Annual General Meeting Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2019
Majority rules
The Annual General Meetings resolution on transfer of treasury stock according to item 18.1 a) above requires that shareholders representing at
least nine-tenths of the votes cast as well as the shares represented at the Annual General Meeting approve the proposal and the Annual General Meetings resolution on transfer of treasury stock according to item 18.1 b) above requires
that shareholders representing at least
two-thirds
of the votes cast as well as the shares represented at the Annual General Meeting approve the proposal. A valid resolution in accordance with the proposal for
an equity swap agreement under item 18.2 above requires that more than half of the votes cast at the Annual General Meeting approve the proposal.
Item 19 The Board of Directors proposal for resolution on transfer of treasury stock in relation to the resolutions on the Long-Term Variable
Compensation Programs 2015, 2016 and 2017
Background
The Annual General Meetings 2015, 2016 and 2017 resolved on a right for the Company to transfer in total not more than 10,200,000 shares of series B in the
Company on a stock exchange to cover certain payments, mainly social security charges, which may occur in relation to the Long-Term Variable Compensation Programs 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Each resolution has only been valid up to the following Annual General Meeting. Resolutions on transfer of treasury stock for the purpose of the above
mentioned programs have therefore been repeated at the subsequent Annual General Meeting.
In accordance with the resolutions on transfer of in total not
more than 10,200,000 shares, 423,200 shares of series B have been transferred up to February 19, 2019.
Proposal
The Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolve that the Company shall have the right to transfer, prior to the Annual General Meeting
2020, not more than 9,776,800 shares of series B in the Company, or the lower number of shares of series B, which as per March 27, 2019 remains of the original 10,200,000 shares, for the purpose of covering certain payments, primarily social
security charges that may occur in relation to the Long-Term Variable Compensation Programs 2015, 2016 and 2017. Transfer of shares shall be effected on Nasdaq Stockholm at a price within the, at each time, prevailing price interval for the share.
Majority rules
The resolution of the Annual General
Meeting on a transfer of treasury stock requires that shareholders holding at least
two-thirds
of the votes cast as well as the shares represented at the Annual General Meeting vote in favor of the proposal.
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