The Management Board of Globe Trade Center S.A. ("Company") hereby informs that on 13 March 2024, it received complete written notice from Aletheia Investment AG (registered seat: Zug, c/o Badertscher Rechtsenwalte AG, Grafenauweg 6, 6302 Zug, Switzerland; registration number: CHE-403.604.202, represented by: Ferdinand Bardoly-Kuzmos chairman of the Board, “Aletheia”) appointing Dr. Leonz Meyer as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Company, effective on the date of receipt of the complete written notice.

Pursuant to the deposit certificate attached to the notice, Aletheia holds 28,718,871 shares in the Company, which constitute 5.001% of the Company’s share capital, and therefore is entitled to appoint one member of the Supervisory Board of the Company pursuant to Article 9 point 1 letter a) in connection with Article 9 point 1 letter b) of the Articles of Association of the Company.

Since 2015 Dr. Leonz Meyer acted uniquely as Board Member of various Swiss companies and foundations (Getinge Schweiz AG, St. Claraspital Group, Charles River Laboratories Switzerland AG, PPD Switzerland GmbH, Wolford (Schweiz) AG, Street One, CECIL Ecopetrol Capital AG and St. Clara-Stiftung). Dr. Meyer used to work in an international environment always in the role of making sure that Corporate Governance, Legal Compliance, Risk Assessment are respected. Between 1990-2014 he worked as attorney at law in Basel, Brussels, London, since 2000 in Zurich and was founder and managing Partner of Eversheds Switzerland (law firm).

Dr. Leonz Meyer hold Dr. of Law (magna cum laude) and Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS): Finance for lawyers. In 2000 Dr. Meyer completed the LL.M. in International Law, University of Zurich.

According to his statement, Dr. Leonz Meyer is not entered in the register of insolvent debtors maintained in compliance with the 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 with respect 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. Dr. Leonz Meyer also confirmed that he meets independence criteria of a supervisory board member set out by the European Commission in Annex II to the Commission Recommendation of 15 February 2005 concerning non-executive or supervisory directors of stock exchange companies and committees of the (supervisory) board (Official Journal of the EU.L.05.52.51) and additional requirements indicated in the Best Practices of Companies Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Legal basis: Art. 5 point 5 of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 29 March 2018 concerning the submission of current periodical information by the securities' issuers and the conditions of recognizing as equal the information demanded by the national lawful regulation of a country which does not hold the membership in European Union

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