The Bank’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Wednesday, 26 March 2025, at 10:00 a.m. CET at China Teatern, Berzelii Park 9, Stockholm, Sweden. Entry registration for the AGM will commence at 8:15 a.m. Before the meeting, from 9:15 a.m., there will be a presentation on Handelsbanken’s role in society and interviews with Professor Lars E.O. Svensson and the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Green. Outerwear and larger bags are not permitted in the meeting venue and must be left in the cloakroom outside the meeting venue.
Shareholders who do not wish to attend the AGM in person, may exercise their voting rights at the general meeting by advance voting (postal voting). Please see the section "Participation through advance voting (postal voting)" below for more information.
Conditions for participation
There are two ways for shareholders to participate in the AGM: (i) attending the AGM in person or by proxy, or (ii) participating by advance voting. In either case, the shareholder must be entered in the register of shareholders kept by Euroclear Sweden AB on Tuesday, 18 March 2025, and give notice of their attendance or cast their advance vote by Thursday, 20 March 2025 at the latest.
Participation in person or by proxy
Notice of attendance is to be sent via this website (please see link below), via email proxy@computershare.se, by telephone on 08 518 01 553 (from outside Sweden +46 8 518 01 553), or by letter to Computershare AB, Handelsbankens årsstämma, Box 5267, 102 46 Stockholm, Sweden.
Shareholders who have appointed representatives must in addition to give notice of attendance, issue a written, dated power of attorney for the representative. A power of attorney issued by a representative of a legal entity must also be accompanied by a registration certificate or corresponding authorisation documents. These documents must prove the authority of the person who has signed the power of attorney to appoint the representative for the legal entity. In order to facilitate entry at the meeting, the power of attorney and other authorisation documentation should be sent to the Bank at the address above well in advance of the AGM.
Notices of attendance received in time will be confirmed by the delivery of a personal entrance card, digitally to attendees who have registered an email address, and by post to other attendees. The entrance card must be shown at the entrance to the meeting venue.
Participation through advance voting (postal voting)
Shareholders may cast their advance votes electronically through verification with BankID via the Bank’s website, please see link below. For other advance voting, a special form must be used which is available below. The completed and signed form for advance voting shall be sent by e-mail to proxy@computershare.se or by letter to Computershare AB, Handelsbankens årsstämma, Box 5267, 102 46 Stockholm, Sweden.
The shareholders may not provide special instructions or conditions to the advance vote. If so, the entire advance vote is invalid. Further instructions and conditions can be found in the advance voting form. If a shareholder submits its advance vote through a representative, a written and dated power of attorney signed by the shareholder must be attached to the advance voting form. A power of attorney issued by a representative of a legal entity must also be accompanied by a registration certificate or corresponding authorisation documents.
Nominee-registered shares
Shareholder whose shares are nominee-registered (in a custody account) via a bank or other nominee must temporarily re-register the shares in his/her own name in the Euroclear Sweden AB register of shareholders (so called “registration of shares for voting rights”). Shareholders must notify the nominee of this in good time. Registrations of shares for voting rights that have been requested by shareholders in such time as to be completed by the nominee no later than Thursday, 20 March 2025 will be taken into account when the register of shareholders is prepared. Shareholders must also register for attendance or cast their advance votes in accordance with what is stated above.
Link to notice of attendance in person or by proxy:
Link to advance voting:
