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OSRAM Licht AG Ams Offer Gmbh Convenience translation of the German original CONTRACT REPORT Joint report of the management board of OSRAM Licht AG, Munich, and the management of ams Offer GmbH, Ismaning, pursuant to section 293a of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) on the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement between OSRAM Licht AG and ams Offer GmbH dated 22 September 2020 Convenience translation of the German original TABLE OF CONTENTS A. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1 B. The Parties ............................................................................................................... 3 I. OSRAM and the OSRAM Group .............................................................. 3 1. Overview ........................................................................................... 3 2. History and development of business ............................................... 3 3. Legal form, registered seat, fiscal year and object ............................ 5 4. Capital, shareholders and stock exchange trading ............................ 6 5. Management board and supervisory board of OSRAM.................. 10 6. Structure of the OSRAM Group ......................................................11 7. Business activities of the OSRAM Group ...................................... 12 8. Development of business and earnings situation of the OSRAM Group .............................................................................................. 13 9. Employees and co-determination .................................................... 15 II. ams and the ams Group ............................................................................ 16 1. Overview ......................................................................................... 16 2. History and development ................................................................ 16 3. Legal form, registered seat, fiscal year and object .......................... 18 4. Share capital, shareholders and stock exchange trading ................. 18 5. Management board and supervisory board ..................................... 21 6. Structure of the ams Group ............................................................. 23 7. Business of the ams Group ............................................................. 24 8. Development of business and earnings situation of the ams Group .............................................................................................. 25 9. Employees and co-determination .................................................... 28 III. ams Offer ................................................................................................... 28 1. Overview ......................................................................................... 28 2. Legal form, registered seat, fiscal year and object .......................... 28 3. History and development ................................................................ 28 4. Governing bodies and representation .............................................. 29 5. Business activities ........................................................................... 30 6. Earnings situation and financial position of ams Offer ................... 30 7. Financial resources of ams Offer to meet its liabilities under the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement .................... 30 i Convenience translation of the German original 8. Takeover Offer and potential share acquisitions by ams Offer ....... 31 C. Reasons for concluding the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement .............................................................................................................. 32 I. Economic and legal reasons ..................................................................... 32 1. Enhancing the strength and integration of the ams Group .............. 32 2. Limits and restrictions to cooperation in the current de facto corporate group ............................................................................... 34 3. Establishment of a contractual corporate group by concluding the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement............... 35 4. Summary result ............................................................................... 37 II. Tax reasons ................................................................................................ 37 III. Alternatives................................................................................................ 38 1. Conclusion of an isolated domination agreement and an isolated profit and loss transfer agreement ................................................... 39 2. Exclusion of minority shareholders (squeeze-out) ......................... 39 3. Integration or merger ...................................................................... 40 4. Change of legal form ...................................................................... 40 5. Relationship agreement ................................................................... 41 6. Conclusions ..................................................................................... 42 D. The Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement ............................... 42 I. Explanation of the Agreement’s content ................................................. 42 1. Management Control (Clause 1 of the Agreement) ........................ 42 2. Transfer of Profit (Clause 2 of the Agreement) .............................. 43 3. Assumption of Losses (Clause 3 of the Agreement) ....................... 45 4. Recurring Compensation Payment (Clause 4 of the Agreement) ... 45 5. Compensation (Clause 5 of the Agreement) ................................... 50 6. Effectiveness and term (Clause 6 of the Agreement) ...................... 53 7. Comfort letter (Clause 7 of the Agreement) ................................... 57 8. Severability clause (Clause 8 of the Agreement) ............................ 57 II. Payment of the Compensation (Abfindung) and of the Recurring Compensation Payment (Ausgleich) (processing by banks) ................. 57 III. Legal effects on outside OSRAM Shareholders ..................................... 58 1. Corporate law effects ...................................................................... 58 2. Protection of outside OSRAM Shareholders .................................. 61 ii Convenience translation of the German original IV. Tax effects on outside OSRAM Shareholders ........................................ 63 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................ 63 2. Taxation of recurring compensation payments at the shareholder level ................................................................................................. 64 3. Taxation of compensation at the level of OSRAM Shareholders ... 66 V. Tax effects on OSRAM ............................................................................. 68 VI. Costs of the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement ..... 69 E. Type and amount of the recurring compensation payment (Ausgleich) and of the compensation (Abfindung) pursuant to sections 304, 305 AktG ................. 69 I. Overview .................................................................................................... 69 II. Determination and fixing of the amount of the appropriate recurring compensation payment pursuant to section 304 AktG ........ 71 III. Determination and fixing of the amount of the appropriate compensation pursuant to section 305 AktG .......................................... 71 F. Contract audit ....................................................................................................... 73 iii Convenience translation of the German original LIST OF ANNEXES Annex 1 List of all subsidiaries and affiliates of OSRAM Licht AG Annex 2 List of all subsidiaries and affiliates of ams AG Annex 3 Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement between OSRAM Licht AG and ams Offer GmbH, and the letter of comfort of ams AG Annex 4: Expert opinion by PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschafts- prüfungsgesellschaft, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, of 21 September 2020 on the determination of the business value of OSRAM Licht AG as per the valuation date of 3 November 2020 Annex 5: Decision of the Munich Regional Court (Landgericht) of 19 May 2020 on the appointment of Ebner Stolz GmbH & Co. KG Wirt- schaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, Kronenstra- ße 30, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany, as expert auditor (contract auditor) for the purposes of section 293b(1) AktG v Convenience translation of the German original The management board of OSRAM Licht AG (hereinafter OSRAM, and together with the companies controlled by OSRAM within the meaning of section 17 of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz - AktG) the OSRAM Group) and the management of ams Offer GmbH (hereinafter ams Offer) have jointly prepared the following report pursuant to section 293a AktG (hereinafter the Contract Report) on the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement (hereinafter the Agreement) between ams Offer as the control- ling company and OSRAM as the controlled company (together hereinafter the Parties). A. Introduction ams Offer, a 100% subsidiary of ams AG, having its corporate address at Tobel- bader Straße 30, 8141 Premstätten, Austria (hereinafter ams and, together with its subsidiaries, the ams Group), on
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