Based on public information available to date, the allocation of the share capital of the Company following the Rights Issue is set out as below: Shareholders Number of ordinary shares % of share capital Number of exercisable voting rights % of exercisable voting rights1 Participating Creditors2 44,586,077,978 70.58% 44,586,077,978 70.58% Employees3 2,915,492 0.00% 2,915,492 0.00% Board of Directors4 2,432,876,880 3.85% 2,432,876,880 3.85% Treasury Shares 77,312 0.00% 0 0.00% Others5 16,153,099,323 25.57% 16,153,099,323 25.57% TOTAL 63,175,046,985 100.00% 63,174,969,673 100.00% Implementation of the financial restructuring plan will result in a massive issue of new shares and a substantial dilution of Atos existing shareholders that could have a very unfavorable impact on the market price of the share As mentioned by the Company in its press release of December 2, 2024, post completion of the Rights Issue, the new shares subscribed by the creditors, as a consequence of the exercise of the backstop, represent c.70.6% of total shares, corresponding to a substantial dilution of the existing shareholders.
Risk Factors Investors’ attention is drawn to the risk relating to Atos described in paragraph 7.2 "Risk Factors” of the 2023 Atos Universal Registration Document, as updated by Chapter 2 "Risk Factors” of the Amendment and Chapter 1.2 of the Supplement, the risk factors relating to the Rights Issue or the New Shares mentioned in section 2 "Risk Factors” of the Securities Note, as updated by Chapter 3.1 of the Supplement, before making any investment decision.* Atos SE confirms that information that could be qualified as inside information within the meaning of Regulation No.596/2014 of 16 April 2014 on market abuse and that may have been given on a confidential basis to its financial creditors has been published to the market, either in the past or in the context of this press release, with the aim of reestablishing equal access to information relating to the Atos Group between the investors.* *** Disclaimer This document must not be published, released or distributed, directly or indirectly, in the United States, Canada, Japan or Australia.
As a result, the Rights Issue was subscribed for a definitive total amount of €233,332,767.7659 (including issue premium), representing an issuance of 63,062,910,207 new shares (the "New Shares”) at a subscription price of €0.0037 per share (including, as a reminder, €0.0001 par value per share and €0.0036 issue premium), broken-down as follows: a subscription on an irreducible and reducible basis (à titre irréductible et à titre réductible) of 18,476,832,229 New Shares as part of the offering, for a total subscription amount of €68,364,279.2473, comprising: 15,443,618,322 New Shares subscribed on an irreducible basis (à titre irréductible), for a total subscription amount (including issue premium) of €57,141,387.7914; and3,033,213,907 New Shares subscribed on a reducible basis (à titre réductible), for a total subscription amount (including issue premium) of €11,222,891.4559; This includes the New Shares subscribed by Philippe Salle, Chairman of the Board of Directors and future Chief Executive Officer of the Company, who subscribed, in accordance with his subscription commitment, 2,432,432,432 New Shares, representing a total amount of €9 million.a subscription of 44,586,077,978 New Shares as a result of the exercise of the backstop commitments, for a total subscription amount of €164,968,488.5186, comprising: 20,270,270,176 New Shares subscribed in cash by the participating bondholders (in proportion of their final commitment to finance the new preferred bond financings), in accordance with their subscription commitment under the first-rank subscription guarantee of the Rights Issue (the "First-Rank Subscription Guarantee”), corresponding to an amount (including issue premium) of approximately €75 million; and 24,315,807,802 New Shares subscribed by the participating creditors, in accordance with their subscription commitment under the second-rank subscription guarantee of the Rights Issue (the "Second-Rank Subscription Guarantee”), corresponding to an amount (including issue premium) of €89,968,488.8674, by equitization of an equivalent portion of the unsecured debt they held in proportion of their definitive participation in the new secured financings and the First-Rank Subscription Guarantee.
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