Implementation of a Capital Increase Reserved for Employees and Former Employees of the TOTAL Group
Total S.A.
In accordance with its plan to increase Employee Shareholding, TOTAL S.A. (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) is implementing its annual capital increase reserved for employees and former employees of the TOTAL group (the “Groupâ€). Through this operation, TOTAL S.A. (the “Companyâ€) intends to further associate its employees with the Group’s business and growth. Employee shareholders, within the meaning of Article L. 225-102 of the French Commercial Code, held 4.8% of the Company’s share capital as of December 31, 2016.
Framework of the issuance – purpose of the offer: The twenty-third resolution of the Combined General Meeting held on May 24, 2016 (the “General Meetingâ€) granted the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Boardâ€) the authority to decide, within a maximum period of 26 months, to carry out one or more capital increases of ordinary shares without preferential subscription rights by a maximum of 1.5% of the Company's share capital and reserved to members of a company or group savings plan of Total S.A. (the “Companyâ€) and French or foreign affiliated companies pursuant to the provisions of Articles L. 3332-1 and seq., L. 3332-18 and seq. of the French Labor Code and Articles L. 225-129-2, L. 225-129-6 and L. 225-138-1 of the French Commercial Code.
The Board has already made use of the above-mentioned authorization by deciding the realization of a capital increase reserved for employees on April, 2017, after which 9,350,220 ordinary shares had been subscribed, representing 0.4% of the Company’s share capital as of March 31, 2017.
The Board, pursuant to the above-mentioned authorization, decided at its meeting on July 26, 2017 to carry out a new share capital increase reserved for employees and former employees of the Group pursuant to the following conditions.
The above-mentioned dates are indicative and may be modified.
NOTICE
The program, reserved to eligible employees and retirees of the Group, will be implemented in France as well as in certain foreign countries, including the United States, where the Total shares offered in the United States will be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Shares and FCPE units offered outside the United States will not be registered with the SEC. In particular, the units of the below-mentioned FCPEs cannot be offered or sold in the United States directly or indirectly (or in its territories or possessions), or for the benefit of a "U.S. Person", as defined in American regulations. Persons wishing to subscribe to units in these FCPEs, will have to certify, when subscribing, that they are not "U.S. Persons". The definition of "U.S. Person" is available on the FCPE Management Company's website (www.amundi.com).
This press release is produced for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer for the sale or the subscription of securities. Moreover, this press release should not be distributed in the countries where the offering is subject to approval of the local authorities.
The offer will be issued only in the countries where the local administrative and regulatory procedures have been implemented (in particular the registration procedures, notification, granting of authorizations and/or applicable exemptions and the information or the consultation of the representatives of the employees).
This press release represents the document required to qualify for the exemption from the requirement to publish a prospectus as defined in the Prospectus Directive 2003/71/CE transposed into the internal law of the Member States of the European Union and, with respect to French law, in Articles 212-4 (5°) and 212-5 (6°) of the AMF General Regulations and Article 14 of the AMF instruction n°2016-01 of October 21, 2016.
About Total
Total is a global integrated energy producer and provider, a leading international oil and gas company, a major player in low-carbon energies. Our 98,000 employees are committed to better energy that is safer, cleaner, more efficient, more innovative and accessible to as many people as possible. As a responsible corporate citizen, we focus on ensuring that our operations in more than 130 countries worldwide consistently deliver economic, social and environmental benefits.
APPENDICES
ISSUER
TOTAL S.A.
Information related to the Company is available on its website (www.total.com) and, in particular, in its 2016 Registration Document, the French version of which was filed with the French Financial Markets Authority (the “AMFâ€) on March 17, 2017 under the registration number D.17-0175. The Registration Document is also available free of charge at the head office of the Company as well as on the Company’s website (www.total.com).
ENTITY ADMINISTERING THE SECURITIES SERVICE FOR THE COMPANY
BNP Paribas Securities Services
Grands Moulins de Pantin
9 rue
du Débarcadère
93500 Pantin, France
COMPANIES CONCERNED AND BENEFICIARIES OF THE RESERVED ISSUE
This capital increase is open to eligible employees and retirees of the Company and its French and non-French subsidiaries in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the voting rights and that have adhered to the PEG-A (the “eligible subsidiariesâ€), under the condition that local administrative authorizations have been obtained.
Employees and former employees eligible to participate (the “beneficiariesâ€) are:
Approximately 110,000 beneficiaries are eligible to take part in this capital increase program.
OFFERS
Two available offers:
Regardless of the offer chosen by the beneficiaries, employees who subscribed to the offering will benefit from a matching contribution in the form of a free allotment of additional shares, determined based on the amount of the personal contribution and within the limit of five free shares per employee (and within the maximum amount of the offering set by the Board at its meeting on July 26, 2017). In certain countries, employees who do not receive the matching contribution could be eligible to a grant of free shares pursuant to the 24th resolution of the General Meeting of May 24, 2016. A maximum of 100,000 newly-issued shares could be thus finally delivered to these beneficiaries after the end of a 5-year vesting period.
SUBSCRIPTION AND HOLDING METHODS
The beneficiaries will have the opportunity to subscribe via Employee Shareholding funds (FCPEs) except in certain countries where the shares will be directly subscribed.
The FCPEs created for the needs of this offering were approved by the AMF on August 10, 2017.
Voting rights attached to shares subscribed through an FCPE will be exercised by the Supervisory Board of the relevant FCPE. With regards to the shares subscribed directly by employees, the voting rights will be exercised by the subscribers individually.
MAXIMUM SUBSCRIPTION
Pursuant to Article L.3332-10 of the French Labor Code, the amount of the payments made each year by an employee as part of a Savings Plan (excluding matching contribution and profit-sharing schemes, i.e., intéressement and participation) cannot exceed one quarter of the employee’s gross annual salary.
For the Capital + offer with leverage effect, the limit of one quarter of the employee’s gross annual salary comprises the additional contribution provided by the bank.
LOCK-UP PERIOD FOR THE UNITS OR SHARES
Pursuant to Article L. 3332-25 of the French Labor Code, shares or FCPE units subscribed in this offering must be held during a lock-up period of five years, with the exception of certain early release cases provided for by Articles L. 3324-10 et R. 3324-22 of the French Labor Code. For beneficiaries who are not French tax residents, the list of early release cases may be reduced due to legal provisions applicable locally.
RULE FOR REDUCTION OF SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS
The capital increase will be fulfilled by the total number of shares subscribed to via the FCPEs referred to above and directly by employees in certain countries. If the total number described above exceeds the 18 million shares limit set by the Board of Directors at its meeting on July 26, 2017, including additional shares of the matching contribution, the subscriptions will be cut back in the following manner:
HEDGING OPERATIONS
The implementation of the Capital + leveraged offer could cause the financial institution that is the counterpart of the swap operation to conduct hedging operations, in particular from the beginning of the period of calculation of the reference price and during the entire period of the offering.
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