DGAP-News: Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): AGM/EGM 
Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft: Invitation to virtual Annual General Meeting of Commerzbank on 18 May 2021 
2021-04-09 / 15:03 
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- Enhanced interactive exchange with shareholders planned 
- Election of a new auditor and new election of five members of the Supervisory Board on agenda 
Commerzbank AG invites its shareholders to its regular Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 18 May 2021. Due to the 
ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the event will once again take place virtually without the physical presence of the 
shareholders or their proxies. The AGM will be transmitted live online beginning at 10 am. Shareholder voting rights 
can be exercised exclusively by way of absentee ballot or by granting proxy to the voting right representative of the 
company. 
"Dialogue with our owners is very important to us. Despite the restrictions of a virtual event in times of a pandemic, 
we have expanded the way we communicate to offer an enhanced interactive exchange with our shareholders, going beyond 
the legal requirements", said Manfred Knof, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank. 
Shareholders may submit their questions via an online electronic system (Investor Portal) by the end of 16 May 2021. 
Those shareholders who have submitted questions in due time before the event will also be given the opportunity for 
follow up questions during the AGM via the portal. Shareholders may also submit written statements or short video 
messages by the end of 15 May 2021 which will be made available on the Investor Portal. These messages may also be 
broadcast during the AGM. In order to give shareholders the possibility to comment on the speech by the Chairman of the 
Board of Managing Directors, the manuscript will be made available online from 12 May 2021. 
Of particular note are the following additional items to the agenda: 
Election of the auditor (item 4-5) 
For the final time, the Supervisory Board proposes that EY be elected as the auditor for the annual financial 
statements for the financial year 2021 (item 4). For 2022, Commerzbank plans to change its auditor. A selection process 
was carried out in accordance with the requirements of EU Regulation. KPMG has emerged as the preferred auditor. The 
change is due to be implemented in two steps: Initially, the general shareholders' meeting 2021 is due to elect KPMG as 
the new auditor for their audit review of any interim financial information for periods after 31 December 2021 and 
prior to the AGM in the year 2022 (item 5). The AGM in 2022 is then due to also elect KPMG as the new auditor of the 
financial statements for the entire financial year 2022. 
New election of five members of the Supervisory Board (item 6) 
The Supervisory Board will propose five new members for election at the Annual General Meeting. They are to be elected 
for the period from the end of the Annual General Meeting until the end of the Annual General Meeting 2023.The proposed 
candidates are Helmut Gottschalk, Burkhard Keese, Daniela Mattheus, Caroline Seifert and Frank Westhoff. Immediately 
after his appointment by the AGM, the Supervisory Board intends to elect Helmut Gottschalk as Chairman of the 
Supervisory Board. The former long standing Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DZ Bank will thus succeed Hans-Jörg 
Vetter, who resigned from the Supervisory Board on 16 March for health reasons. The other candidates are to succeed 
members Tobias Guldimann, Rainer Hillebrand, Victoria Ossadnik and Andreas Schmitz. 
As in previous years, the speech of the Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors at the AGM will be transmitted live 
and will be available publically on 18 May 2021 on www.commerzbank.com/agm. The hashtag on Twitter for the AGM is # 
CobaHV. The full details of the invitation to the 2021 AGM, including the agenda and explanations of the individual 
items, can also be found on www.commerzbank.com/agm. 
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Press contact 
Sascha Ullrich +49 69 136 82349 
Maurice Farrouh +49 69 136 21947 
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About Commerzbank 
Commerzbank is the leading bank for the German Mittelstand and a strong partner for around 30,000 corporate client 
groups and around 11 million private and small-business customers in Germany. The Bank's two Business Segments - 
Private and Small-Business Customers and Corporate Clients - offer a comprehensive portfolio of financial services. 
Commerzbank transacts approximately 30 per cent of Germany's foreign trade and is present internationally in almost 40 
countries in the corporate clients' business. The Bank focusses on the German Mittelstand, large corporates, and 
institutional clients. As part of its international business, Commerzbank supports clients with German connectivity and 
companies operating in selected future-oriented industries. Following the integration of comdirect, private and 
small-business customers benefit from the services offered by one of Germany's most advanced direct banks combined with 
personal advisory support on site. Its Polish subsidiary mBank S.A. is an innovative digital bank that serves 
approximately 5.7 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, but also in the Czech Republic and 
Slovakia. In 2020, Commerzbank generated gross revenues of some EUR8.2 billion with almost 48,000 employees. 
Disclaimer and Forward-Looking Statement 
This release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical 
facts. In this release, these statements concern inter alia the expected future business of Commerzbank, efficiency 
gains and expected synergies, expected growth prospects and other opportunities for an increase in value of Commerzbank 
as well as expected future financial results, restructuring costs and other financial developments and information. 
These forward-looking statements are based on the management's current plans, expectations, estimates and projections. 
They are subject to a number of assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that 
may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from any future results and developments expressed or 
implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include the conditions in the financial markets in Germany, in 
Europe, in the USA and other regions from which Commerzbank derives a substantial portion of its revenues and in which 
Commerzbank holds a substantial portion of its assets, the development of asset prices and market volatility, 
especially due to the ongoing European debt crisis, potential defaults of borrowers or trading counterparties, the 
implementation of its strategic initiatives to improve its business model, the reliability of its risk management 
policies, procedures and methods, risks arising as a result of regulatory change and other risks. Forward-looking 
statements therefore speak only as of the date they are made. Commerzbank has no obligation to update or release any 
revisions to the forward-looking statements contained in this release to reflect events or circumstances after the date 
of this release. 
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Language:     English 
Company:      Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft 
              Kaiserstraße 16 
              60311 Frankfurt am Main 
              Germany 
Phone:        +49 (069) 136 20 
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E-mail:       pressestelle@commerzbank.com 
Internet:     www.commerzbank.de 
ISIN:         DE000CBK1001 
WKN:          CBK100 
Indices:      MDAX, CDAX, HDAX, PRIMEALL 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, 
              Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange 
EQS News ID:  1183071 
 
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