Launch of an eighth Employee Share Ownership Plan
Paris, September 14, 2021 – Capgemini announces the launch of an eighth Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP).
The new employee share ownership plan is offered to approximately 96% of the employees and is part of the Group’s policy to associate all employees with its development and performance. The employee shareholding resulting from previous ESOPs represents 6.9% of Capgemini SE’s share capital. This eighth ESOP will be implemented through a capital increase reserved for the Capgemini employees for a maximum of 4,000,000 shares (i.e. 2.37% of outstanding shares), with settlement-delivery no later than December 16, 2021.
As in 2020, the Board of Directors of Capgemini SE at its meeting of June 16 and 17, 2021 decided to authorize a dedicated share buyback envelope. This envelope could be used within the limits of the authorization granted by the Shareholders’ Meeting of May 20, 2021 and within the next 12 months[1] to neutralize all or part of the dilutive effect of this capital increase.
According to the planned schedule, the reservation period will be opened from September 15 to October 4, 2021 (inclusive) and will be followed by a subscription/revocation period from November 8 to November 10, 2021 (inclusive). The subscription price of the new shares will be set on November 3, 2021 and the capital increase will be completed on December 16, 2021.
Employees will be able to subscribe to Capgemini shares within the framework of subscription leveraged and guaranteed formulas. These formulas will allow employees, until the shares become available, to benefit from a guarantee on the amount invested into this plan. The voting rights will be exercised by the holders who – depending on the formula and the context – will be an FCPE, the employees via direct shareholding and/or the financial institution structuring the offer or its counterparties.
The implementation of the leveraged guaranteed offering implies hedging transactions entered into by the financial institution structuring the offer (Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank), on market or off-market, through purchases and/or sales of shares, purchase of call options and/or any other transactions, at any time, including during the Reference Price[2] fixing period, i.e. from October 6 to November 2, 2021, and over the entire course of the plan, i.e. until December 16, 2026.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 290,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering, and platforms. The Group reported in 2020 global revenues of €16 billion.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of offers to subscribe to Capgemini shares. The capital increase of Capgemini reserved for employees will be conducted only in countries where such an offering has been registered with or notified to the competent local authorities and/or following the approval of a prospectus by the competent local authorities or in consideration of an exemption of the requirement to prepare a prospectus or to proceed to a registration or notification of the offering.
More generally, the offering will only be conducted in countries where all required filing procedures and/or notifications have been completed and the required authorizations have been obtained.
[1] As from June 17, 2021, subject to renewal by the Shareholders’ Meeting of the share buyback authorization currently in force.
[2] The Reference Price corresponds, in accordance with the provisions of Article L.3332-19 of the French Labor Code, to the arithmetic average of the volume-weighted average daily trading prices of Capgemini SE shares on Compartment A of Euronext Paris over the 20 trading days preceding the setting of the subscription price.