ASML Convenes Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in Relation to Plans for Optimization of Capital Structure.VELDHOVEN, Netherlands -- The Board of Management of ASML Holding ASML is a Dutch company and the world’s primary supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Of all the major chip producers worldwide, more than 80% are ASML customers. NV (ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line ) today convened an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGM EGM Electronic Gaming Machine EGM Electronic Gaming Monthly EGM Extraordinary General Meeting EGM Expert Group Meeting EGM Estudio General de Medios (Spanish: General Means Study) EGM Emergency General Meeting ), to be held in Veldhoven on July 17, 2007. Further to announcements on May 31 on plans to optimize the capital structure of the company, the EGM will be asked to approve amendments to the Articles of Association in connection with the repayment of capital to shareholders combined with a reverse stock split. Another item on the agenda is the nomination for appointment of Mr. Rolf Deusinger as a member of ASML's Supervisory Board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. . The nomination is based on the strengthened recommendation right that ASML's Works Council has in relation to this nomination and will fill the vacancy due to Mr. Grassmann's retirement in 2006. Mr. Deusinger, a German national, is the Executive Vice-President Human Resources at ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Plc. in London. Previously, Mr. Deusinger held several international Human Resources management positions throughout Europe. According to ASML's Supervisory Board this makes Mr. Deusinger a very qualified candidate for this particular position. The entire agenda for the EGM, the explanation to the agenda, the proposals to amend the Articles of Association as well as the information regarding Mr. Deusinger are available via www.asml.com and at the addresses mentioned in the official convocation that has been sent out today. About ASML ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol ASML. For more information, visit the website at ASML.com. |
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