ESSENTIAL FACT
SMU S.A
Registration in the Securities Registry No. 1076.
Santiago, August 16, 2022
Mrs. Solange Berstein Jáuregui
President
Financial Market Commission
Present
Ref: Distribution of interim dividend.
From our consideration:
By means of the present, duly authorized for this purpose and by virtue of the provisions of Article 9 and second paragraph of Article 10 of Law No. 18,045, on the Securities Market, and in General Standard No. 30 of the Commission for the Financial Market (hereinafter the “Commission”), I inform you that, by resolution of the Board of Directors of SMU S.A. (hereinafter “the Company”), adopted at an extraordinary meeting held today, August 16, 2022, the following was agreed:
Distribute to all shareholders as a provisional dividend the total amount of Ch$16,267,800,721.-, which corresponds to a dividend of Ch$2.82270 per share, charged to the profits of the year 2022. This provisional dividend corresponds to 75% of the profits of the second quarter of this year. The payment of this dividend will be made as of September 6, 2022 to the shareholders registered in the Shareholders’ Registry of the Company on the fifth business day prior to the date established for its payment.
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,
Marcelo Galvez 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
Original information: YES (yes/no)
Identification of the company and the movement
UK: 76.012.676-4
Name of the company SMU S.A.
Reg. Number of Values: 1.076
Stock exchange code: SMU
Agreement and amount of dividend
Date of agreement: 16/08/22
Taking of the agreement: 3
Dividend amount: $16,267,800,721
Shares and shareholders with rights
Number of shares: 5,772,576,856
Nature of the dividend
Dividend type: 1
Year-end: 30/06/22 (DD MM AA)
Payment method: 1.
0.02 Shipping date: 16/08/22 (D MM YYY)
1.02 Date of sending form. ORIGINAL: 16/08/22 (D MM YYY)
1.05 Series affects: UNICA
1.07 Indiv. mov.: 10
(1: General Board of Action; 2: Extraordinary Board of Action; 3: Board Meeting).
2.04 Currency type: $
3.02 Deadline: 31/08/22 (DD MM AA)
(1: Provisional; 2: Minimum mandatory def.; 3: Additional or eventual definitive).
(1: In money; 2: Optional in money or shares of the issue itself; 3: Optional in money or shares of another company; 4: Other modality).
CIRCULAR N° 660
5. Payment of the dividend in cash (either in cash or optionally in cash or shares).
5.01 Cash payment: $2.82270/acc.
5.02 Type of currency: $
5.03 Date of payment: 06/09/22 (DD MM AA)
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 shares: (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 publication of the notice of this dividend will be made in the newspaper “La Tercera”, in its section “El Pulso”, on August 18, 2022.
The total amount of the dividend of Ch$16,267,800,721 will be charged to the Accumulated Profits equity account.
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, the vouchers may only be withdrawn personally by the shareholders or by their duly accredited agents or legal representatives.
Regarding the specific tax effect that the agreed dividend has for the shareholder, it is reported that said dividends are subject to Complementary or Additional Global Tax, without first category credit.
Statement: “The information contained in this form is the faithful expression of truth, for which I assume the corresponding legal responsibility.”
Marcelo Galvez Saldías
General Manager
SMU S.A.
Link to file in CMFChile: https://www.cmfchile.cl/sitio/aplic/serdoc/ver_sgd.php?s567=80ad72fa9cd1333ae49a894e23cdf458VFdwQmVVMXFRVFJOUkUxNFQxUnJNazUzUFQwPQ==&secuencia=-1&t=1682376108
