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Nordic Financials ASA Annual Report 2024 6
Board of Directors report
About Nordic Financials
Nordic Financials ASA (“NOFIN” or the "Company")
is an investment company listed on Euronext
Expand. Nordic Financials ASA and its subsidiaries
are referred to as the Group. Nordic Financials
current portfolio consists of financial investments
within renewable energy and some pure financial
assets.
Through 2024 we have made changes to the group
and reorganized the operations as a response to
falling profitability because of an increase in costs.
Both financial cost and regulatory cost.
The headquarter are in Oslo (NO).
Activities
The first half of the year most activity was related to
operational actions to the portfolio then owned by
the group. The general meeting authorized the
board to conduct a dividend payment in kind to the
company’s shareholders. On 29 August 2024, the
board of directors of the Company resolved a
distribution of dividend in kind of up to 23,791,983
shares in a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Company, to the shareholders as of close of trading
on the Oslo Stock Exchange on 11 September 2024.
The debt in the Company, at that point NOK
29,880,000, was transferred to Aega AS (the divested
company) in consultation with the lenders, and
Nordic Financials was therefore debt-free after the
dividend payment.
Following the dividend in kind (of Aega AS)
executed in September, Nordic Financials ASA
entered into an agreement to transfer Aega
Management AS to Aega AS. Aega Management AS
did not generate revenues. Consequently, Aega AS
agreed, in exchange for the transfer from Nordic
Financials ASA, to assume the debt obligations of
Aega Management AS, as well as any employment
and liabilities within the transferred company
structure. Following this transaction, Nordic
Financials ASA only have one subsidiary, Nordic
Financials AS, which owns shares in Norsk
Renewables AS.
To further ensure that costs were reduced, the
board decided to terminate the employment
contract of CEO Nils P. Skaset. According to the
terms of the employment agreement, Skaset will
remain employed with the company until the end
of February 2025 and is entitled to severance pay
for 12 months, until end of February 2026.The board
viewed this measure as necessary given the
company's financial situation at the time, and at
the same time wanted to allow the company, after
any potential share issuance, to freely organize its
operations, including the appointment of the
management.
During the strategic review conducted by the board
during Q4 the board of directors was approached
by its largest shareholder. They expressed interest
in the new, less complicated, structure of the
company and suggested changing the investment
profile and were willing to contribute in a process to
make this happen. The board called for an extra
ordinary general meeting (EGM) on December 23,
where the EGM decided to approve a 2mNOK
convertible loan, to change the name of the
company and to conduct a rights issue. The
convertible loan was placed during Christmas 2024,
and the Company continues its work to execute the
rights issue into 2025.
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