LANXESS Annual Stockholders' Meeting
Invitation and Agenda
We hereby give notice of the Annual Stockholders' Meeting of LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft, seated in Cologne to be held on Thursday, August 27, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. CEST.
With the consent of the Company’s Supervisory Board, the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting will take place as a virtual Annual Stockholders’ Meeting without the physical presence of the Stockholders or their authorized representatives on the basis of the German Act to Mitigate the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic under Civil, Insolvency and Criminal Procedure Law of March 27, 2020 (COVID-19 Act).
The location of the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting within the meaning of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) will be the business premises at the Company’s registered office at Kennedyplatz 1, 50569 Cologne. The Stockholders and their authorized representatives (excluding company-nominated proxies) have no right and no option to physically attend at the location of the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting. The entire Annual Stockholders’ Meeting will be broadcast for registered Stockholders or their authorized representatives in a live video and audio stream in the InvestorPortal on the Company’s website at asm.lanxess.com. Stockholders can exercise their voting rights exclusively by way of postal vote or by granting authorization to the proxies nominated by the Company. The Stockholders are asked to pay particular attention to the “Conduct of the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting as a virtual Annual Stockholders’ Meeting” (see section II.1).
I. Agenda
- 1. Presentation of the adopted annual financial statement and the approved consolidated financial statement for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, together with the combined management report for LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft and for the Group, including the explanatory report on the information pursuant to Section 289a Para. 1 as well as Section 315a Para. 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), and the report of the Supervisory Board for the fiscal year 2019
- 2. Adoption of a resolution regarding the appropriation of the balance sheet profits
- 3. Adoption of a resolution on the ratification of the actions of the members of the Board of Management
- 4. Adoption of a resolution on the ratification of the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board
- 5. Appointment of the Auditor
- 6. Election to the Supervisory Board
- 7. Adoption of a resolution on the amendment to Article 12 of the Articles of Association (Remuneration for the Supervisory Board)
- 8. Adoption of a resolution on the amendment to Article 15 Para. 2 of the Articles of Association (Verification of Right to Attend)
II. Further information on the convening and conduct of the Annual Stockholders' Meeting
Cologne, July 2020
LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft
The Board of Management
