eQ Plc Inventory Change Launch
3 February 2026, at 8:15 am
Discover of the Annual Normal Assembly
Discover is given to the shareholders of eQ Plc to the Annual Normal Assembly (the “AGM”) to be held on 24 March 2026 at 5:00 p.m. at Sanoma Home’s Eliel assembly room, Töölönlahdenkatu 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland. The reception of individuals who’ve registered for the assembly will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the assembly venue.
The AGM can be held as a hybrid assembly in accordance with chapter 5, part 16, subsection 2 of the Finnish Restricted Legal responsibility Firms Act. As a substitute for taking part within the Annual Normal Assembly on the assembly venue, shareholders can absolutely train their rights throughout the assembly additionally by way of distant connection. Shareholders can train their proper to vote additionally by voting upfront. Additional attendance directions, directions for voting upfront and distant participation are introduced partially C of this discover to the AGM.
Shareholders can ask questions referred to in chapter 5, part 25 of the Finnish Firms Act in regards to the issues to be mentioned on the assembly, additionally in writing earlier than the assembly. Directions for submitting written questions are introduced on this discover beneath part C.
A. Issues on the agenda of the AGM
On the Annual Normal Assembly, the next issues can be thought-about:
1. Opening of the assembly
2. Calling the assembly to order
3. Election of individuals to scrutinise the minutes and individuals to oversee the counting of votes
4. Recording the legality of the assembly
5. Recording the attendance on the assembly and adoption of the record of votes
6. Presentation of the annual accounts, report of the Board of Administrators and auditors’ report for the yr 2025
– Presentation of the evaluate by the CEO
The annual accounts, report of the Board of Administrators and the auditors’ report printed by the Firm can be out there no later than 3 March 2026 on the Firm’s web site www.eq.fi.
7. Adoption of the annual accounts
8. Decision on the usage of the revenue proven on the stability sheet and the fee of dividend
The distributable technique of the mother or father firm on 31 December 2025 totalled EUR 52,808,156.41. The sum consisted of retained earnings of EUR 27,383,586.67 and the means within the reserve of invested unrestricted fairness of EUR 25,424,569.74.
The Board of Administrators proposes to the Annual Normal Assembly {that a} dividend of EUR 0.52 per share be paid out. The proposal corresponds to a dividend totalling EUR 21,531,742.96 calculated with the variety of shares on the shut of the monetary yr. The dividend can be paid out in two separate installments.
The primary installment, EUR 0.26 per share shall be paid to these shareholders who’re registered as shareholders in eQ Plc’s shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the report date of the dividend fee on 26 March 2026. The Board proposes 2 April 2026 because the fee date of the primary installment of the dividend.
The second installment, EUR 0.26 per share shall be paid in October 2026. The second installment shall be paid to these shareholders who’re registered as shareholders in eQ Plc’s shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the report date of the divided fee. The Board shall determine the report date and the fee date of the second installment of the divided in its assembly in September 2026. It’s contemplated that the report date of the second installment can be 7 October 2026 and that the fee date can be 14 October 2026.
After the tip of the monetary interval, no important adjustments have taken place within the monetary place of the corporate. The Board of Administrators really feel that the proposed distribution of dividend doesn’t endanger the liquidity of the corporate.
9. Decision on the discharge of the members of the Board of Administrators and the CEOs from legal responsibility for the monetary yr 1 January – 31 December 2025
10. Dealing with of the Remuneration Report for Governing Our bodies
The Remuneration Report for Governing Our bodies shall be out there on the corporate’s web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset no later than 3 March 2026.
11. Dealing with of the Remuneration Coverage for Governing Our bodies
The Remuneration Coverage for the corporate’s governing our bodies was beforehand introduced to the Annual Normal Assembly in 2025. The Remuneration Coverage should be introduced to the final assembly no less than each 4 years or every time substantial adjustments have been made to it.
The Board of Administrators presents the Remuneration Coverage for Governing Our bodies to the Annual Normal Assembly for adoption by an advisory resolution. The Remuneration Coverage for Governing Our bodies shall be printed along with the Annual Report by a inventory change launch and will probably be out there on the corporate’s web site https://www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset no later than 3 March 2026.
12. Decision on the remuneration of the members of the Board of Administrators
The Shareholders’ Nomination Committee of eQ Plc has proposed that the renumeration of the members of the Board of Administrators stay unchanged, i.e. Chair of the Board of Administrators receives 5,000 euros per thirty days, Vice Chair of the Board of Administrators receives 4,000 euros per thirty days and the members of the Board of Administrators obtain 3,000 euros per thirty days. As well as, a compensation of 750 euros per assembly is proposed to be paid for all of the Board members for every attended Board assembly and journey and lodging bills are reimbursed in response to the rules of eQ Plc.
13. Decision on the variety of members of the Board of Administrators
The Shareholders’ Nomination Committee of eQ Plc has proposed that the variety of the members of the Board of Administrators stay unchanged, i.e. that six individuals be on the Board of Administrators, or 5 individuals, if an individual proposed by the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee is prevented from being a Board member of the corporate.
14. Election of the members of the Board of Administrators
The Shareholders’ Nomination Committee of eQ Plc has proposed that the present Board members Päivi Arminen, Nicolas Berner, Caroline Bertlin, Georg Ehrnrooth, Janne Larma and Tomas von Rettig are re-elected to the Board of Administrators. If one of many individuals proposed by the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee is prevented from being a Board member of the corporate, such individuals who should not prevented from being Board members. The time period of workplace of the Board members ends on the shut of the subsequent Annual Normal Assembly.
All nominees have given their consent to the proposal. As well as, the nominees have indicated that on choice, they’ll choose Janne Larma as Chair of the Board of Administrators.
Member candidates’ resumes and independence assessments can be found on the corporate’s web site: www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset.
15. Decision on the remuneration of the auditor
The Board of Administrators proposes that the auditor to be elected be paid remuneration in response to the auditor’s bill authorized by eQ Plc.
16. Election of auditor
The Board of Administrators proposes, that for a time period ending on the finish of the Annual Normal Assembly 2027, Approved Public Accountants KPMG Oy Ab be elected auditor of the Firm. The auditor has acknowledged that the auditor with major accountability can be Tuomas Ilveskoski, APA, Approved Sustainability Auditor.
17. Modification to the Constitution of the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee
The Constitution of the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee was beforehand introduced to the Normal Assembly in 2025. The Constitution of the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee should be introduced to the Normal Assembly every time materials adjustments are made to it.
The Board of Administrators proposes that the Constitution of the Shareholders’ Nomination Committee be authorized. The Constitution proposed by the Board of Administrators is out there on eQ Plc’s web site at: https://www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset
18. Authorising the Board of Administrators to determine on the issuance of shares in addition to the issuance of particular rights entitling to shares
The Board of Administrators proposes that the AGM authorises the Board of Administrators to determine on a share subject or share points and/or the issuance of particular rights entitling to shares referred to in Chapter 10 Part 1 of the Firms Act, comprising a most complete of three,500,000 new shares. The quantity of the proposed authorisation corresponds to roughly 8.45 per cent of all shares within the Firm on the time of this Discover of the AGM.
The authorisation is proposed for use with the intention to finance or perform potential acquisitions or different enterprise transactions, to strengthen the stability sheet and the monetary place of the Firm, to meet Firm’s incentive schemes or to every other functions determined by the Board. 50 per cent of the shares or particular rights entitling to shares issued on the premise of the authorisation could also be used to implement incentive schemes or in any other case for remuneration. It’s proposed that primarily based on the authorization, the Board decides on all different issues associated to the issuance of shares and particular rights entitling to shares referred to in Chapter 10 Part 1 of the Firms Act, together with the recipients of the shares or the particular rights entitling to shares and the quantity of the consideration to be paid. Due to this fact, primarily based on the authorisation, shares or particular rights entitling to shares may be issued directed i.e. in deviation of the shareholders pre-emptive rights as described within the Firms Act. A share subject may be executed with out fee in accordance with the preconditions set out within the Firms Act.
The authorisation will cancel all earlier authorisations to determine on the issuance of shares in addition to the issuance of particular rights entitling to shares and is efficient till the subsequent Annual Normal Assembly, nevertheless not more than 18 months.
19. Closing of the assembly
B. Paperwork of the AGM
This discover to the Annual Normal Assembly, that comprises all resolution proposals on the agenda of the AGM, is out there to shareholders on eQ Plc’s web site at www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset. eQ Plc’s Annual Report, containing the Firm’s annual accounts, the report of the Board of Administrators and the auditors’ report along with the Remuneration Report for Governing Our bodies and the Remuneration Coverage for Governing Our bodies is out there on the stated web site no later than 3 March 2026. The proposals for resolutions and different beforehand talked about paperwork will even be out there on the AGM.
The Minutes of the Annual Normal Assembly can be out there on the corporate’s web site no later than 7 April 2026.
C. Directions to the individuals of the AGM
1. Shareholders registered within the shareholders’ register (Finnish book-entry account)
Every shareholder, who’s registered on the report date of the Annual Normal Assembly 12 March 2026 within the Firm’s register held by Euroclear Finland Oy, has the suitable to take part within the Annual Normal Assembly. A shareholder, whose shares are registered on their private Finnish book-entry account, together with fairness financial savings account, is robotically registered within the shareholders’ register of the Firm. Modifications in share possession after the report date of the AGM don’t have an effect on the suitable to take part within the assembly or the shareholder’s variety of votes.
Registration for the AGM will start on 24 February 2026 at 10 am. A shareholder, who’s registered within the shareholders’ register of the Firm and who needs to take part within the Annual Normal Assembly, should register for the AGM no later than 17 March 2026 by 4:00 pm by which era the registrations should be obtained. Shareholders might register to the assembly:
a) Through the web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset
On-line registration requires that the shareholders or their statutory representatives or proxy representatives use sturdy digital authentication both by Finnish, Swedish or Danish financial institution ID or cell certificates.
b) By e mail agm@innovatics.fi or by mail
A shareholder who registers by mail or e mail shall ship registration kind out there on the Firm’s web site at www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset or corresponding data to Innovatics Oy by mail to Innovatics Oy, Annual Normal Assembly / eQ Oyj, Ratamestarinkatu 13 A, FI-00520 Helsinki, Finland or by e mail at agm@innovatics.fi.
When registering, shareholders shall present requested data, reminiscent of their title, date of beginning or Enterprise ID, handle, phone quantity, e mail handle and the title of any assistant or proxy consultant and the date of beginning and e mail handle and/or phone variety of any proxy consultant. As well as, the shareholder shall inform whether or not the shareholder or its consultant will take part within the AGM on the assembly venue or by way of a distant connection. The non-public knowledge given by the shareholder to the Firm or Innovatics Oy can be used solely in reference to the Annual Normal Assembly and with the processing of associated obligatory registrations.
The shareholder and their consultant or proxy should be capable to show their identification and/or proper of illustration on the assembly place, if obligatory.
Further data on the registration is out there throughout the registration interval by phone from Innovatics Oy at +358 10 2818 909 on enterprise days throughout 9:00 am till 12:00 midday and from 1:00 pm till 4:00 pm.
2. Holders of nominee-registered shares
A holder of nominee-registered shares has the suitable to take part within the Annual Normal Assembly by advantage of such shares, primarily based on which they on the report date of the Annual Normal Assembly 12 March 2026 can be entitled to be registered within the shareholders’ register of the Firm held by Euroclear Finland Oy. Participation within the AGM additionally requires that the shareholder has been registered on the premise of such shares within the momentary shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Finland Oy on the newest by 19 March 2026 by 10:00 am. As regards nominee-registered shares this constitutes due registration for the AGM. Modifications within the possession of shares after the report date of the Annual Normal Assembly don’t have an effect on the suitable to take part within the AGM nor the variety of votes of the shareholder.
A holder of nominee-registered shares is suggested to request directly the required directions concerning the momentary registration within the shareholders’ register, the distant participation or participation on the assembly venue, advance voting, the issuing of proxy paperwork and voting directions and registration for the Annual Normal Assembly from their custodian. The account supervisor of the custodian shall quickly register a holder of nominee-registered shares, who needs to take part within the Annual Normal Assembly, within the shareholders’ register of the Firm on the newest by the point acknowledged above and, if obligatory, deal with advance voting on behalf of a holder of nominee-registered shares, on the newest previous to the tip of the registration interval for the holders of nominee-registered shares.
A holder of nominee-registered shares who has registered for the Normal Assembly may take part within the assembly in actual time utilizing telecommunication connection and technical means. Along with the momentary registration within the firm’s shareholders’ register, the real-time participation within the assembly requires the submission of the shareholder’s e mail handle and phone quantity and, if obligatory, a proxy doc and different paperwork essential to show the suitable of illustration to by common mail to Innovatics Oy, Yhtiökokous/eQ Oyj, Ratamestarinkatu 13 A, FI-00520 Helsinki, Finland or by e mail to agm@innovatics.fi earlier than the tip of the registration interval for the holders of nominee registered shares, in order that the shareholders may be despatched a participation hyperlink and password to take part within the assembly. If a holder of nominee-registered shares has authorised their custodian to forged advance votes on their behalf, such advance votes can be taken under consideration as advance votes of the nominee-registered shareholder on the AGM, until the holder of nominee-registered shares votes in any other case on the AGM.
3. Proxy representatives and powers of legal professional
A shareholder might take part within the Annual Normal Assembly and train its rights on the assembly by means of proxy illustration. A shareholder’s proxy consultant may register for the AGM and vote upfront as described on this discover. The net registration and advance voting of a statutory or a proxy consultant require that the statutory representatives or the proxy representatives determine themselves to the digital registration and voting service on the Firm’s web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset in individual through the use of sturdy digital authentication both by Finnish, Swedish or Danish financial institution ID or cell certificates, after which they might proceed with the registration and voting on behalf of the shareholder they signify.
Proxy consultant of the shareholder shall in reference to the registration current a dated proxy doc or in any other case in a dependable method show their proper to signify the shareholder. An instance of the proxy doc and voting directions is out there on the Firm’s web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset on 6 February 2026, 9:00 am, the most recent. Ought to a shareholder take part within the Annual Normal Assembly by the use of a number of proxy representatives representing the shareholder with shares in numerous book-entry accounts, the shares by which every proxy consultant represents the shareholder shall be recognized in reference to the registration.
The doable proxy paperwork must be delivered primarily as an attachment in reference to digital registration or alternatively to agm@innovatics.fi earlier than the closing of the registration. Along with the supply of proxies, the shareholder or their proxy should deal with registering for the AGM as described above on this discover.
Shareholders which are authorized entities may, as a substitute for conventional proxy authorisation paperwork, use the digital Suomi.fi authorisation service for authorising their proxy representatives. The consultant is remitted within the Suomi.fi service at www.suomi.fi/e-authorizations (utilizing the authorisation matter “Illustration on the Normal Assembly”). When registering for the AGM within the digital common assembly service offered by Inderes Plc, authorised representatives shall determine themselves with sturdy digital authentication, after which the digital mandate is robotically verified. The sturdy digital authentication takes place with private on-line banking credentials or a cell certificates. For extra data, see www.suomi.fi/e-authorisations.
4. Distant participation within the assembly
A shareholder who has the suitable to take part within the Annual Normal Assembly can take part within the assembly not solely by taking part within the AGM on the assembly venue but in addition, shareholders might use their rights in full and in real-time throughout the assembly by way of distant connection.
As a result of restricted house on the assembly venue, the shareholder’s or proxy’s notification of participation within the AGM by way of distant connection is binding, and the shareholder or proxy doesn’t have the suitable to alter the strategy of participation or take part within the assembly on the assembly place after the registration interval has expired. Nonetheless, the shareholder’s consultant’s notification of participation by way of distant connection doesn’t restrict the suitable of shareholder’s different representatives to take part within the assembly on the assembly place.
A shareholder or proxy who has registered to take part within the AGM on the assembly venue can change their participation to distant participation. There isn’t a want to tell the corporate about this individually. Distant participation takes place by way of the distant participation hyperlink despatched to the cellphone quantity and/or e mail handle offered when registering for the AGM.
The distant connection to the AGM is offered via Inderes Plc’s digital common assembly service on the Videosync platform, which features a video and audio connection to the Annual Normal Assembly. Collaborating by way of the distant connection doesn’t require paid software program or downloads. Along with an web connection, participation requires a pc, smartphone or pill with audio system or headphones for sound replica and a microphone for asking oral questions or talking turns. To take part, it’s endorsed to make use of the most recent variations of the commonest browser packages in use.
The participation hyperlink and password for distant participation can be despatched by e mail and/or textual content message to the e-mail handle and/or cell phone quantity offered throughout registration to all these registered for the Annual Normal Assembly no later than the day earlier than the assembly. Thus, advance voters and shareholders who’ve registered to attend the Normal Assembly on the venue may take part within the Normal Assembly remotely by way of telecommunication in the event that they so want. It’s endorsed to log into the assembly system effectively upfront of the assembly’s begin time.
Extra detailed details about the final assembly service may be discovered on the corporate’s web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset. The hyperlink to check the compatibility of a pc, smartphone or pill and the community connection may be discovered at https://b2b.inderes.com/fi/knowledge-base/yhteensopivuuden-testaaminen. It’s endorsed that you simply familiarise your self with the extra detailed participation directions earlier than the beginning of the AGM.
5. Voting upfront
Shareholders whose shares are registered on their Finnish book-entry account, together with fairness financial savings account, might vote upfront on sure gadgets on the agenda of the AGM throughout the interval between 24 February 2026 10:00 a.m. – 17 March 2026 at 4:00 p.m. within the following methods:
a) Through the web site www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset
Advance voting requires that the shareholders or their statutory representatives or proxy representatives use sturdy digital authentication both by Finnish, Swedish or Danish financial institution ID or cell certificates.
b) By e mail agm@innovatics.fi or by mail
A shareholder or its statutory consultant who votes upfront by mail or e mail shall ship the voting kind out there on the Firm’s web site at www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset or corresponding data to Innovatics Oy by mail to Innovatics Oy, Annual Normal Assembly / eQ Oyj, Ratamestarinkatu 13 A, FI-00520 Helsinki, Finland or by e mail at agm@innovatics.fi. Advance votes should be obtained by the point the advance voting interval ends. Submitting advance votes by mail or e mail to Innovatics Oy earlier than the due date of the registration interval and advance voting constitutes due registration for the AGM offered that the data required above for registration is offered in reference to the advance voting kind.
A shareholder who has voted upfront and who needs to make use of their proper to current questions beneath the Firms Act, demand a vote or vote on a doable counter-proposal, should attend the final assembly in individual or have their proxy consultant take part within the AGM utilizing the distant connection. The votes forged by those that have voted upfront can be taken under consideration within the decision-making of the Normal Assembly, no matter whether or not they take part within the Normal Assembly remotely or on the assembly venue or not. In the event that they take part remotely or on the assembly location, they’ve the chance to alter their advance votes throughout the assembly, if they want, when a vote takes place.
For holders of nominee-registered shares, advance voting is carried out by way of the account supervisor of the custodian. The account supervisor might vote upfront on behalf of the holders of nominee-registered shares that they signify in accordance with the voting directions offered by the holders of nominee registered shares throughout the registration interval for the holders of nominee-registered shares.
A proposal topic to advance voting is deemed to have been introduced with out amendments on the AGM. Situations associated to the digital advance voting and different associated directions can be found on the Firm’s web site at www.eq.fi/en/about-eq-group/hallinnointi/yhtiokokoukset.
6. Different directions/data
The assembly shall be held in Finnish.
Shareholders who’re current on the assembly shall have a proper to current questions referred to in Chapter 5, Part 25 of the Firms Act with respect to the issues to be thought-about on the Annual Normal Assembly.
A shareholder might current questions referred to in Chapter 5, Part 25 of the Firms Act with respect to the issues to be thought-about on the Annual Normal Assembly by 10 March 2026 at 4:00 pm on the on-line registration service or by e mail to eQ.Yhtiokokous@eq.fi. The corporate’s administration typically solutions such questions submitted in writing upfront on the AGM or no later than two weeks after the final assembly on the corporate’s web site. When presenting a query to the Annual Normal Assembly, the shareholder should present ample details about their shareholding upon request.
On the date of this discover, 3 February 2026, the entire variety of eQ Plc’s shares and votes is 41 407 198. The Firm doesn’t maintain its personal shares.
Helsinki, 3 February 2026
eQ Plc
Board of Administrators
Further data: Juha Surve, Group Normal Counsel, tel. +358 9 6817 8733
Distribution: Nasdaq Helsinki, www.eQ.fi
eQ is a Finnish group of firms specialising in asset administration and company finance enterprise. eQ Asset Administration gives a variety of asset administration companies for establishments and people. The belongings managed by the group complete roughly EUR 13.8 billion. Advium Company Finance, which is a part of the group, gives companies associated to mergers and acquisitions, actual property transactions and fairness capital markets. The share of the group’s mother or father firm eQ Plc is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Extra details about the group is out there on our web site at www.eQ.fi
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