Equita S p A : announces its new sustainable finance team

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Equita announces its new sustainable finance team to capitalise on the significant expertise that has been developed by the Group over time

The team will assist investors, corporates, entrepreneurs and institutions with new solutions and products dedicated to sustainable finance

Milan, 27th June 2022

Andrea Vismara, Chief Executive Officer at Equita, commented: "Equita has always supported sustainable initiatives dedicated to help local communities and the territory in general, as well as corporate responsible business practices. The multidisciplinary approach of our professionals, their commitment and the Group's track-recordlinked to ESG are all strong credentials. Our objective is to position ourselves as the reference partner for investors, corporates and institutions when sustainable finance competences are needed".

Equita Group S.p.A. ("Equita" or the "Company", and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") announces the creation of a dedicated sustainable finance team to continue to support investors, corporates, entrepreneurs and institutions with the integration of sustainability into their businesses and where the Group's professionals will make available to clients their expertise on ESG.

Equita has always been committed to spread the concept of sustainability, internally and externally to the organisation, and all its professionals consider sustainability a key pillar of the corporate strategy. In 2022, the Company announced to the market its new three-yearbusiness plan which includes financial as well as sustainability-linkedtargets to 2024. In addition to the plan's targets, the Group calculated its carbon footprint and has committed to achieve net zero emissions by the end of 2022. Equita also contributed - as co-founderand jointly with some other managers of the Group - to the establishment of Fondazione Equita. The foundation will strengthen Equita commitment toward young students, talent development, art and culture, economic and financial education, and local communities.

The social commitment of Equita parallels the competences that the Group's professionals have developed on sustainable finance in the recent past: dialogue with investors, sustainability-linkedissues on capital markets and research reports on ESG behaviours of listed companies, including small and mid- sized corporates, are some of the areas where Equita today boasts an outstanding expertise.

The new team - headed by Marco Clerici and Domenico Ghilotti, Co-head of the Investment Banking and Co-head of the Research Team respectively - has been created to assist clients on sustainable finance mandates with a completely dedicated offering. 15 professionals have been identified, coming from the different business areas of the Group: they will regularly support clients with their financial and strategic needs, and other professionals who are not part of the team will be involved with regular meetings to foster the out-of-the-box thinking, better assist clients and develop new effective solutions to the market needs.

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Marco Clerici and Domenico Ghilotti declared: "Sustainability is a key asset to invest in today. That is why we have decided to build a team dedicated to sustainable finance. The Group is continuing to invest in developing its offering, expanding the number of products and services dedicated to sustainability".

The team will reinforce the track record of the Group in sustainable finance. Equita recently assisted as placement agent Alerion Clean Power in the issue of €100 million green bonds and OVS in the issue of €160 million sustainability-linked bonds. Equita also assisted Tea S.p.A. SB in the structuring of €120 million multi-tranche financing (potentially convertible into sustainability-linked financing) and is working on new financing solutions dedicated to SMEs to allow them to access capital markets. The Group also assisted as financial advisor several corporates and groups with their projects linked to sustainability such as Fondazione CDP with a fairness opinion on the Arbolia project, Renerwaste in the disposal of its biomethane plants to Snam and Edison in the reorganisation of its renewable portfolio.

Equita will continue to integrate its research with ESG analyses, to help investors to better understand investment opportunities from a sustainable standpoint on the Italian and the European markets. Specific focus will be dedicated to the commitment of listed companies toward environment, communities, and governance, and to the long-term sustainability of their businesses.

The team will be involved in the organisation of ad-hoc events on hot topics linked to sustainability (as occurred with the Climate Change Conference organised by Equita last 8 June 2022 - where listed companies and investors debated about the decarbonisation strategies and the Repower EU plan - or the Cybersecurity seminar organised by Equita and Chiomenti last 20 June 2022 - where listed companies and institutions discussed about the importance of capital markets to finance investments in cybersecurity and to develop new digital infrastructures, and where the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defence Giorgio Mulè intervened) and will continue to develop innovative sustainable corporate finance solutions as member of the Sustainable Finance Partnership sponsored by Borsa Italiana - Euronext.

The team will also support the management company Equita Capital SGR - which signed in 2019 the UNPRI

• Principles for Responsible Investments of the United Nations - sharing its competences, with the aim to further improve the investment process and the monitoring of the portfolio to ensure that all investments meet the ESG criteria set by the SGR.
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Equita, the leading Italian independent investment bank, has been offering its expertise and insight on financial markets to professional investors, corporates and institutions for more than 45 years. The holding Equita Group, listed on the "STAR" segment of the Italian Stock Exchange, counts its managers and professionals among shareholders (with approximately 54% of the share capital) and this ensures a strong alignment of interests with investors. With its global markets activities, today Equita is the leading independent broker in Italy that offers to its institutional clients brokerage services on equities, fixed income, derivatives and ETFs. Moreover, thanks to the continuous engagement of the award winning research team - acknowledged for its top quality research - the trading floor supports investors' decisions with valuable analyses and investment ideas on Italian and European financial markets. Equita also leverages on a unique investment banking platform that combines independent strategic advice with unparalleled access to capital markets. The wide offering proposed includes advisory services in M&A, other extraordinary financial transactions, along with equity and fixed income capital raising solutions. Our aim is to best serve all clients, from large industrial groups to small and medium enterprises, from financial institutions to the public sector. Lastly, Equita Capital SGR offers to institutional investors and banking groups its asset management competences and its deep understanding of financial markets, especially in mid and small caps. The strong focus on alternative assets like private debt and the asset management strategies based on distinctive areas of expertise of the Group make Equita Capital SGR the best partner for both investors looking for interesting returns and banking groups that would like to co-developnew products for their retail networks

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