Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
EANS-General Meeting: Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
Invitation to the General Meeting according to art. 107 para. 3 Companies Act
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02.04.2020
SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft
Ternitz
Commercial Register no. FN 102999 w, ISIN AT0000946652
Information on the organizational and technical requirements for attending the
Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 23 April 2020 at 10:00 a.m. to be held as a
virtual Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT
Aktiengesellschaft to be held on Thursday, 23 April 2020 at 10:00 a.m. was
convened by announcement in the official gazette "Amtsblatt zur Wiener Zeitung"
of 26 March 2020 and by euro adhoc of the same date.
The health of shareholders attending the Annual General Meeting is a top
priority for the Executive Board. For this reason, the Annual General Meeting
scheduled for 23 April 2020 in Ternitz unfortunately cannot be held as an
attendance meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic. To protect shareholders and
other participants, the Executive Board has decided to apply the new legal
provision regulating the holding of an annual general meeting merely online. In
the opinion of the Executive Board, this allows to take account of both the
interests of the Company and the interests of the participants in the best
possible manner.
Annual General Meeting to be held virtually
The Annual General Meeting of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT
Aktiengesellschaft on 23 April 2020 will be held as a "virtual annual general
meeting" as provided for by the statutory regulations under COVID-19-GesG and/or
COVID-19-GesV as amended.
This means that shareholders cannot be physically present at the General Meeting
of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT Aktiengesellschaft on 23 April 2020.
Independent proxies
At the virtual Annual General Meeting of SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIPMENT
Aktiengesellschaft on 23 April 2020, motions can be submitted, votes can be
cast, and objections can be raised only by one of the independent proxies listed
below.
(i) Attorney-at-law Mag. Ewald Oberhammer, c/o Oberhammer Rechtsanwälte GmbH,
Karlsplatz 3/1, 1010 Vienna
It is possible to directly contact attorney-at-law Mag. Ewald Oberhammer by
telephone on +43 1 5033000, telefax on +43 1 5033000 33, or e-mail
stimmrechtsvertreter@oberhammer.co.at [stimmrechtsvertreter@oberhammer.co.at].
(ii) Dr. Wilhelm G. Rasinger, c/o Interessenverband für Anleger (IVA)
(Association for Investors), Feldmühlgasse 22, 1130 Vienna
It is possible to directly contact Dr. Wilhelm G. Rasinger by telephone on +43
(0) 676 4196451, telefax on +43 1 8763343-39, or e-mail
wilhelm.rasinger@iva.or.at [wilhelm.rasinger@iva.or.at].
(iii) Attorney-at-law Dr. Christian Temmel, MBA, c/o DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach
Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Schottenring 14, 1010 Vienna
It is possible to directly contact attorney-at-law Dr. Christian Temmel, MBA, by
telephone on +43 1 531781505, telefax on +43 1 5335252, or e-mail
christian.temmel@dlapiper.com [christian.temmel@dlapiper.com].
(iv) Attorney-at-law Dr. Christoph Nauer, LL.M., c/o bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte
GmbH, ARES-Tower, Donau-City-Straße 11, 1220 Vienna
It is possible to directly contact attorney-at-law Dr. Christoph Nauer, LL.M.,
by telephone on +43 2236 893377, telefax on +43 2236 893377-40, or e-mail
proxy@bpv-huegel.com [proxy@bpv-huegel.com].
It is recommended to contact your designated proxy in good time if you wish to
instruct the designated proxy to submit motions, cast votes and raise
objections.
A separate proxy form is available on the Company's website at www.sbo.at/
hauptversammlung [http://www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung]. Please read this proxy
form carefully and also note the updated ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SHAREHOLDERS'
RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 109, 110, 118 and 119 Austrian Stock Corporation Act
(AktG) and the INFORMATION ON DATA PROTECTION FOR SHAREHOLDERS, which are
available on the Internet at www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung [http://www.sbo.at/
hauptversammlung].
Questions/Right to information of shareholders
Shareholders are requested to submit in writing all questions to the Executive
Board by simple e-mail to vorstand@sbo.co.at in good time to arrive at the
Company no later than on the second day before the Annual General Meeting, that
is Tuesday, 21 April 2020.
In this way, you enable the Executive Board to prepare and answer the questions
you wish to ask at the Annual General Meeting as accurately as possible.
Please use the question form, which is available on the Company's website at
www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung [http://www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung].
We would like to point out expressly that the right to information pursuant to
Section 118 AktG may also be exercised by the shareholders themselves during the
virtual Annual General Meeting in accordance with the provisions set out in this
information, as detailed below.
Transmission of the Annual General Meeting on the Internet
The entire Annual General Meeting will be broadcast on the Internet.
All shareholders of the Company can follow the Annual General Meeting on 23
April 2020 live on the Internet at www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung [http://
www.sbo.at/hauptversammlung] from around 10:00 a.m. on.
Procedure for the conduct of the virtual Annual General Meeting
As the Annual General Meeting is transmitted on the Internet, all shareholders
who wish to do so will have the opportunity to be acoustically and visually
connected to watch the Annual General Meeting in real time and to listen to the
presentation of the Executive Board and the answers to the questions of the
shareholders.
Even during the Annual General Meeting, shareholders will have the opportunity
to electronically submit in writing their questions and/or their motions to the
Company within a certain time window after the Annual General Meeting has been
opened. Those questions and/or motions will be read out by the Chairman or a
member of the Executive Board at the Annual General Meeting. To do so, please
send a simple e-mail to the e-mail address vorstand@sbo.co.at.
This will give shareholders the opportunity to react to developments at the
Annual General Meeting themselves, for example by asking an additional question
or submitting an alternative resolution proposal.
The Chairman of the Annual General Meeting will structure the conduct of the
Annual General Meeting in terms of timing, as would be the case with an
attendance Annual General Meeting, and will in particular announce the point in
time up to which questions or motions can be submitted.
Moreover, shareholders will also have the opportunity to change their
instructions, in particular regarding voting but also raising objections, to the
respective proxy also during the Annual General Meeting up to a certain point in
time.
This point in time will also be determined by the Chairman during the Annual
General Meeting.
Please note that it may be necessary to interrupt the virtual Annual General
Meeting for a short time in order to process the instructions of shareholders to
the proxies received during the Annual General Meeting.
Within the framework of the above-mentioned communication channels and
participation options, the Executive Management endeavors to safeguard that
shareholders will be provided with the highest possible quality of decision-
making.
Ternitz, on 2 April 2020. The Executive Board
Further inquiry note:
Andreas Böcskör, Head of Investor Relations
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
A-2630 Ternitz, Hauptstraße 2
Phone: +43 2630 315 ext 252, fax ext 101
E-Mail: a.boecskoer@sbo.co.at
Ildiko Füredi-Kolarik
Metrum Communications GmbH
Tel: +43 1 504 69 87 ext 351
E-Mail: i.fueredi@metrum.at
end of announcement euro adhoc
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------issuer: Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG
Hauptstrasse 2
A-2630 Ternitz
phone: 02630/315110
FAX: 02630/315101
mail: sboe@sbo.co.at
WWW: http://www.sbo.at
ISIN: AT0000946652
indexes: WBI, ATX
stockmarkets: Wien
language: English
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