in International Economics
from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (US) and a degree from
SciencesPo Paris. She began her career in investment banking at JP
Morgan in New York in 1994 and subsequently worked in Frankfurt and
London. She left JP Morgan as Senior Banker in 2006 to join Merrill
Lynch as member of the German subsidiary’s Executive Committee. In
2010, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of WestLB by the
German Ministry of Finance before joining Commerzbank in 2013,
where she was a member of the Group’s Executive Committee and Head
of the Corporate and Institutional Clients department until June
2018.Mrs. France Houssaye, Head of External
Business Opportunities, Regional Commercial Department, Rouen
(Normandy), Societe Generale employee since 1989.
Mr. Johan Praud, Logistics
manager, Societe Generale employee since 2005
The regulatory declarations on the absence of
conflicts of interest and the absence of convictions mentioned on
page 166 of the Universal Registration Document filed by Societe
Generale on 11 March 2024 with the French market authority (AMF)
under number D.24-0094, relating notably to the three directors
whose terms of office are renewed with effect from the General
Meeting of 22 May 2024, remain valid.
Press contacts:Jean-Baptiste
Froville_+33 1 58 98 68 00_ jean-baptiste.froville@socgen.comFanny
Rouby_+33 1 57 29 11 12_ fanny.rouby@socgen.com
Societe Generale
Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank
with more than 126,000 employees serving about 25 million clients
in 65 countries across the world. We have been supporting the
development of our economies for 160 years, providing our
corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array
of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our long-lasting
and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge
expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading
franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential
objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our
stakeholders.The Group runs three complementary sets of businesses,
embedding ESG offerings for all its clients:
- French
Retail, Private Banking and Insurance, with leading retail
bank SG and insurance franchise, premium private banking services,
and the leading digital bank BoursoBank.
- Global
Banking and Investor Solutions, a top tier wholesale bank
offering tailored-made solutions with distinctive global leadership
in equity derivatives, structured finance and ESG.
-
International Retail, Mobility & Leasing
Services, comprising well-established universal banks
(in Czech Republic, Romania and several African countries), Ayvens
(the new ALD I LeasePlan brand), a global player in sustainable
mobility, as well as specialized financing activities.
Committed to building together with its clients
a better and sustainable future, Societe Generale aims to be a
leading partner in the environmental transition and sustainability
overall. The Group is included in the principal socially
responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global
and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity
and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX
Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index
(World and Europe).
For more information, you can follow us on
Twitter/X @societegenerale or visit our website
societegenerale.com.
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