Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance

Good Corporate Governance is deeply rooted in the corporate culture of Mutares. It has been an integral part of Mutares´ business practice for many years.

The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of Mutares SE & Co. KGaA are committed to the principles of a modern Corporate Governance.

An active, open and transparent communication, a responsible risk management as well as an intensive and continuous dialog between Executive Board and Supervisory Board are a matter of course for us, as private equity master of special situations.

Directors’ Dealings

The reporting and disclosure duty applies to members of the Executive Board and of the Supervisory Board, and to persons closely associated with them. It also applies to legal entities, other companies, or organizations acting by order of or in the interests of the aforementioned persons. Transactions involving financial instruments of Mutares SE & Co. KGaA or derivatives of these financial instruments must be reported. Any subsequent transactions once a total transaction volume of EUR 20,000.00 has been reached within a calendar year must be reported. The transactions of each person are to be considered separately.

Directors’ Dealings

Publication of Directors’ Dealings pursuant to § 15a WpHG

Voting Rights Notifications

Please note that the voting rights notification must also be transmitted to Mutares as an XML data set (XML – Extensible Markup Language). The XML data set will be made available by the Reporting and Publication Platform of BaFin (“MVP“) via the MVP after the voting rights notification has been transmitted to BaFin.

In the event of a technical malfunction of the electronic systems of Mutares relevant for the receipt of voting rights notifications, which makes an electronic transmission of the voting rights notification impossible, the transmission of the voting rights notification to Mutares must be made in writing by postal mail or fax (+49 89 9292776 22) within the deadline.

BaFin provides further information on voting rights notifications and the MVP at www.bafin.de.

Notification

We kindly ask the notifying parties who are obliged to notify pursuant to Sections 33 et seq. WpHG to submit their voting rights notification in electronic form to Mutares at the following address:
[email protected]

Share Buyback Program

Munich, 17 September, 2020 – The Management Board of the General Partner of Mutares SE & Co KGaA (ISIN: DE000A2NB650) (the “Company”) has decided, with the consent of the Supervisory Board of the General Partner, to launch a share buyback program in the amount of up to EUR 2.5 million (excluding transaction costs) (“share buyback program 2020/I”).

The share buyback program 2020/I follows the authorization of the Company’s Annual General Meeting of 23 May, 2019, according to which treasury shares of the Company may be acquired in addition to a sale via the stock exchange or via an offer to all shareholders for any permissible purpose, but in particular also for the purpose of redemption and for the offer and transfer against non-cash contributions in the case of company acquisitions.

Share Buyback

Information on share buyback programs in recent years.

Mutares UK Tax Strategy

The following Tax Strategy outlines how the Mutares UK companies (“Mutares UK”), members of the global Mutares SE & Co. KGaA group (“Mutares”), adhere to the UK Finance Act 2016 (Paragraph 22 of Schedule 19) requirements of preparing and publishing a tax strategy.

As a result, both Mutares UK and Mutares consider the publication of this Tax Strategy as compliance with, and fulfilment of, its duties resultant of the Finance Act 2016 (Paragraph 22 of Schedule 19). This Tax Strategy has been approved by the Board of Directors, was published on 17 January 2025, applies to the accounting period ended 31 December 2024, will be periodically reviewed and shall remain in force until further updated.

Tax Strategy

You can find the Tax Strategy for Mutares UK below.