The Bank’s 2024 annual general meeting (AGM) will be held on Wednesday, 20 March 2024, at 9:30 a.m. in Victoriahallen, at the Stockholmsmässan exhibition facility, Mässvägen 1, Älvsjö, Sweden.
Conditions for participation
Shareholders wishing to attend the AGM must be entered in the register of shareholders kept by Euroclear Sweden AB on Tuesday, 12 March 2024, and give notice of their attendance by Thursday, 14 March 2024 at the latest.
Notice to attend
Notice is to be sent via this website Opens in a new window, via email proxy@computershare.se, by telephone on 08 518 01 553 (from outside Sweden +46 8 518 01 553), or by letter to Computershare AB, Handelsbankens årsstämma, Box 5267, 102 46 Stockholm.
Shareholders who have appointed representatives must in addition to give notice of attendance, issue a written, dated power of attorney for the representative. In addition to a power of attorney, representatives of legal entities must also present an original version or a certified copy of the legal entity’s registration certificate or similar documentation of authority. These documents must prove the authority of the person who has signed the power of attorney to appoint the representative for the legal entity. In order to facilitate entry at the meeting, the original version of the power of attorney and other documentation of authority should be sent to the Bank at the address above well in advance of the AGM.
Shareholder whose shares are nominee-registered (in a custody account) via a bank or other nominee must temporarily re-register the shares in his/her own name in the Euroclear Sweden AB register of shareholders (“registration of shares for voting rights”). Shareholders must notify the nominee of this in good time. Registrations of shares for voting rights that have been requested by shareholders in such time as to be completed by the nominee no later than Thursday, 14 March 2024 will be respected when the register of shareholders is drawn up. Shareholders must also register for attendance in accordance with what is stated above.
Notices of attendance received in time will be confirmed by the delivery of a personal entrance card, digitally to attendees who have registered an email address, and by post to other attendees. The entrance card must be shown at the entrance to the meeting venue.