Eurazeo held its Combined Shareholders’ Meeting today chaired by Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. It was streamed live on the company’s website, where a recording will also be available to view.
A quorum of 78.82% was achieved.
All 31 ordinary and extraordinary resolutions proposed were approved, including the resolutions regarding the distribution of an ordinary dividend of €2.42 per share, up 10% compared to the 2023 dividend. The dividend will be paid on May 16, 2024.
The Shareholders’ Meeting also approved the renewal of the mandate of Jean-Charles Decaux as a Supervisory Board member and the appointment of three new members – Isabelle Ealet, Cathia Lawson-Hall and Louis Stern – for a mandate of four years. The renewal of Jean Charles Decaux as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the Supervisory Board meeting on March 6, subject to the renewal of his mandate as Supervisory Board member, will thus be effective for a term of four years from the close of this Shareholders’ Meeting.
During the Shareholders’ Meeting, William Kadouch-Chassaing and Christophe Bavière, co-CEOs of Eurazeo, provided an update on the Group’s strategy and 2023 results. They reiterated that the main focus during the 2023 year had been on defining the strategy, transforming operations and achieving the growth objectives. At its Capital Markets Day on November 30, 2023, Eurazeo announced its goal of creating Europe's leading alternative asset manager in the mid-market, growth and impact segments.
Progress towards the Group’s climate commitments was reviewed, with the award during 2023 of an A rating by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) a ringing endorsement of the caliber of Eurazeo’s approach.
Isabelle Ealet spent her entire career spanning almost 30 years in finance at Goldman Sachs where she served as Global Co Head of the Securities Division from 2011 to 2019. She was also a partner from 2000 to 2019, a member of the Management Committee from 2008 to 2019 and a non-independent member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs International from 2016 to 2018. Isabelle began her career in the late 1980s with Total, where she was in charge of buying oil for refineries.
Cathia Lawson-Hall was Head of Coverage and Investment Banking for Africa at Société Générale, a role in which she oversaw relations with African governments, large corporations and financial institutions from 2015 to 2023. Previously, she was Managing Director and Co-Head of Debt Capital Markets for corporates in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. She started her career as a financial analyst covering the telecommunications and media sectors. Cathia is an independent director of three other listed groups: Vivendi, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Endeavour Mining.
Louis Stern is the Chief Executive Officer of IRR, a New York based private investment group. The company manages a global and diversified portfolio invested in a number of asset classes that takes a long-term view. He worked in corporate banking before moving to the private equity and venture capital sectors as investor and trader, in the United States and Europe.
Jean-Charles Decaux informed shareholders that the next Shareholders’ Meeting would be held on May 7, 2025.
