COMPANY BY-LAWS

SECTION I

INCORPORATION - CORPORATE NAME - REGISTERED HEADQUARTERS - COMPANY DURATION

Article 1

A joint stock company has been incorporated called:

"esprinet" s.p.a.

The corporate name can, for all purposes, also be used in the other following form:

"Esprinet" S.p.A.

Article 2

The Company has its registered office in Vimercate (MB).

Headquarters, agencies, representation offices and branch offices may be constituted or closed both in Italy and in other foreign countries.

Article 3

The company's duration is fixed as lasting until December 31st 2100 and can be extended one or more times with a resolution passed by an extraordinary shareholder meeting. Shareholders who have not taken part in resolutions concerning the extension of duration do not have the right of withdrawal.

SECTION II

CORPORATE PURPOSE

Article 4

The company has as its corporate purpose:

  • the sale - both wholesale and retail - also via internet and by correspondence, marketing and communication activities, representation, hire and leasing, installation, assembly, maintenance and operation related to products, equipment, systems, devices, procedures and software in the sector of:
  • ICT (Information and Communication Technology),
  • consumer electronics, including for example household appliances, televisions, telephones, games, photographic, audio and video devices, musical instruments, wearable devices including watches and sports items, satellite navigation systems, drones and virtual and enhanced reality systems,
  • office supplies,
  • Internet technologies,
  • electric, electronic, electromedical and optoelectronic products and components in general,
  • and products that are auxiliary and complementary to the products listed as typically purchased by retailers specialised in the sale of the listed products;
  • the supply of: services in the field of data processing and information systems including the operation, maintenance, technical assistance and repair of electronic computers and of electronic equipment in general and marketing services including web services; logistics services, including goods transport; disposal services; services involved in the organisational restructuring of companies

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and technical professional updating courses as well as services auxiliary and supplementary to those listed;

  • the taking on of sales representation and agency mandates in the sectors indicated above;
  • the acquisition of equity interests in companies and/or organisations that already exist or are being incorporated, specifying that this activity will not be performed vis-à-vis the public but only vis-à-vis subsidiary or associated companies as per Article 2359 of the Italian Civil Code.
    The Company can undertake co-ordination, also of a strategic nature, of the various equity interests, providing, where necessary, services of a technical, administrative, accounting, information- technology, commercial, promotional, and financial nature.

It can also accomplish all transactions whose nature is financial - including provision of guarantees

  • real-estaterelated, and commercial that are connected with achievement of the corporate purpose, with exclusion, in any case, of performance of financial activities vis-à-vis the public.

SECTION III

SHARE CAPITAL AND COMPANY SHARES

Article 5

Share capital is EUR 7,860,651.00 (seven million eight hundred sixty thousand six-hundred and fifty- one) divided into the number of 50,417,417 (fifty million four hundred seventeen thousand four hundred seventeen) shares without any indication of the nominal value.

Share capital can be increased on one or more occasions by virtue of resolutions passed by extraordinary shareholder meetings also via issue of shares having rights different to those of ordinary shares, in compliance with current regulations. Share capital can also be increased via conferment of receivables and of goods in kind. In the case of a capital increase, the option right is excluded within the limit of 10% (ten percent) of previous existing share capital, on condition that the shares' issue price corresponds to the shares' market value and is confirmed in a specific report by the firm appointed as independent auditor. The resolution concerning the present paragraph is passed with the quorums indicated in Articles 2368 and 2369 of the Italian Civil Code.

Saving the provisions made by Article 2441, paragraph 8, of the Italian Civil Code, the shareholder meeting - to service stock option plans and with a resolution passed by as many shareholders as those accounting for over half of share capital, even if the resolution is passed in a meeting held after a single call or after first call - can pass resolutions approving share capital increases within the maximum limit of 7% (seven percent) of existing share capital, with exclusion of option rights and with the power to determine prices that can also be differentiated, fixed in compliance with the criteria established by current regulations and with possible discounts on the average stock market price, as long as they are based on objective parameters envisaged by the stock option plans.

The shareholder meeting can delegate the decisions indicated in the previous paragraph to the Board of Directors, as per the provisions of Article 2443 of the Italian Civil Code.

Article 6

Each right holder has one vote for each share held. Shares are registered, freely transferable and indivisible and, in the case of joint ownership, are regulated by law.

Article 7

The shareholder capacity means adherence to the company by-laws.

SECTION IV

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SHAREHOLDER MEETING

Article 8

The shareholder meeting, properly constituted, represents all shareholders.

The shareholder meeting is in charge to deliberate on issues required by the applicable law, included the authorizations requested by the procedures adopted by the Company dealing with the operations with related parties.

Its resolutions, passed in compliance with the law and with the present by-laws, are binding for all shareholders, even if they do not attend the meeting or dissent.

Whilst the powers of meeting convocation envisaged by specific legal requirements in any case hold good, the Board of Directors convenes ordinary or extraordinary shareholder meetings to be held at the company's registered headquarters or in any other place indicated in the meeting notice, as long as it is in Italy.

Shareholder meetings can also be convened by the Board of Statutory Auditors, in the cases envisaged by law, via its President, or by at least two members of the Board of Statutory Auditors, after having advised the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Notice of the meeting, including the information envisaged by the norms also of regulatory kind in force, must be published as by law on the website of the Company; where necessary for mandatory rule or decision of the directors, on the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana [Official Gazette of the Italian Republic] with the other methods envisaged by the norms also of regulatory kind in force.

The ordinary shareholders' meeting and the extraordinary shareholders' meeting will usually be held following a single call. The Board of Directors may nevertheless establish that both the ordinary shareholders' meeting and the extraordinary shareholders' meeting are held following more than one call if it deems it opportune and specifies this in the call notice.

The notice must specify the quorum required for the submission of candidate lists for the election of directors and statutory auditors, along with the method of calculation.

Article 9

The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting must be called at least once a year within 120 (one hundred and twenty) days from the financial year-end, or within 180 (one hundred and eighty) days in those cases provided for by law.

The Shareholders that jointly represent at least one fortieth of the share capital can request, within 10 (ten) days after the publishing of Shareholders' Meeting notice of calling, an integration of the items in the agenda by indicating in the question the proposed further items; the notification of such integrations will follow the rules and terms prescribed by law.

Article 10

The entitlement to participate in the meeting and to exercise voting right will be regulated pursuant

the law and applicable regulation

Every right-holder having the right to attend the shareholder meeting has the right to peruse all official documents lodged at the company's registered HQ and to obtain a copy of the same.

Right-holders can cause themselves to be represented at shareholder meetings with observance of legal requirements. Notification to the Company of the proxy given for the attendance of the shareholder meeting can be made also through sending of the document at the email address indicated in the meeting notice.

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Article 11

For the shareholders' meeting and resolutions to be valid, for both ordinary shareholders' meetings and extraordinary shareholders' meetings, the majorities required by the law and by the company by-laws shall be observed in individual cases.

For appointment of the Board of Statutory Auditors the provisions of Article 19 are applied.

Majorities for resolutions are calculated without taking voting abstentions into account.

Article 12

Shareholder meetings are chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or in the case of his absence or impediment, by the Deputy Chairman, if appointed, and, in their absence, by another person designated by the shareholder meeting.

It is the responsibility of the meeting chairman to ascertain that the meeting has been properly constituted, ascertain the identity and legitimation of those present, manage meeting proceedings on the basis of the approved Shareholder Meeting Regulation, and to ascertain and proclaim the results of voting. Unless minutes are drawn up by a notary, a secretary, not necessarily a shareholder, appointed by the shareholder meeting, assists the meeting chairman.

Voting rights cannot be exercised by post.

Shareholder meeting deliberations and resolutions are documented in minutes signed by the meeting chairman and by the secretary, or by the notary when the latter draws up the minutes or when a notary's participation in this respect is required by law.

Article 13

Resolutions for the election of directors and statutory auditors are passed on the basis of an open vote, with the majorities required by law and the by-laws, using the preference list system.

The members of the Board of Directors are elected, with respect of the equality of the genders required by the applicable law, on the basis of candidate lists, listed in progressive order, submitted by the Board of Directors or by the sponsoring shareholders, who alone or in conjunction with other shareholders represent, as of the date the list is submitted, at least one fortieth of the share capital or any different amount established by law, and who in any case satisfy any other conditions set by law.

The lists must be filed at the company's registered office at least twenty-five days prior to the date of the meeting on single call or at first call, without prejudice to any shorter deadline set by law. The Board of Director's list, if submitted, shall be filed at the Company's registered office by the thirtieth day prior to the date of the meeting and made the subject of publicity formalities required by law.

The lists must state which candidates qualify as independent, as defined by law for directors of listed companies.

Each list must be accompanied by declarations in which the nominees accept their candidacy and confirm that there are no reasons for ineligibility or disqualification, that they meet any conditions set by law or the company's by-laws, and (if applicable) that they qualify as independent.

The lists that submit a number of candidates equal to or greater than three must be composed of candidates belonging to both genders, to the extent required by pro tempore governing regulations concerning balance between genders.

To demonstrate ownership of the number of shares required for the submission of lists, shareholders must file within the term envisaged by the norms in force for the publishing of the lists by the Company, a copy of the shareholding certificates issued by the authorized intermediaries.

Lists submitted in violation of the by-laws will be treated as never submitted.

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A single shareholder, as well as shareholders belonging to the same group -- i.e. the controlling party, subsidiaries, sister companies and associates as defined by Art. 2359 of the Italian Civil Code -- and shareholders who are party, including through subsidiaries, to an agreement regarding the company's shares per Art. 122 of Legislative Decree 58/1998 may not submit more than one list either directly or through trust companies or other intermediaries.

For the purposes of this article, control (including with reference to parties in non-corporate form) is defined by Art. 93 of Legislative Decree 58/1998.

Each candidate may appear on one list only or will otherwise be disqualified. Each right-holder may vote for a single list.

One member of the Board of Directors (who must satisfy the conditions of reputability and professional qualifications per Art. 148, paragraphs III and IV of the Consolidated Finance Act) is drawn from the minority list obtaining the highest number of votes which is in no way associated, even indirectly, with the shareholders who submitted or voted for the winning list. For the purposes of selecting the winning candidates, account is not taken of lists that fail to obtain a percentage of votes equal to at least half that required for the submission of lists.

All other members of the board are drawn from the list obtaining the highest number of votes, in the order in which their names appear on the list, and at least two of them (or any higher number required by the laws in effect when the lists are submitted) must meet the legal definition of independent as established for the directors of listed companies.

If, when the candidates are elected in the manner described above, the presence of the necessary number of Directors who meet the independence requirements established by law for the directors of listed companies is not met, the candidate who does not meet the independence requirements established by law for directors of listed companies elected last in progressive order on the list receiving the most votes will be replaced by the first candidate who meets the independence requirements established by law for directors of listed companies not elected from the same list in progressive order. If this procedure does not ensure the necessary number of Directors who meet the independence requirements established by law for directors of listed companies, the replacement will take place with a resolution approved by a relative majority, after the submission of candidacies by persons who meet the independence requirements established by law for directors of listed companies.

In case the Board of Director's composition, even after the fulfilment of the procedure written above, does not respect the prescriptions required by the law in order to guarantee the equality of the genders, the last elected candidate of the majority list, according to the sequential number in which the candidates are indicated, belonging to the gender more represented, will be automatically replaced by the first not elected candidate of the same list and belonging to the gender less represented. This procedure will be applied as long as the composition of the Board of Directors will be respectful of the prescriptions required by the applicable law in order to guarantee the equality of the genders. In the event of the procedure's inability to guarantee the equality of the genders required by the applicable law, the replacement will be adopted by the Shareholders' meeting resolution. This resolution will be adopted with simple majority by means of submission of candidates belonging to the gender less represented.

In the event of a tie between two or more lists, a new ballot is held between those lists on which all eligible parties present in the meeting may vote. The candidates on the list winning a simple majority of votes shall be elected, with abstentions excluded from the count.

If only one list has been submitted, the Shareholders' Meeting shall vote on it and if it obtains a majority, the candidates listed in progressive order up to the number set by the Shareholders'

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