(Boursier.com) — The Combined General Meeting of Shareholders ofEurazeo met today at Pavillon Gabriel under the Chairmanship of Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and was broadcast live on the company’s website where it will also be available for rebroadcast. The quorum stood at 78.82%.
All 31 resolutions presented on an ordinary and extraordinary basis were approved, in particular the payment of an ordinary dividend of 2.42EUR per share, an increase of 10% compared to the 2023 ordinary dividend. This dividend will be implemented payment on May 16, 2024.
The General Meeting also approved the renewal of the mandate of Jean-Charles Decaux as member of the Supervisory Board, as well as the appointment of three new members – Isabelle Ealet, Cathia Lawson-Hall and Louis Stern – for a period of four years. The renewal of the functions of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Jean-Charles Decaux at the meeting of the Supervisory Board on March 6, therefore takes effect at the end of this General Meeting and for a period of four years.
On the occasion of this General Assembly, William Kadouch Chassaing and Christophe Bavière, co-CEOs of Eurazeo, took stock of the strategy and the results for 2023. They recalled that the year was devoted to the definition from the strategic roadmap, to operational transformation and the continuation of the growth trajectory. Eurazeo set itself the ambition, during its Capital Markets Day on November 30, 2023, to become the benchmark player in Europe for asset management in private markets in the mid-market and growth stocks segments. & impact.
A progress report on the Group’s Climate commitment was presented. Obtaining the A rating from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in 2023, the highest, confirms that Eurazeo’s decarbonization strategy meets the best standards.
Isabelle Ealet spent her entire professional career in finance at Goldman Sachs for nearly 30 years, serving as Global Co-Head of Securities Division from 2011 to 2019. She was also a partner from 2000 to 2019, a member of the Committee Executive from 2008 to 2019 and non-independent member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs International from 2016 to 2018. Isabelle Ealet began her career in the late 1980s at Total where she was in charge of oil purchases for refiners. Cathia Lawson-Hall served as Director of Client Relations and Investment Banking for Africa at Société Générale, responsible for relations with governments, large corporations and African financial institutions from 2015 to 2023.
Previously, she was Managing Director and Co-Head of Corporate Debt Capital Markets in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. She began her career as a financial analyst in the telecommunications and media industries. Cathia Lawson-Hall is an independent director of three other listed groups: Vivendi, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Endeavor Mining.
Louis Stern is the Chairman and CEO of IRR, a private investment group based in New York. The company manages a global and diversified portfolio invested in numerous asset classes with a long-term investment perspective. He began his career in investment banking before working in private equity and venture capital, as an investor and operator, in the United States and Europe.
Jean-Charles Decaux has arranged to meet shareholders for the next General Meeting which will be held on May 7, 2025.