DGAP-Ad-hoc: AUTO1 Group SE / Key word(s): Capital Increase 
AUTO1 Group SE resolves to issue new shares to settle the existing participation program for its founders, which has 
partially vested, amounting to around 2.2% of the share capital. 
23-March-2021 / 19:54 CET/CEST 
Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, transmitted by DGAP - a 
service of EQS Group AG. 
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. 
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AUTO1 Group SE resolves to issue new shares to settle the existing participation program for its founders, which has 
partially vested, amounting to around 2.2% of the share capital. Also other claims from existing employee participation 
programs are intended to be settled in the future by issuing shares to the beneficiaries. 
Berlin, 23 March 2021 - Using its authorized capital, the Company will increase its share capital by EUR 4,529,732.00 
by issuing a total of 4,529,732 new shares (around 2.2% of the current share capital). The new shares are issued 
against contribution in kind with exclusion of the shareholders' subscription rights to the chairman of the Management 
Board, Christian Bertermann, and the former member of the Management Board and current member of the Supervisory Board 
Hakan Koç, for the partial settlement of an existing participation program, the so-called Long-term Incentive Plan 
2017. The Management Board and the Supervisory Board adopted this resolution today. 
As part of the Long-Term Incentive Plan 2017, virtual shares were issued to Christian Bertermann and Hakan Koç as 
long-term remuneration, the settlement of which depend on the development of the stock market price in a 24-month 
period after the IPO. The settlement requirements have now been met for two thirds of these virtual shares. For 
settlement, 2,264,866 new shares will be issued to each of the two beneficiaries against contribution of their payment 
entitlements under the relevant virtual shares. They may only be transferred for up to 12 months after the completion 
of the IPO with the consent of the Supervisory Board and, in the case of Christian Bertermann, are also subject to a 
lock-up agreed with the issuing banks as part of the IPO. However, the Supervisory Board has approved the sale of 
shares to cover the taxes triggered by the settlement. The beneficiaries intend to sell the shares remaining thereafter 
to their respective holding vehicles, who will enter into the beneficiaries' holding obligation for this purpose; the 
Supervisory Board also granted its approval in this respect. 
Furthermore, today, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board have agreed in principle on the following: 
  . In the future, also other claims from existing participation programs should be settled by issuing shares to the 
    beneficiaries. The required shares are intended to be issued also by using authorized capital with exclusion of the 
    shareholders' subscription rights, except to the extent treasury shares are used for settlement in individual 
    cases. 
  . Under such programs, participants can generally not request to settle within 12 months from the completion of the 
    IPO. For individual participants outside Germany, however, the Company will, if necessary, carry out an advanced 
    settlement, inter alia, in order to take into account special legal and tax framework conditions for these 
    participants. In these cases, the shares issued will be subject to a lock-up for a period of 12 months from the 
    completion of the IPO (with usual exceptions, e.g. for the sale of shares to cover taxes). For this purpose, the 
    Company intends to carry out one or more further capital increases from authorized capital during the next few 
    months to issue new shares to the relevant participants, with exclusion of the shareholders' subscription rights, 
    in the expected amount of up to around 0.6% of the share capital. 
  . In the event that the conditions for the exercise of the remaining virtual shares of the Long-Term Incentive Plan 
    2017 will be fulfilled, the Company intends, also in this case, to carry out a capital increase from authorized 
    capital in order to issue new shares to the beneficiaries shortly after the conditions for exercise have been 
    fulfilled. 
 
 
Investor Relations 
Philip Reicherstorfer 
Director Corporate Finance 
Tel: +49 (0)30 - 2016 38 213 
ir@auto1-group.com 
AUTO1 Group SE | Bergmannstrasse 72 | 10961 Berlin | Deutschland 
 
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Language:     English 
Company:      AUTO1 Group SE 
              Bergmannstraße 72 
              10961 Berlin 
              Germany 
Internet:     https://www.auto1-group.com/de/ 
ISIN:         DE000A2LQ884 
WKN:          A2LQ88 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Tradegate Exchange 
EQS News ID:  1177755 
 
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