ESSENTIAL FACT
SMU S.A.
REGISTRATION REGISTRY OF SECURITIES N° 1076
Santiago, August 17, 2022
Mrs. Solange Berstein Jáuregui,
President of the Financial Market Commission,
Ref.: Essential Fact
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 communicate to you, as an essential fact with respect to the company SMU S.A. (hereinafter the “Company”), its business or its public offering securities, the following:
That by means of an essential event dated August 16, 2022, the Company communicated an agreement of the Board of Directors to 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.
On that occasion, in point 3.01 of Form No. 1, “Number of shares”, the amount of 5,772,576,856 was reported as the total number of shares that access the right to receive the agreed benefit, having to report as a total number of shares 5,763,205,697. The foregoing is due to the execution of the share buyback program carried out by the Company. To this end, Form No. 1, rectified in this regard, is attached hereto.
Without further ado, he greets you very sincerely,
Marcelo Galvez Saldías
General Manager
SMU S.A.
Dc. Santiago Stock Exchange
Electronic Stock Exchange of Chile
Valparaiso Brokers Exchange
Banco Bice as Representative of Bondholders
Banco de Chile as Representative of Bondholders
CIRCULAR N° 660
FORM NO. 1
DISTRIBUTION OF DIVIDENDS
Original information: NO (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: 5,763,205,697.
Nature of the dividend
Dividend type: 1
Year-end: 30/06/22 (DD MM AA)
Payment method: 1.
Shipping date: 17/08/22 (D MM YYY)
Series affects: UNICA
Single. mov.: 10
(1: General Board of Action; 2: Extraordinary Board of Action; 3: Board Meeting).
Currency type: $
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).
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 modalities of collection of numbers One) and Two) the current or savings bank accounts indicated by the shareholder may be from any place in the country, in order to facilitate the collection of their 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 a special payment method of numbers One or Two) will be paid in accordance with that of number Three) in the manner set out above.
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 seen 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
Link to file in CMFChile: https://www.cmfchile.cl/sitio/aplic/serdoc/ver_sgd.php?s567=9fc5a9b11df0047f58d9b77e76b3dbb2VFdwQmVVMXFRVFJOUkUxNVRXcEZlRTVCUFQwPQ==&secuencia=-1&t=1682376108
