Investor Relations

FY2016

The 36th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Notice

Date and time10:00 AM, Wednesday, June 22, 2016
VenueHall A, Tokyo International Forum 5-1, Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Agenda of the meeting

Matters for reporting

  1. Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016) and results of audits by the Independent Auditor and Audit & Supervisory Board of Consolidated Financial Statements
  2. Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016)
 

Matters for approval

  • Proposal 1: Appropriation of Surplus
  • Proposal 2: Election of seven Directors
  • Proposal 3: Amounts and Features of Stock Options issued to Directors as Remuneration
  • Proposal 4: Issuance of the Stock Acquisition Rights as Stock Options
  • Proposal 5: Transfer of Shares of Subsidiaries in Accordance with the Reorganization of Group Companies
Partial Withdrawal of the Agenda for the 36th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Notice of resolutions

Matters for reporting and approval

Matters for reporting
  1. Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016) and results of audits by the Independent Auditor and the Audit & Supervisory Board of the Consolidated Financial Statements.
  2. Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016)

The particulars of the above were reported.

Matters for approval

Proposal 1: Appropriation of Surplus
This proposal was approved and adopted as proposed. It was decided to pay the year-end dividend of 21 yen per share for the fiscal year.
(The annual dividend per share including the interim dividend of 20 yen per share is 41 yen per share.)

Proposal 2: Election of seven Directors
This proposal was approved and adopted. Messrs. Masayoshi Son, Ken Miyauchi, Ronald D. Fisher, Yun Ma, Manabu Miyasaka, Tadashi Yanai and Shigenobu Nagamori were elected and each of them assumed the office.

Proposal 3: Amounts and Features of Stock Options issued to Directors as Remuneration
This proposal was approved and adopted as proposed. It was decided to offer Directors of SBG remuneration in the form of stock acquisition rights issued as incentive stock option worth up to JPY 1 billion annually in addition to the current remuneration.

Proposal 4: Issuance of the Stock Acquisition Rights as Stock Options
This proposal was approved and adopted as proposed. It was decided to delegate to SBG’s Board of Directors the determination of the subscription requirements for the stock acquisition rights issued as stock option.

Proposal 5: Transfer of Shares of Subsidiaries in accordance with the Reorganization of Group Companies
This proposal was approved and adopted as proposed. It was decided that SBG would transfer all of its SoftBank Corp. shares to SoftBank Group Japan GK (in kind contribution) effective July 1, 2016.

Voting results

Matter resolvedNumber of votes for proposalNumber of votes against proposalNumber of abstentionsRequirements for approvalVoting results and ratio of voting for proposal (%)
Proposal 1: Appropriation of Surplus8,542,364178,724199*1Approved 96.95
Proposal 2: Election of seven DirectorsMasayoshi Son8,362,519358,249482*3Approved 94.91
Ken Miyauchi8,543,499169,6648,092Approved 96.96
Ronald D. Fisher8,543,107170,0568,092Approved 96.95
Yun Ma8,543,133170,0308,092Approved 96.95
Manabu Miyasaka8,543,811169,3528,092Approved 96.96
Tadashi Yanai8,489,095231,777382Approved 96.34
Shigenobu Nagamori8,160,013560,451785Approved 92.61
Proposal 3: Amounts and Features of Stock Options issued to Directors as Remuneration7,248,2111,472,884199*1Approved 82.26
Proposal 4: Issuance of the Stock Acquisition Rights as Stock Options7,652,6711,068,425199*2Approved 86.85
Proposal 5: Transfer of Shares of Subsidiaries in accordance with the Reorganization of Group Companies8,714,6646,442199*2Approved 98.90
  1. Approval of a majority of the votes of the shareholders present at the meeting.
  2. Approval of two-thirds or more of the votes of the shareholders present at the meeting at which shareholders holding one-third or more of votes of the shareholders entitled to vote shall be present.
  3. Approval of a majority of the votes of the shareholders present at the meeting at which shareholders holding one-third or more of votes of the shareholders entitled to vote shall be present.

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