Press release: Leonteq publishes agenda for the Annual General Meeting 2025

PRESS RELEASE | LEONTEQ PUBLISHES AGENDA FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025

Zurich, 28 February 2025 | Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR

Leonteq AG (SIX: LEON) today published the agenda and the proposals of the Board of Directors and proposals submitted by shareholders for its Annual General Meeting 2025.

At Leonteq’s forthcoming Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors proposes the re-election of five of its current seven members as well as the re-election of Christopher Chambers as Chairman. Richard A. Laxer, Board member since 2018 and Sylvie Davidson, Board member since 2021 will not stand for re-election.

The Board further proposes the election of Sylvia Steinmann as a new independent member of the Board of Directors. Sylvia Steinmann (1965) started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Berlin before moving to the insurance sector where she worked for 14 years in various executive IT management roles at Swiss Re and as COO for Global IT at Zurich Insurance. From 2011 to 2016 she served as CIO at Deutsche Post DHL Global Forwarding Freight and then for two years as CIO at SYNLAB International. From 2018 to 2022 Sylvia Steinmann served as CIO & Cloud Transformation Officer at Swiss Life Switzerland. Since 2023, she serves as a non-executive board member at Bayerische Landesbank, Munich and since 2024 at Worldline, Paris. A German and Swiss national, Sylvia Steinmann graduated from Technische Universität Berlin with a lic.rer.pol. in Business Administration and holds a Master’s of Science in Information Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.

Christopher Chambers, Chairman of Leonteq, stated: “On behalf of the Board of Directors and the company, I would like to express my gratitude to Richard and Sylvie for their valuable contributions to Leonteq over many years.” He added, “Sylvia Steinmann is an accomplished leader and expert in business and digital transformation in international financial services and industry organisations. With her nomination, we are fulfilling our commitment to improve the board's capabilities in the areas of technology, digitalisation and innovation.”

Distribution to shareholders
In line with Leonteq’s current dividend policy to distribute more than 50% of annual Group net profits to its shareholders, the Board proposes a dividend of CHF 0.25 per share for the financial year 2024 at this year’s Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to a payout ratio of 76%.

As announced on 14 February 2025, Leonteq has received two requests from shareholders to accelerate the return of excess capital to its shareholders. The Board fully agrees with this principle, but considers it prudent to determine the amount and route to return any excess capital to shareholders once the implementation of the new enhanced regulatory regime is more advanced.

Consequently, the Board recommends that shareholders vote against these two proposals. Recognising the strong desire from shareholders for a quicker return of excess capital, the Board intends to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting once the implementation of the enhanced capital regime is more advanced before the end of 2025. At that Extraordinary General Meeting it will propose the amount and route for an extraordinary capital return.

The invitation and all agenda items to the Annual General Meeting on 27 March 2025 is available on Leonteq’s website at www.leonteq.com/agm.

Important dates
19 March 2025 Close of share register
27 March 2025 Annual General Meeting 2025
31 March 2025 Ex-dividend date
01 April 2025 Record date
02 April 2025 Payment date
24 July 2025 Half-year 2025 results

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LEONTEQ

Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees. The company has offices and subsidiaries in 13 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Leonteq AG has a BBB credit rating by Fitch Ratings, was assigned with an AA ESG rating by MSCI and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON). www.leonteq.com

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