Ericsson’s annual general meeting 2022

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on March 29, 2022. Due to COVID-19, the AGM 2022 was conducted without the physical presence of shareholders, representatives and third parties and the meeting was conducted as a digital meeting with online participation. Shareholders were also able to exercise their voting rights by post before the meeting.

Adoption of the Profit and Loss Statements and the Balance Sheets

The AGM resolved to adopt the Profit and Loss Statement and the Balance Sheet for the Parent Company as well as the Consolidated Profit and Loss Statement and the Consolidated Balance Sheet for the Group for 2021.

Dividend
The proposed dividend of SEK 2.50 per share was approved by the AGM. The dividend will be paid in two equal installments; SEK 1.25 per share with the record date Thursday, March 31, 2022, and SEK 1.25 per share with the record date Friday, September 30, 2022. Euroclear Sweden AB is expected to disburse SEK 1.25 per share on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, and SEK 1.25 per share on Wednesday, October 5, 2022.

Remuneration report
The AGM resolved to adopt the Board of Directors’ remuneration report for 2021.

Discharge from liability
It was recorded that shareholders representing at least one tenth of all of the shares in the Company voted against discharge from liability of the Board of Directors and the President for the financial year 2021.

Board of Directors
The AGM elected Board members in accordance with the proposal of the Nomination Committee. Ronnie Leten was re-elected as Chair of the Board and Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Jan Carlson, Nora Denzel, Börje Ekholm, Eric A. Elzvik, Kurt Jofs, Ronnie Leten, Kristin S. Rinne, Helena Stjernholm and Jacob Wallenberg were re-elected as Board members. Carolina Dybeck Happe was elected new Board member. It was also noted that the unions have appointed Torbjörn Nyman, Anders Ripa and Kjell-Åke Soting employee representatives in the Board with Ulf Rosberg, Loredana Roslund and Annika Salomonsson as deputies.

Board of Directors’ Fees
The AGM resolved on fees to the Board of Directors, in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal. Yearly fee to the Chair of the Board of SEK 4,375,000, and fees to other non-employee members of the Board, elected by the AGM, of SEK 1,100,000 each. Fees for Committee work to non-employee members of the Committees, elected by the AGM, were approved as follows: SEK 475,000 to the Chair of the Audit and Compliance Committee and SEK 275,000 to each of the other members of the Audit and Compliance Committee, SEK 205,000 to each of the Chairs of the Finance Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Technology and Science Committee, and SEK 180,000 to each of the other members of the Finance Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Technology and Science Committee.

The AGM approved the Nomination Committee’s proposal to enable payment of part of the fees to the members of the Board for the Board assignment, in the form of synthetic shares.

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