Groupe Renault - 2020 Universal Registration Document

447 GROUPE RENAULT I UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2020 05 GENERAL INFORMATION RELATING TO RENAULT’S SHARE CAPITAL GROUPE RENAULT GROUPE RENAULT: A COMPANY THAT ACTS RESPONSIBLY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS RENAULT AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF RENAULT ON APRIL 23, 2021 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The acquisition, disposal, transfer, or exchange of these shares may be performed by any means, notably on the market or through over-the-counter transactions, including block trading, using derivative financial instruments or bonds or securities granting access to the Company’s share capital, or by implementing option strategies, within the bounds of applicable regulations. The Annual General Meeting sets: the maximum purchase price (or the counter-value of this amount P on the same date in any other currency), excluding acquisition costs, at €100 per share, and the maximum amount of funds allocated for the completion of the share purchase program at €2,957.25 million, it being specified that in the event of transactions affecting the share capital (splitting or consolidation of shares or free share allocations to shareholders), the price and the maximum amount of funds allocated for the completion of the share purchase program will be adjusted on the basis of the ratio of the number of securities constituting the share capital prior to the transaction compared to the total number after the transaction; the number of shares which may be acquired at 10% of the shares P constituting the share capital, it being specified that (a) this limit applies to a given amount of the Company’s share capital, to be adjusted if necessary to take into account transactions affecting the share capital subsequent to this Annual General Meeting and (b) if the aim of the share buyback is to enhance share liquidity pursuant to the conditions set out in the AMF General Regulations, the number of shares taken into account to calculate the 10% limit corresponds to the number of shares purchased, minus the number of shares resold during the authorization period. As of December 31, 2020, the 10% limit of the share capital corresponded to 29,572,228 Company shares. Within the limits allowed by the applicable regulations, transactions performed by the Board of Directors pursuant to this authorization may take place at any time during the validity of the share buyback program, it being specified that if a public bid for the Company’s stocks is made by a third party, the Board of Directors may not implement this authorization and the Company may not pursue any share purchase program until after the end of the bid period, except in the case of prior authorization having been granted by the Annual General Meeting. Pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 225-210 of the French Commercial Code, the Company may not own more than 10% of the total of its own shares, or more than 10% of any given share category, either directly or through any person acting in their own name on behalf of the Company. All powers are granted to the Board of Directors, including powers of sub-delegation, to implement this authorization, specify, if necessary, its terms, decide on its conditions and, in particular, place all orders on or off the stock market, assign or re-assign the shares acquired to the different purposes pursued in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory conditions, perform all formalities, and, more generally, do all that is required in this respect. Each year, the Board of Directors shall make a report of the transactions performed pursuant to this resolution to the Annual General Meeting. This authorization is granted for a maximum period of eighteen (18) months as of the date of this Annual General Meeting, and renders any previous authorization to the same end null and void for any remaining, unused amounts covered thereby. Renault share ownership 5.2.6 Renault shareholders as at December 31, 2020 5.2.6.1 OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND EXERCISABLE VOTING RIGHTS FOR THE LAST THREE FINANCIAL YEARS 12/31/2020 12/31/2019 12/31/2018 Number of shares held % of capital % of voting rights Number of shares held % of capital % of voting rights Number of shares held % of capital % of voting rights French State (1) 44,387,915 15.01% 28.57% 44,387,915 15.01% 28.69% 44,387,915 15.01% 28.60% Nissan Finance. Co., Ltd. 44,358,343 15.00% - 44,358,343 15.00% - 44,358,343 15.00% - Daimler Group 9,167,391 3.10% 5.07% 9,167,391 3.10% 5.09% (2) 9,167,391 3.10% 5.91% (2) Employees (3) 10,286,922 3.48% 5.30% 8,605,324 2.91% 4.63% 7,210,603 2.44% 4.14% Treasury stock 4,538,199 1.53% - 4,548,736 1.54% - 5,058,961 1.71% - Free float 182,983,514 61.88% 61.06% 184,654,575 62.44% 61.59% 185,539,071 62.74% 61.35% TOTAL 295,722,284 100.00% 100.00% 295,722,284 100.00% 100.00% 295,722,284 100.00% 100.00% For information on the change in the voting rights held by the French State, see the explanations in the following paragraphs. (1) The change in the percentage of voting rights of the Daimler group between 2018 and 2019 is the result of the loss of double voting rights attached to Renault shares (2) following a transfer of Renault shares between subsidiaries of the Daimler group (for details, see section 5.2.6.1 of the 2019 Universal registration document). The portion of shares held by employees and former employees that are taken into account in this category corresponds to shares held in the FCPE mutual funds, as well as (3) to registered shares directly held by the beneficiaries of free share allocation as of the 2016 allocation plan, pursuant to Article L. 225-102 of the French Commercial Code.