Euronext // 2021 Universal Registration Document

Financial Statements

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

8.6 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 1

GENERAL INFORMATION

Cassa di Compensatione e Garanzia S.p.A. (Euronext Clearing), a fully owned Italian multi-asset clearing house. The Group further owns Euronext FX Inc., a US-based Electronic Communication Network in the spot foreign exchange market, and has majority stakes in Nord Pool, a leading power market in Europe offering intraday and day-ahead trading in the physical energy markets, and MTS S.p.A., a leading trading platform for European government bonds. The Group’s in-house IT function supports its exchange operations. In addition, the Group provides software licenses as well as IT development, operation and maintenance services to third-party exchanges. These Consolidated Financial Statements were authorised for issuance by Euronext N.V.’s Supervisory Board on 31 March 2022 and will be submitted for adoption by the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Shareholders on 18 May 2022. n €3,690 million from the drawdown of the €4,400 million bridge loan facility (see Note 29); and n €579 million of new equity through a private placement to CDP Equity and Intesa Sanpaolo. Under the private placement, CDP Equity and Intesa Sanpaolo became shareholders of Euronext N.V. by subscribing to respectively 5.6 million and 1.0 million newly issued shares in Euronext N.V., for a price of €87.70 per share, representing a total consideration of €579 million (see Note 26). The Group partially repaid the drawdown of the bridge loan facility, through €1,800 million of debt issued in the debt capital markets with long-term maturities (see Note 29) and €1,820 million of new equity issued through a rights offer to Euronext’s existing shareholders (see Note 26). During the year ended 31 December 2021, €28.0 million of transaction costs related to the acquisition have been incurred, which were recognised in Exceptional items (see Note 12). For more details on the acquisition, reference is made to Note 5.

Euronext N.V. (“the Group” or “the Company”) is a public limited liability company incorporated and domiciled at Beursplein 5, 1012 JW Amsterdam in the Netherlands under Chamber of Commerce number 60234520 and is listed on the following Euronext local markets i.e. Euronext Amsterdam, Euronext Brussels, Euronext Lisbon and Euronext Paris. The Group operates securities and derivatives exchanges in Continental Europe, Ireland and Norway. It offers a full range of exchange- and corporate services, including security listings, cash and derivatives trading, and market data dissemination. It combines the Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Paris exchanges in a highly integrated, cross-border organisation. The Group also operates Interbolsa S.A. (Euronext Securities Porto), Verdipapirsentralen ASA (Euronext Securities Oslo), VP Securities AS (Euronext Securities Copenhagen) and Monte Titoli S.p.A. (Euronext Securities Milan) (respectively the Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish and Italian national central securities depositories (“CSDs”)) and The financial position and performance of the Group was particularly affected by the following events and transactions that have occurred during the year: Acquisition of London Stock Exchange Group Holdings Italia S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana Group) On 9 October 2020, the Group announced that it had entered into a binding agreement with London Stock Exchange Group Plc (“LSEG”) to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of London Stock Exchange Group Holdings Italia S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana Group). The acquisition creates the leading player inEuropean capitalmarkets infrastructure. It will strengthen Euronext’s leadership in European cash equities, while achieving enhanced business diversification with new capabilities in fixed income trading and increasing post trade activities with a fully-owned, multi-asset clearing house and a scale central securities depository. The transaction was conditional upon a broad range of conditions including regulatory approvals in several jurisdictions. Initial financing of the transaction was fully secured through a €4,400 million bridge loan facility underwritten by a group of banks. On 29 April 2021, the Group completed the acquisition of the Borsa Italiana Group for a final consideration of €4,447 million, following the satisfaction of all condition precedents. The transaction was financed through: n ~€300 million from the use of existing cash; NOTE 2

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND TRANSACTIONS

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Bond issue and new Revolving Credit Facility

Bonds issue To partially repay the drawdown of the bridge loan facility, the Group issued €1,800 million of new debt in the debt capital markets with long-term maturities (“Bonds Issue”).

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