The shareholders of NextCell Pharma AB (publ), Reg. No. 556965-8361 (”NextCell” or the ”company”), are hereby summoned to an Extraordinary General Meeting on Monday, 27 May 2024, 10:00 CEST, in the Novum building, floor 6 (elevator E), Hälsovägen 7, SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden.
In order to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting, shareholders shall be registered in the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB as of 17 May 2024. Further, shareholders who wish to participate in the Extraordinary General Meeting must give notice of participation to the company no later than 21 May 2024. Notice of participation can be made:
The notice of participation must state name, personal identification number or corporate registration number, postal address, telephone number, shareholding and, where applicable, information about any proxy or shareholder assistants at the Extraordinary General Meeting. Shareholders or its proxies may bring a maximum of two assistants.
In order to be entitled to attend the Extraordinary General Meeting, a shareholder whose shares are nominee-registered must, in addition to giving notice of participation in the Extraordinary General Meeting, register its shares in its own name so that the shareholder is registered in the share register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB as of the record date on 17 May 2024. Such registration may be temporary (so-called voting rights registration), and request for such voting rights registration shall be made to the nominee in accordance with the nominee’s routines at such a time in advance as decided by the nominee. Voting rights registrations made no later than the second banking day after 17 May 2024 are taken into account in the presentation of the share register.
Shareholders represented by proxy must issue a written, signed and dated power of attorney for the proxy. The power of attorney must not have been issued more than one year before the date of the Extraordinary General Meeting, unless the power of attorney provides for a longer period, however, not exceeding five years from issuance. The original power of attorney as well as registration certificate and other authorization documents, evidencing the authorized representative, should reach the company at the above address no later than 21 May 2024.
Proxy form is available from the company and on the company’s website, www.nextcellpharma.com, and is upon request sent to shareholders who provide their postal address.
The Board of Directors proposes that Hans-Peter Ekre, or the person appointed by the Board of Directors in the event of his impediment, be elected Chairman of the Extraordinary General Meeting.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary General Meeting resolves to amend the limits for the number of members of the Board of Directors in the Articles of Association as follows.
Current wording | Proposed wording |
§ 6 The Board of Directors shall consist of a minimum of four and a maximum of eight members with a minimum of zero and a maximum of three deputies. | § 6 The Board of Directors shall consist of a minimum of three and a maximum of eight members with a minimum of zero and a maximum of three deputies. |
The Nomination Committee proposes that the number of members of the Board of Directors elected by the general meeting for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting shall be three (3) members with no deputies.
The proposal is conditional upon that the Extraordinary General Meeting also resolves in accordance with the proposal for resolution under item 7.
The Nomination Committee proposes that the fees shall remain unchanged in relation to the resolution at the Annual General Meeting on 30 November 2023.
The proposal is conditional upon that the Extraordinary General Meeting also resolves in accordance with the proposal for resolution under item 7.
The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of the Board members Hans-Peter Ekre, Edvard Smith and Camilla Myhre Sandberg for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting. Hans-Peter Ekre is proposed to be elected as new Chairman of the Board.
The proposal is conditional upon that the Extraordinary General Meeting also resolves in accordance with the proposal for resolution under item 7.
The Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary General Meeting resolves to (i) amend the limits for the share capital and the number of shares in the Articles of Association, and (ii) approve the Board of Directors’ resolution to issue new shares and warrants with preferential rights for existing shareholders as set out below. The proposals shall be considered as one proposal and therefore adopted by the Extraordinary General Meeting as one and the same resolution.
In order to enable the new issue of shares and warrants that the Extraordinary General Meeting is proposed to approve in accordance with item (ii) below, the Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary General Meeting resolves to amend the limits for the share capital and the number of shares in the Articles of Association as follows.
Current wording | Proposed wording |
§ 4 The share capital shall be no less than SEK 4,776,500 and no more than SEK 19,106,000. | § 4The share capital shall be no less than SEK 7,047,802 and no more than SEK 28,191,208. |
§ 5The number of shares shall be no less than 23,300,000 and no more than 93,200,000. | § 5The number of shares shall be no less than 34,379,523 and no more than 137,518,092. |
The Board of Directors proposes that the Extraordinary General Meeting resolves to approve the Board of Directors’ resolution on 24 April 2024 on a new issue, with preferential rights for existing shareholders, of no more than 37,817,475 shares, entailing an increase of the share capital of no more than SEK 7,752,582.375, and no more than 37,817,475 warrants of series TO2, entailing an increase of the share capital upon full exercise of no more than SEK 7,752,582.375. The share capital can increase by no more than SEK 15,505,164.75 upon full subscription of the shares and full exercise of the issued warrants of series TO2.
The issues are treated as one resolution and are carried out with the issuance of so-called units. One (1) unit consists of one (1) share and one (1) warrant of series TO2.
The resolution shall further be subject to the following conditions:
To the extent allotment in any stage in accordance with the above cannot be made pro rata, allotment shall be made by drawing lots.
Other
The Board of Directors, or a person appointed by the Board of Directors, shall have the right to make such minor adjustments to the above resolution as may be required for registration with the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Euroclear Sweden AB.
Resolution pursuant to items 7 and 11 must be supported by shareholders representing no less than two-thirds of both the votes cast and the shares represented at the Extraordinary General Meeting.
At the time of issuance of this notice, the total number of shares in the company, as well as the total number of voting rights, amounts to 34,379,523. The company holds no treasury shares.
The Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer shall, if any shareholder so requests and the Board of Directors believes that it can be done without material harm to the company, provide information at the Extraordinary General Meeting about circumstances that may affect the evaluation of an item on the agenda and the company’s relation to other companies within the group.
The complete proposals for resolutions are set out under each item in this notice. The notice and a proxy form are available from the company and on its website stated below. Documents in accordance with Swedish Companies Act will be available from the company no later than two weeks prior to the Extraordinary General Meeting. The documents will also be available on the company’s website, www.nextcellpharma.com.
Copies of the above documents are also sent to the shareholders who so request and provide their postal address. The documents will also be presented at the Extraordinary General Meeting.
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Stockholm in April 2024
NextCell Pharma AB (publ)
The Board of Directors
For more information about NextCell Pharma, please contact
Mathias Svahn, CEO
Patrik Fagerholm, CFO
Tel: +46 8 735 5595
E-mail: info@nextcellpharma.com
Websites:
NextCell Pharma AB: www.nextcellpharma.com
Cellaviva Sverige: www.cellaviva.se
Cellaviva Danmark: www.cellaviva.dk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15255207/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextCellPharma
Certified Adviser
FNCA Sweden AB is assigned as Certified Adviser.
About NextCell Pharma AB
NextCell is a cell therapy company that is in phase 2 studies with the drug candidate ProTrans for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The focus is to obtain market approval of ProTrans via a phase 3 study. ProTrans is manufactured utilizing the patented platform technology for selection of optimal cells with potency to treat inflammatory disorders including autoimmune diseases. NextCell owns Cellaviva, the largest stem cell bank in the Nordics and QVance, a quality analysis CRO company in start up.