EQS-Adhoc: AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA resolves retirement of 1,500,000 treasury shares and is starting the Share Buyback Program 2023 for an amount of up to EUR 30 million

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA resolves retirement of 1,500,000 treasury shares and is starting the Share Buyback Program 2023 for an amount of up to EUR 30 million

Grünwald, January 23, 2023 – Exercising the authorization granted by the Company’s Annual General Meeting on June 21, 2022, the Managing Directors of the general partner of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN DE000A0JK2A8) (the "Company") resolved today to retire 1,500,000 treasury shares in bearer form that had been purchased by the company under the share buyback programs 2021 and 2022 by way of the simplified procedure according to Section 71 (1) no. 8 sentence 6, 237 (3) no. 3, 278 (3) of the German Stock Corporations Act (Aktiengesetz, AktG). This corresponds to approx. 5.21 percent of the company’s share capital.

The retirement of the shares will not entail a capital reduction and therefore the imputed nominal value of the shares will increase accordingly.

After the shares are retired, the share capital of the Company will still be EUR 31,680,000.00 and will be divided into 27,269,944 bearer shares in the form of no-par-value shares. The retirement will be conducted in the coming weeks.

After the retirement, the Company will still hold a total of 587,391 treasury shares.

Exercising the authorization granted by the Company’s Annual General Meeting on June 21, 2022, the Managing Directors of the general partner of the Company resolved today to implement a share buyback program in the amount of up to EUR 30 million (excluding acquisition expenses) (the "Share Buyback Program 2023"). Within the Share Buyback Program 2023, it is planned to buy back up to 1,500,000 of the Company's shares, in the time from January 30, 2023, to January 29, 2024.

The shares acquired may be used for all purposes permitted under the authorization of the Company’s Annual General Meeting on June 21, 2022, in particular also for the retirement of the shares.

The share buyback will be carried out in accordance with the Safe Harbour Rules defined under Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council dated April 16, 2014, in conjunction with the provisions of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of the Commission dated March 8, 2016.

The Company will announce further details separately prior to the commencement of the Share Buyback Program 2023.

1540633  23-Jan-2023 CET/CEST