SOPRA_STERIA_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Sopra Steria Group at a glance

1. Sopra Steria Group at a glance

Corporate name: Sopra Steria Group Until 2 September 2014, the name of the Company was “Sopra Group”. As a result of the successful public exchange offer made by Sopra Group for the shares of Groupe Steria SCA (see press release dated 6 August 2014), the Board of Directors met on 3 September 2014, with Pierre Pasquier presiding, and recorded the entry into effect of several resolutions conditionally adopted at the General Meeting of 27 June 2014. Among the consequences of the implementation of these resolutions was the change in the corporate name from “Sopra Group” to “Sopra Steria Group”. Registered office: PAE Les Glaisins, Annecy-le-Vieux, 74940 Annecy – France Head office: 9 bis, rue de Presbourg, 75116 Paris – France Legal form: French société anonyme with a Board of Directors. Date of incorporation: 5 January 1968, with a term of fifty years as from 25 January 1968, renewed at the General Meeting of 19 June To engage, in France and elsewhere, in consulting, expertise, research and training with regard to corporate organisation and information processing, in computer analysis and programming and in the performance of customised work. The design and creation of automation and management systems, including the purchase and assembly of components and equipment, and appropriate software. The creation or acquisition of and the operation of other businesses or establishments of a similar type. ARTICLE 14 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION – BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Company is administered by a Board of Directors comprising a minimum of three members and a maximum of eighteen, subject to the exception provided for by law in the event of a merger. The term of office of Directors is six years, expiring at the end of the Ordinary General Meeting convened to approve the accounts for the financial year then ended and held in the year in which their term of office comes to an end. Exceptionally, the General Meeting may decide to shorten the first term of office of a Director to 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years or 5 years in order to align his/her term of office with that of the other Directors in office at the time of the appointment. 1. Directors appointed at the General Meeting During the life of the Company, Directors are appointed, reappointed or dismissed by the shareholders in Ordinary General Meetings. No one can be appointed a Director if, having exceeded the age of seventy-five years, his/her appointment results in more than one-third of Board members exceeding this age. Once this limit is exceeded, the oldest Director is deemed to have resigned from office. 2012 for a subsequent term of ninety-nine years. Corporate purpose: “The Company’s purpose is: 2. Board of Directors

And, generally, all commercial or financial transactions, movable or immovable, directly or indirectly related to said corporate purpose or in partnership or in association with other companies or persons” (Article 2 of the Articles of Association). Commercial registration: 326 820 065 RCS Annecy Place where legal documents may be consulted: registered office. Financial year: from 1 January to 31 December of each year. Appropriation of earnings according to the Articles of Association: “An amount of at least five per cent shall be deducted from the profit for the financial year, reduced by prior losses, if any, in order to constitute the statutory reserve fund. Such deduction shall cease to be mandatory when the amount in the statutory reserve fund is equal to one-tenth of the share capital. Profit available for distribution comprises the profit for the year less any losses carried forward and amounts allocated to reserves, pursuant to the law and the Articles of Association, plus retained earnings. The General Meeting may deduct from this profit all amounts that it deems appropriate for allocation to all optional, ordinary or extraordinary reserves, or to retained earnings. The balance, if any, is apportioned at the General Meeting between all shareholders in proportion to the number of shares that they own. The General Meeting may also decide to distribute amounts deducted from the reserves at its disposal, expressly indicating the reserve items from which the deductions are made. However, dividends shall first be withdrawn from the profits for the financial year.” (Excerpt from Article 37 of the Articles of Association). Directors may be natural or legal persons. When a legal person is appointed as Director, the latter names a permanent representative who is subject to the same conditions, obligations and liabilities as all other Board members, without prejudice to the joint and several liability of the legal person thus represented. In the event of one or more vacancies on the Board of Directors, between two General Meetings, the Board may make temporary appointments, in accordance with the requirements of Article L. 225- 24 of the French Commercial Code. A Director appointed to replace another Director performs his/her duties for the remainder of the term of office of the individual previously serving in this position. An employee of the Company may only be appointed as a Director if his/her employment contract corresponds to an actual post. The number of Directors tied to the Company by an employment contract cannot exceed one-third of the Directors in office. Each Director must own at least one share. 2. Director representing the employees In accordance with legislative provisions, whenever the number of members of the Board of Directors appointed by the General Meeting pursuant to Articles L. 225-17 and L. 225-18 of the French Commercial

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SOPRA STERIA REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2017

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