ESSENTIAL FACT SMU $0
SMUS.A
Registration in the Securities Registry No. 1076.
Santiago, May 15, 2023
Mrs. Solange Berstein Jáuregui
President
Financial Market Commission
Present
Ref: Distribution of interim dividend.
From our consideration:
By means of this letter, duly authorized for this purpose and pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 and the second paragraph of Article 10 of Law No. 18,045 of the Securities Market Law, and in General Rule No. 30 of the Financial Market Commission (hereinafter the “Commission”), I hereby inform you that, by resolution of the Board of Directors of SMU S.A. (hereinafter “the Company”), an open stock corporation registered in the Securities Registry under No. 1076, communicates as a material fact with respect to the Company, its business, its publicly offered securities or the offering thereof, the following resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, in an extraordinary meeting held today, May 15, 2023:
To distribute to all shareholders as an interim dividend out of the profits of fiscal year 2023, the total amount of $16,658,142,643, which corresponds to a dividend of $2.89043 per share. This interim dividend corresponds to 75% of the profits for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The payment of this dividend will be made as of June 5, 2023 to shareholders registered in the Company’s Shareholders’ Registry on the fifth business day prior to the date established for its payment.
The corresponding notice will be published on May 16, 2023 in the newspaper “La Tercera”, in its “El Pulso” segment.
In accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 660 of this Commission, we attach hereto Exhibit No. 1 with the pertinent information regarding the dividend.
Yours sincerely yours,
Álvez Saldías
General Manager
SMU S.A.
C.C.: Santiago Stock Exchange – Santiago Stock Exchange
Bolsa Electrónica de Chile, Chilean Stock Exchange
BICE Bank
Banco de Chile
CIRCULAR N° 660
FORM NO. 1
DISTRIBUTION OF DIVIDENDS
0.01 Original information: YES (yes/no)
1. Identification of the company and the movement
1.01 R.U.T.: 76.012.676-4
1.03 Name of the company SMU S.A.
1.04 Securities Reg. No.: 1076
1.05 Series affects: UNICA
1.06 Bag code: SMU
1.07 Indiv. of movement: 13 (1: Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting; 2: Shareholders’ Meeting; 3: Board of Directors’ Meeting).
2. Agreement and amount of the dividend
2.01 Date of agreement: 05/15/23
2.02 Making of agreement: 3 extraordinary
2.03 Dividend amount: $16,658,142,643
2.04 Currency type: $
3. Shares and shareholders with rights
3.01 Number of shares: 5,763,205,697 AA)
3.02 Deadline: 05/30/23 (DD MM YYYYY)
4. Nature of the dividend
4.01 Type of dividend: 1 (Compulsory or eventual minimum de-funding)
4.02 Year-end closing: 03/31/23 (DD MM YYYYY)
4.03 Form of payment: 1 (In cash)
5. Payment of the dividend in cash (either in cash or optionally in cash or shares).
5.01 Cash payment: $2.89043/acc.
5.02 Type of currency: $
5.03 Payment date: 05/06/23 (DD MM YYYYY)
6. Distribution of the optional dividend in shares
6.01 Option start date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.02 Option expiration date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.03 Title delivery date: (DD MM YYYYY)
6.04 Series to be opted: (only if the option is on shares of the issue itself)
6.05 Post-issue access: (only if the option is on shares of the issue itself)
6.06 R.U.T. soc. issuer: (only if the option is on shares owned by the company)
6.07 Bag code:
6.08 Shares factor: shares to be received for a share w/right
6.09 Share price:
6.10 Type of currency: $
7. Remarks
The reporting company, SMU S.A., is an open stock corporation.
The notice of this dividend will be published in the newspaper “La Tercera”, in its “El Pulso” section, on May 16, 2023.
The total amount of the dividend of Ch$16,658,142,643.- will be charged to the equity account Retained Earnings.
Shareholders may choose one of the following alternatives for the payment of dividends:
One) Deposit in a bank current account, whose holder is the shareholder.
Two) Deposit in a bank savings account held by the shareholder.
Three) Withdrawal of a virtual sight voucher at any of the branches of Banco Crédito Inversiones, Bci, throughout the country, for a period of 90 days.
In the case of the collection modalities of numbers One) and Two), the checking or savings bank accounts indicated by the shareholder may be from any place in the country, in order to facilitate the collection of dividends to those shareholders residing outside the city of Santiago.
Likewise, in the case of Modalities One) and Two), for security reasons, the verification of the accounts by the corresponding banks may be requested, so that if any objection is raised, the dividend will be paid according to the modality indicated in Number Three), that is, with a virtual demand voucher.
Shareholders who have not opted for one of the special payment methods in numbers One or Two), will be paid in accordance with number Three) in the aforementioned manner.
The method of payment chosen by each shareholder shall remain in effect for all dividend payments, as long as he/she does not express his/her intention to change it in writing to the company.
For all of the above purposes, the method in effect five business days prior to the date on which the dividend is to be paid shall apply.
As an additional safeguard measure, sight vouchers may only be withdrawn personally by the shareholders or by their duly accredited agents or legal representatives.
Link to the file in CMFChile: https://www.cmfchile.cl/sitio/aplic/serdoc/ver_sgd.php?s567=d0e49c991516ee55a868aec8550888b3VFdwQmVVMTZRVEZOUkVsM1QxUkZNazEzUFQwPQ==&secuencia=-1&t=1684204201
