LEGRAND / 2018 Registration document

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS OF COMPANY OFFICERS

Compensation components paid or awarded in respect of the 2018 financial year from February 8, 2018

Amounts or accounting valuation submitted for vote

Details

Stock options: not applicable

There are no plans to award any stock options.

On the recommendation from the Compensation Committee, the Board of Directors on May 30, 2018 decided to set up a 2018 Performance Share Plan. This plan (including the performance criteria applicable to the shares awarded) is described in section 6.2.2.2 of the Company’s registration document, on pages 228-230, and in section 7.3 of the Company’s registration document, page 248. The award benefiting Mr. Benoît Coquart in respect of this plan corresponds to 3.72% of the overall award (2) . The number of performance shares awarded to Mr. Benoît Coquart is 19,366. This number of shares that will definitively vest may subsequently vary in a range between 0% and 150% of the number of shares initially awarded, according to the level of achievement of “external” and “internal” financial performance criteria and an extra-financial performance criterion. The Board of Directors took its decision on May 30, 2018 on the basis of an authorization granted by the General Meeting on May 30, 2018, in its seventeenth resolution (Authorization to award performance shares).

Performance shares/valuation:

Stock options, performance shares or any other long-term compensation component

Annual amount: €1,226,528

Pro rata amount as of February 8, 2018 €1,098,757

Other awards of securities: not applicable

There are no plans to make other awards of securities.

Extraordinary compensation (1)

Not applicable

There are no plans to award extraordinary compensation.

Mr. Benoît Coquart does not receive attendance fees in respect of his office within the subsidiaries of the Company.

Attendance fees

Not applicable

Annual amount: €4,347 Amount adjusted on a prorata basis from February 8, 2018: €3,894

Value of benefits of any kind

An executive car was made available to the Chief Executive Officer in 2018.

(1) Compensation component whose payment is subject to the approval of the Annual Combined General Meeting of May 29, 2019, pursuant to paragraph 2 of section II of article L. 225-100 of the French Commercial Code. (2) This calculation takes into account the adjustment of the number of performance shares made in view of the dividend payment arrangements decided upon by the Company’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting on May 30, 2018, to acknowledge the impact of this transaction on the interests of beneficiaries of performance shares (for details, please refer to chapter 7.3 of the 2018 registration document). (3) €656,929, corresponding to 2013 Future Performance Units awarded to Mr. Benoît Coquart with respect to his role prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, was paid to him in June 2018.

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