Board of Foundation Preference Shares BAM Group
The Foundation’s board consists of three members who are appointed by the Foundation’s board, after notification to the Executive Board. The Foundation is supported by its own legal and communication advisors.
Composition of the Board
- J.J. Nooitgedagt, chairman
- F.K. Buijn
- P. van Riel
The chairman of the Board receives an annual fee of €12,000.- from the Foundation. The remaining members of the Foundation’s Board each receive an annual fee of €10,000.-.
The particulars of the board members are:
J.J. (Jan) Nooitgedagt (1953), chairman
Mr Nooitgedagt has served on the Foundation’s board since 2017 and was appointed chairman in that same year. He is a Dutch national. A former member of the Executive Board and chief financial officer of Aegon, Mr Nooitgedagt is vice chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank, chairman of the supervisory board of PostNL and chairman of the board of Stichting Beschermingspreferente Aandelen Fugro.
F.K. (Frederik) Buijn (1950)
Mr Buijn has been a member of the Foundation’s board since 2012. He is a Dutch national. Due to his long-term experience as a qualified civil-law notary Mr Buijn is well-versed in commercial law. Mr Buijn is a member of the board of the Stichting Preferente Aandelen Arcadis N.V. He is involved in various large family companies as chairman or director of foundation trust offices and is also chairman of the board of the Stichting Instituut Gak.
P. (Paul) van Riel (1956)
Mr. Van Riel became a member of the Foundation’s Board in 2019. He is a Dutch national. He is former CEO and chairman of the Management Board of Fugro NV. He is chairman of the board of the Stichting Preferente Aandelen Arcadis N.V.
Anti-takeover measures
The Company has taken the following measures to protect itself against any undesired developments that might have an impact on the independence, continuity and/or identity of the Company and the companies that are held by the Company and the group of companies associated with the Company (hereinafter ‘the Group’).
Pursuant to a resolution passed by the General Meeting held on 12 June 1972, the Articles of Association include the possibility of issuing preference shares. Stichting Aandelenbeheer BAM Groep (hereafter referred to as ‘the Foundation’) was founded with a view to this possibility in 1978.
The objective of the Foundation is to look after the interests of the Company and the Group. Specifically, the Foundation seeks to ensure that the interests of the Company, the Group and all their stakeholders are safeguarded as much as possible, and that influences which could undermine the independence and/or continuity and/or identity of the Company and the Group and which are in conflict with those interests are averted to the best of the Foundation’s ability. The Foundation attempts to achieve its objective by acquiring and holding class B cumulative preference shares in the Company’s capital, by exercising the rights connected with those shares and/or by using its right of enquiry.
As announced at the General Meeting held on 4 June 1992 and considered at the General Meeting on 8 June 1993, the Company granted the Foundation an option to acquire class B cumulative preference shares in the Company’s capital on 17 May 1993. This option was granted up to such an amount as the Foundation might require, subject to a maximum of a nominal amount that would result in the total nominal amount of class B cumulative preference shares in issue and not held by the Company equaling no more than ninety-nine point nine per cent (99.9%) of the nominal amount of the issued share capital in the form of shares other than class B cumulative preference shares and not held by the Company at the time of exercising of the right referred to above. The board of the Foundation has the exclusive right to determine whether or not to exercise this right to acquire class B cumulative preference shares. No class B cumulative preference shares have been issued at this time.
On 6 October 2008, the Company granted the Foundation the right, under Article 2:346(c) of the Dutch Civil Code, to submit a petition as referred to in Article 2:345 of the Dutch Civil Code (right of enquiry).
The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board reserve the right, in the interests of the Company and its associated companies, to resolve to take alternative measures in order to protect the Company and the Group against influences that might be regarded by the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board, after balancing the interests of the Company and all of the stakeholders in the Group, as being potentially damaging to the independence, continuity and/or identity of the Company and/or the Group.