Press Release

Baar, 24 April 2017 - ALTIN AG (SIX: ALTN)

The ordinary shareholders' meeting will take place on:

Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 10.00am (Swiss time)
(Doors open at 9.30am)
City Garden Hotel, Metallstrasse 20, 6300 Zug

The ordinary shareholders' meeting will be held in German

A Agenda

  1. Approval of the business report 2016 (statutory financial statements as well as financial statements [IFRS]) and resolution on the compensation report 2016
  2. Allocation on retained earnings
  3. Resolution on the distribution of a dividend
  4. Discharge of the members of the board of directors and the CEO
  5. Elections
  6. Approval of the remuneration of the board of directors and the CEO
  7. Amendment of the Articles of Association - Change of Domicile

B Notes on the organization of the ordinary shareholders' meeting

1. Business report 2016

The business report for the year 2106 (incl. the annual report, the annual accounts and the financials statements [IFRS], the compensation report as well as the reports of the auditors will be available for inspection as of 24 April 2017 at the registered office of the Company. Each shareholder may require that a copy of the annual report be sent to him. The business report can also be downloaded from the company's website at www.altin.ch | Investors | Financial Reports and Updates | 2016.

2. Admission to the ordinary shareholders' meeting

Registered shareholders registered in the share register up to and including 4 May 2017, 5pm Swiss time with voting rights will receive - together with the invitation to the ordinary shareholders' meeting - a reply card to order admission cards and voting papers. The reply card must be received by Computershare Schweiz AG, c/o Altin AG or the independent proxy, no later than 12 May 2017.

No entries will be made in the share register in the period from 4 May 2017, 5pm to the end of the ordinary shareholders' meeting.

CDI attendants who are CREST members holding CDIs as beneficial owners and CDI attendants who are beneficial owners of CDIs holding CDIs through a CREST member as nominee, are entitled to attend the ordinary shareholders' meeting and to cast their votes where they or their nominees are the subject of an omnibus proxy to be given in their favor by CREST International Nominees Limited (and sent to the Company).

Registered CDI attendants registered in the CDI register maintained by CRESTCo Limited up to and including 4 May 2017 will receive, together with the invitation to the ordinary shareholders' meeting, a reply card that the beneficial owner may use by not later than 12 May 2017 to register for attendance at the ordinary shareholders' meeting by facsimile (+41 62 205 7750). All nominees are requested to forward this information immediately to the beneficial owners of the CDIs.

Please note that, in addition to returning the reply card, to be eligible to attend and vote at the ordinary shareholders' meeting (in person or by proxy) CDI attendants must also transfer their holding of CDIs to an escrow balance in CREST by inputting a transfer to Escrow instruction ('TTE') in CREST to settle by 6.00 pm (UK time) on 12 May 2017 in accordance with the instructions set out in the Corporate Action Bulletin published by CREST on or around 24 April 2017 (and which is available on the CREST website). The CDIs transferred shall remain in escrow to the end of the ordinary shareholders' meeting.

Although CDI holders will retain beneficial ownership of the CDIs transferred to escrow, such CDIs will be held by CRESTCo Limited under the control of and to the order of the Company (and will not, therefore, be available for any transaction or charging purposes) until they are released from escrow, which will take place automatically as soon as reasonably practicable after the commencement of dealings on 17 May 2017.

3. Proxy

Shareholders with voting rights and CDI holders, who are unable to attend the ordinary shareholders' meeting in person, may be presented as follows:

  • By the legal representative or another shareholder entitled to vote: The power of attorney is to be given either directly on the reply card or on the admission card ordered by the shareholders.
  • By the independent voting proxy Caminada Treuhand AG Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 27, 8032 Zürich: The full power of attorney may be given to the independent proxy by submitting the voting instructions online at investor.sherpany.com or alternatively on the reply card, that needs to be legally signed. vorgenommen oder alternativ auf dem Anmeldeformular entsprechend vermerkt und dieses Formular rechtsgültig unterzeichnet wird.

4. Online-Voting

Altin offers its shareholders the opportunity to register themselves on the online platform Sherpany and to give electronically power of attorney to a third party or instructions to the independent proxy or to order the access card. Shareholders who have not yet registered on this online platform can register using the enclosed documents.

In the case of online voting via investor.sherpany.com, voting and/or voting instructions must also be made no later than 12 May 2017 at 11:59 pm and can be changed until then at any time.

In case where the independent proxy receives voting instructions electronically and in writing, only the electronic power of attorney is taken into account.

5. Legal Notice

Shareholders who make use of the Internet-based options in connection with the performance of the ordinary shareholders' meeting bear the associated risk in the exercise of their shareholder rights themselves.

Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an:

Thomas Amstutz
Tel. +41 (0)41 760 62 60
info@altin.ch

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