The board of Aforti Holding S.A. (“the Company”, “the Issuer”) headquartered in Warsaw, in reference to the currents reports of ESPI No. 29/2018 dated on 13/08/2018 and No. 34/2018 dated on 24/10/2018, hereby announces to the public that it received information that on November 26, 2018 an Extraordinary General Meeting of Aforti Collections SA with its registered office in Warsaw (“Aforti Collections”, “Acquiring Company”) and an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of LifeBelt sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Lublin (“LifeBelt”, “the Acquired
Company”) consented to a Merger Plan of the abovementioned companies.
The merger of the Acquiring Company with the Acquired Company will take place in the mode of art. 492 § 1 point 1 of the Commercial Companies Code (CCC) in connection with art. 515 § 1, ie by transferring all assets of the Acquired Company to the Acquiring Company (merger by acquisition). The merger of the companies will take place without increasing the share capital of the Acquiring Company.
Additionally, pursuant to art. 516 § 5 of the CCC in connection with art. 516 § 6 of
the Commercial Companies Code, the merger of the companies took place in the simplified mode provided for in the aforementioned regulations.
At the same time, the Management Boards of Issuer’s subsidiaries informed that no later than on December 5 this year, at the District Court in the Economic Department of the National Court Register the application for entering a combination of the above companies will be submitted. That, in practice, will involve deleting the Acquired Company from the register of entrepreneurs of the National Court Register.
Acquisition of an entity from the debt collection industry by Aforti Collections S.A. is the next step, after the AFORTI Group’s entry into foreign markets (including Romanian through the Aforti Finance and Aforti Exchange brands), which is a consistent implementation of the Group’s development strategy for 2018-2020. This activity will simultaneously expand and strengthen the presence of the Aforti Group and the Aforti Collections brand in the debt management segment on the Polish market.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information