At today’s ordinary Shareholder’s Meeting of HBM Healthcare Investments Ltd the Shareholders approved all proposals submitted by the Board of Directors. A total of about 42% of all shares were represented at the Shareholders’ Meeting.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Members of the Board of Directors as well as the Members of the Compensation Committee were all re-elected for a further term of one year. The Shareholders also approved the proposed compensation to the Board of Directors and to the Management.

The Shareholders’s Meeting also approved a partial payback of nominal value of CHF 7.50 per share. The cash payment will be made on 12 September 2019, and registered shares entitled to receive the distribution will be traded for the last time on 9 September 2019 (as of 10 September 2019 without the distribution entitlement, ex-date).

Further, the Shareholders agreed to a new share buy-back programme of up to a maximum of 10% of the shares outstanding, in order to cancel those shares as part of a capital reduction.

The presentation shown at the Shareholders’ Meeting is available on the Company’s website http://hbmhealthcare.com/en/investors/information.

Contact
For further information, please contact Dr Andreas Wicki on +41 41 710 75 77, or at andreas.wicki@hbmhealthcare.com.