Banco de Chile
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Santiago, January 26, 2023.
0026658
Mrs. Solange Berstein Jáuregui
President
Financial Market Commission
Present.
Ref: ESSENTIAL FACT
Madam President:
In accordance with the provisions of Articles 9 and 10 of Law No. 18,045 and Chapter 18-10 of the Updated Collection of Standards for Banks, I inform as an Essential Fact that in Ordinary Session No. BCH 2,983, dated January 26, 2023, the Board of Directors of Banco de Chile agreed to summon an Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting for March 23, 2023 in order to propose, Among other matters, the following distribution of profits for the year ended December 31, 2022:
a) Deduct and withhold from the profit of the year, an amount equivalent to the correction of the value of the paid-up capital and reserves according to the variation of the Consumer Price Index occurred between November 2021 and November 2022, amounting to the sum of Ch$542,504,045,836, which will be added to the account of retained earnings from previous years.
b) Distribute in the form of a dividend the balance of the remaining profit, corresponding to a dividend of Ch$8.58200773490 to each of the 101,017,081,114 shares of the Bank.
Consequently, the distribution as a dividend of 61.5% of the profits for the year ended December 31, 2022 is proposed.
Greetings to you,
Eduardo [TO ME]
General Manager
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