NATIXIS - Meeting notice combined general shareholder's meeting

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Securities giving access to the share capital

Characteristics of securities likely to be issued under resolutions twenty-seven to thirty-three: Resolutions twenty-seven to thirty-three submitted to this Shareholders’ Meeting will authorize your Board of Directors to issue securities giving access to the share capital of the Company, either through the issue of new shares such as bonds convertible into or redeemable for shares, or bonds with share warrants attached or through the delivery of existing shares such as “OCEANEs” (bonds which are convertible into new shares or exchangeable for existing shares); these securities could either be in the form of debt securities as in the examples given above, or capital securities such as shares with share warrants attached. However, in accordance with the law, capital securities convertible or transformable into debt securities cannot be issued. Conditions for the issuing of shares to which the securities giving access to share capital issued entitle the holder and dates on which these rights may be exercised: Securities giving access to share capital in the form of debt securities (for example, bonds convertible into or redeemable for shares, or bonds with share warrants attached) may entitle holders, either at any time, during set periods, or at set dates, to the allocation of shares. This allocation may be by way of conversion (for example, of convertible bonds into shares), redemption (for example, bonds redeemable in shares), exchange (for example, bonds exchangeable for shares), or the presentation of a warrant (for example, bonds with share warrants attached) or by any other way, during the issue period, regardless of whether the preferential subscription rights of holders of securities issued in this way are waived or not. In accordance with the law, delegations of authority to issue securities giving access to shares to be issued approved by your General Shareholders’ Meeting entails the waiving of shareholders’ preferential subscription rights to the shares to which the securities issued entitle them. For example, if your General Shareholders’ Meeting approves resolution twenty-seven, you would, according to law, waive your preferential subscription rights to shares that your Company would issue, where appropriate, to redeem a possible bond redeemable in shares.

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NATIXIS 2019 MEETING NOTICE