In view of the forthcoming Shareholders’ Meeting, which is called in Ordinary session on 2 and 16 May 2017, in first and second call respectively, and in Extraordinary session on 2, 3 and 16 May 2017, in first, second and third call respectively, in order to appoint, among other matters, the members of the Board of Directors, Leonardo hereby informs that the lists of candidates submitted by a group of asset management and institutional investors (together holding around 1.910% of the share capital) and by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (holding around 30.204% of the share capital), together with the documents and the information required by current regulations, are available to the public at the Company’s headquarters, at Borsa Italiana S.p.A. and on the Company’s website and on the website of the authorised storage mechanism eMarket Storage.

Leonardo also informs that the shareholder Ministry of Economy and Finance has notified its intention to submit the following proposals at the General Meeting:

• Set at 12 (twelve) the number of members of the Board of Directors (second item on the agenda, Ordinary session);
• Set at 3 (three) years the term of office of the new Board of Directors, elapsing therefore at the date of the Shareholders’ Meeting called to approve the financial statement at 31 December 2019 (third item on the agenda, Ordinary session);
• Appoint the candidate Giovanni De Gennaro Chairman of the Board of Directors (fifth item on the agenda, Ordinary session);
• Set the remuneration of the new Board of Directors as follows: euro 90,000 before-tax per year to the Chairman and euro 80,000 before-tax per year to each of the other Directors (sixth item on the agenda, Ordinary session).