Frequently Asked Questions

The next Annual General Meeting will be held on March 27, 2013 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Only shareholders of Sulzer Ltd. are permitted to attend the Annual General Meeting.

Only shareholders of Sulzer Ltd. are permitted to attend the Annual General Meeting. For special reasons, a guest card can be issued to attend the AGM. Please contact either

- the Sulzer General Secretary (concetta.stefani@sulzer.com),

- the Sulzer Share Register (corp.aktienregister@sulzer.com) or

- Sulzer Investor Relations (investor.relations@sulzer.com).

Please contact our Sulzer Communications team (news@sulzer.com).

The invitation for the Annual General Meeting will be mailed on February 27,  2013.

Yes. For reasons of organization, no entries can be made in the company's share register after the book closing date of the Annual General Meeting, one week before AGM.

Yes. The registration of your shares has no influence on the ability to trade the shares.
In the event that you sell any shares listed on your admission card before the Annual General Meeting, however, the right to vote for these shares no longer exists. Admission tickets already issued will automatically lose their validity. If you didn't sell all your shares you will receive a new admission card listed with the shares still registered in your name.

In order to attend the Annual General Meeting personally, you must have an admission ticket which you can request with the Registration and Proxy Form which is enclosed to the invitation.
Admission tickets will be sent to shareholders who register for the Annual General Meeting on March 20, 2013; you can register using the enclosed registration and proxy form by regular mail to Sulzer Ltd, Share Register, by fax on +41 52 262 03 93 or by e-mail: Corp.Aktienregister@sulzer.com or via Internet at www.sulzer.com/AGM. Admission tickets which can no longer be mailed on time will be ready for collection at the Annual General Meeting from the share register information desk.

Yes. Shareholders who will not be attending the AGM may arrange to be represented by proxy. Such proxy may be granted either to:
a) Sulzer Ltd. or
b) the independent voting representative, Dr. René Schwarzenbach, Attorney-at-law
    SCHWARZENBACH RECHTSANWÄLTE, Grossmünsterplatz 1, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
    Tel +41 44 575 07 07, Mobil +41 79 744 57 83
    Email: rene.schwarzenbach@schwarzenbach-recht.ch , Internet: www.schwarzenbach-recht.ch or
c) another registered shareholder of Sulzer Ltd. or
d) a depositary (bank or asset manager) or
e) your legal representative

Order your admission ticket with the registration, proxy and order form which is enclosed to the invitation. Fill in and sign the power of attorney on the back of your admission card and hand it over to the shareholder you appointed as your proxy representative.

If you return the signed Registration and Proxy Form indicating the corresponding box the representative officer will exercise your voting rights in line with all Board proposals.

Submit the signed Registration and Proxy Form indicating the corresponding box directly to the independent representative. A return envelop with his address is enclosed to the invitation for the Annual general Meeting. On the backside of the form, which is also enclosed for this purpose, you can give your voting instructions for each item on the agenda. If you do not expressly indicate an instruction, in the event of new and amended proposals your votes shall be cast in favor of the proposals of the Board of Directors of Sulzer Ltd.

If a company listed on the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange designates a representative officer, it must designate an "independent person whose representation can be authorized by the shareholders" (Article 689c of the Swiss Code of Obligations). The independent representative exercises the voting right as prescribed by the written voting instructions. If you do not expressively indicate how you wish your vote to be cast, your shares will be voted in accordance with the proposals of the Board of Directors of Sulzer Ltd.

Order the admission card using the reply coupon enclosed with the invitation. Fill in power of written attorney on the back of your admission card and submit the admission card with the voting material directly to your bank, including your written voting instructions.

As soon as you have received the admission card, you can delegate the power of attorney to one of the representatives mentioned above. The deadline is the date of the Annual General Meeting.
Delegating your voting rights to another shareholder or to your legal representative is possible until just before the Annual General Meeting begins. In the case of a representative officer or an independent representative, we kindly request that you take into account that an early return of all documents will facilitate the preparation of the Annual General Meeting.

In the event that you have not received the material or can no longer find it, please request a new one through the Sulzer Share Register (Corp.Aktienregister@sulzer.com) or latest at the information desk at the entrance to the Annual General Meeting. You will receive your admission card and voting material after proof of identification and verification of your name being listed in the share register as a shareholder entitled to vote.

Please contact your custodian bank or report this at the information desk at the entrance on the day of the Annual General Meeting.

Yes. In the event that you would like to refer to a particular agenda item at the Annual General Meeting, you must attend the Annual General Meeting and request to take the floor at the time of that particular item on the agenda. Please contact the information desk upon arrival at the entrance hall.
You can also ask questions in writing, sending them in written form to the Board of Directors of Sulzer Ltd. (address: Sulzer Ltd, General Secretary, Zürcherstrasse 14, 8401 Winterthur).

In the event that you have sold a portion of your shares: You are no longer entitled to vote for the shares you have sold. Please report this at the information desk at the entrance on the day of the Annual General Meeting so that you can obtain a rectified admission card and voting material.

In the event that you have sold all of your shares: You are no longer entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting and can no longer attend.

You are already a registered shareholder: shares purchased and registered before the book closing date (March 20, 2013) are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting (March 27, 2013); shares purchased between the book closing date and the Annual General Meeting are not entitled to vote.

You are a new shareholder: the registration must be made before the book closing date (one week before the Annual General Meeting).
In the event that an entry in the company share register is no longer possible, you are not entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. There is still the possibility to issue a guest card for you in order to attend the AGM without voting rights. Please report to the information desk at the entrance of the Annual General Meeting and show the receipt to prove your purchase of shares.

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