ESSENTIAL FACT
ESSBIO S.A.
Securities Registry N* 1.119
Concepción, April 28, 2022
Mrs.
Solange Berstein Jáuregui
President
Financial Market Commission
Av. Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins N* 1449, 1% floor
SANTIAGO
Ref.: Resolutions of the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting.
Dear Sir or Madam:
I hereby inform you that at the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting
of ESSBIO S.A. -hereinafter “ESSBIO”- celebrated with this date, the subjects of
These types of meetings and in particular the following resolutions were adopted:
1.
The Annual Report, Annual Consolidated Financial Statements and Auditors’ reports were approved.
External corresponding to the year ended December 31, 2021;
Of the profits of the year 2021 that amounted to $ $ 18,465,920,616,=, it was agreed to distribute the
100% of them, and consequently pay a mandatory and additional minimum final dividend
of $ 0.698255,= per share.
The payment will be made as of May 26, to the shareholders registered in the respective registry
the fifth working day preceding the appointed date.
It was set as a dividend policy for the year 2022 to distribute 30% of the net profits of the
exercise, notwithstanding that it will ultimately correspond to the respective Ordinary Meeting to decide on the
distribution of such dividends. Notwithstanding the foregoing, according to the law the Board of Directors is
empowered to approve provisional dividends to the extent that there are profits likely to be
distributed and that distribution is consistent with investment needs and compliance
of the financial indicators committed by ESSBIO;
3.
The election of the Board of Directors was made, which will remain in its positions for a period of two years,
the following ladies and gentlemen were elected as Directors:
Olga Margarita Botero Peláez
Susana Jimenez Schuster
Stacey Leanne Purcell
Stephen Best
Alejandro Ferreiro Yazigi
Jorge Lesser Garcia – Huidobro
Michael R. Niggli, and
or Juan Ignacio Parot Becker;
The remuneration of the Board of Directors was approved;
For the year 2022, Deloitte Auditores y Consultores Limitada was appointed as an auditing firm
external and as Risk Classifiers to Feller – Risk Classifier Rate and ICR Risk Classifier
Risk;
Reported on the related operations, carried out during the year 2021, and
The newspaper “El Sur” was designated for the publications of balance sheet, summons to meetings and payment of
Dividends.
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Full copy of the minutes with the details of the agreements taken at the Meeting will be
timely forwarded via SEIL to the Commission over which you preside.
cc:
Yours faithfully,
Cristian Vergara Castillo
General Manager
Stock Exchanges.
Bondholder representatives.
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