OHL México, S.A.B. de C.V. announced that Board of Directors, bearing in mind that Mr. Valentín Diez Morodo, Jesús Reyes Heroles and Carlos Ruiz Sacristán have held their role as independent directors during the last five years and given the new challenges that the company is facing upon completion of the audits that were conducted at the request of the Board as well as the recommendations of the company's Audit Committee for the convenience of reconfiguring the Board of Directors and the composition of its Audit and Corporate Practices Committees, and with an aim to strengthen the corporate governance, has agreed unanimously: to accept the resignation submitted by the aforementioned independent directors and to appoint as new independent directors of the company, until the next general shareholders meeting is held to ratify such appointments, Mr. Carlos Cardenas Guzman, Jose Guillermo Kareh Aarun and Hugo Antonio Franck Cabrera. In deciding these appointments, the Board has assessed and confirmed the fulfillment of the independence conditions of the new directors.
Obrascon Huarte Lain SA (OHL) is a Spain-based company engaged in the construction and engineering sectors. Its activities are structured into three segments: Concessions, Engineering and construction, as well as Development. The Concessions division focuses on the promotion, development and management of a range of transportation infrastructure, such as highways, railways, airports and ports. The Engineering and construction division comprises three business lines: Construction, which is responsible for building civil infrastructure; Industrial, which is involved in the construction, maintenance and operation of industrial plants, and Services, which includes cleaning and maintenance of buildings and public roads, waste management and green area conservation. The Development division promotes and manages tourist resorts and commercial centers. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is present in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. It is controlled by Grupo Villar Mir SAU.