The Management Board of Globe Trade Centre S.A. (the “Company”) hereby announces that on 13 July 2015 it received a written statement of LSREF III GTC Investments B.V., with its registered seat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at Herikerbergweg 238, 1101 CM (the “Entitled Shareholder”), according to which the Entitled Shareholder, pursuant to sections 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3 and 7.1.7 of the articles of association of the Company:
(i) dismissed Michael Damnitz from the function of a member of the supervisory board of the Company; and
(ii) appointed Klaus Helmrich as a member of the supervisory board of the Company.
Pursuant to its statement and the deposit certificate attached thereto, the Entitled Shareholder holds 194,078,187 shares in the Company, which constitute 55.24% of the Company’s share capital and entitle the holder thereof to 55.24% of the votes at the general meeting of the Company. Consequently, the Entitled Shareholder exceeds the Initial Threshold (within the meaning of section 7.1.1 of the Company’s articles of association) and nine further Appointing Thresholds (within the meaning of section 7.1.1 of the Company’s articles of association).
Klaus Helmrich has more than 15 years of experience with mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. After 3 years at the international law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and 2 years at the international law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP, he joined Hudson Advisors Germany GmbH in 2005. As Director and Senior Counsel he focuses on transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions and debt restructuring. Klaus Helmrich studied law at the universities in Heidelberg, Lausanne and Bonn and, in addition, he holds an Executive MBA degree from the University of Münster.
According his declaration, Klaus Helmrich is not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained pursuant to the Polish Act on the National Court Register dated 20 August 1997, does not perform any activities outside of the Company’s business which could be considered competitive thereto, does not participate in any competitive business either as a partner in a civil partnership or any other type of partnership, and is not a member of the authorities of any competitive company or any other competitive entity.
Legal grounds: § 5 section 21 and 22 of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 19 February 2009 concerning the submission of current periodical information by securities' issuers and the conditions of recognizing as equivalent the information required by the national lawful regulations of a country which is not a member of the European Union.