Warsaw, dated 1 April 2016
25/2016 Information on the end of the programme to buy back own sharesThe Management Board of Sygnity S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw ("Company", "Sygnity"), taking into consideration Article 4 (2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003 implementing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exemptions for buy-back programmes and stabilisation of financial instruments (OJ L 336/33) informs that as of 31 March 2016 Sygnity ended the buy-back programme.
The buy-back programme ended due to the lapse of the time-limit specified in Resolution No. 7 of the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company dated 31 March 2015 to buy back own shares and on the authorization granted to the Management Board of the Company ("OGM Resolution") adopted pursuant to Article 362 (1) (8) of the Commercial Companies Code.
In accordance with the authorization granted in the OGM Resolution the buy-back programme commenced on 1 June 2015 in connection with a resolution of the Management Board of Sygnity dated 1 June 2015 to implement the buy-back programme, which resolution is referred to in a current report No. 15/2015 dated 1 June 2015. Shares of the Company had been bought under transactions made through a brokerage house ING Securities spółka akcyjna with its registered office in Warsaw on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The Company informed on the buy-back transactions in relevant current reports No. 16/2015, 17/2015, 19/2015, 20/2015, 21/2015, 22/2015, 25/2015, 26/2015, 28/2015, 29/2015, 30/2015, 35/2015, 3/2016, 4/2016, 5/2016, 6/2016, 8/2016, 10/2016,
11/2016, 14/2016, 15/2016, 16/2016, 17/2016, 18/2016 and 20/2016.
The Management Board of Sygnity provides information to sum up the results of the buy-back programme carried out pursuant to the OGM Resolution:
the total number of shares bought by the Company under the buy-back programme amounts to 193,313 shares, which is equal to 193,313 votes at the General Meeting of the Company and 1.6264% of the total number of votes at the General Meeting of the Company (however, the Company does not exercise the voting right attached to its own shares);
the average unit price per one share under the buy-back programme amounted to PLN 8.64;
the total nominal value of shares bought under the buy-back programme amounts to PLN 193,313.00, which is equal to 1.6264% of the capital share of the Company.
The buy-back programme was implemented in order to:
redeem own shares bought by the Company;
finance investment transactions of the Company, in particular in order to re-sale as part of take-overs and acquisition for shareholders in taken-over entities in exchange for shares of these entities;
implement future motivation systems.
The final destination of the own shares of the Company bought under the buy-back programme in accordance with the authorization granted in the OGM Resolution was specified by the Management Board of Sygnity in a separate implementing resolution.
The total number of own shares held by Sygnity amounts to 523,313 and is equal to 4.4027% of the share capital of the Company and the total number of votes at the General Meeting of the Company (however, the Company does not exercise the voting right attached to its own shares).
Detailed legal basis: paragraph 5 (1) (6) in conjunction with paragraph 12 of the Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 19 February 2009 on current and periodic information provided by issuers of securities and on conditions under which information required by legal regulations of a third country may be recognized as an equivalent (Dz.U. [Polish Journal of Laws] of 2009, No. 33, item 259 as amended).
