To: Financial Supervisory Authority - Financial Instruments and Investments Sector
Bucharest Stock Exchange
Regulated Market
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From: IMPACT DEVELOPER & CONTRACTOR S.A.
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16 March 2023
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CURRENT REPORT
according to the provisions of Law No. 24/2017 on issuers of financial instruments and market operations and Regulation No. 5/2018 of FSA on Issuers of Financial Instruments and Market Operations
Important events to be reported: Information on litigation involving the company
The Company informs its shareholders and investors with regard to the court’s ruling in File No. 1032/1259/2012 on the dockets of the Pitesti Court of Appeal in which Clearline Development and Management S.R.L. (the project company owned by Impact Developer & Contractor S.A.) requested that the Local Council of Cluj-Napoca Municipality and Cluj-Napoca Municipality – through the Mayor – be compelled to pay compensation amounting to RON 24,532,741.65 (VAT included) as prejudice plus the legal penalty interest calculated until 01.04.2021 totaling RON 13,862,967.16.
On 15.03.2023, the Pitesti Court of Appeal issued Decision No. 94, as follows:
“The court rejects the appeal against the court minutes. It admits the appeal against the decision. It partially changes the decision, in the sense that it rejects the application, as amended, filed by the plaintiff. It removes the mention that the defendants pay the plaintiffs’ court expenses. It maintains the remainder of the decision. Subject to recourse within 15 days from its communication.”
Clearline Development and Management S.R.L. shall file recourse within the legal term.
In the first instance, the Arges Tribunal ruled in favor of Clearline Development and Management S.R.L., compelling the Local Council of Cluj-Napoca Municipality and Cluj-Napoca Municipality to jointly pay it RON 24,532,741.65 as prejudice and RON 13,862,967.16 representing the legal penalty interest.
The litigation arose from the contractual relationship from 2007, when Impact Developer & Contractor S.A. concluded an association agreement with the Local Council of Cluj-Napoca Municipality, based on which Impact Developer & Contractor S.A. was to develop a residential project on the plot of land which the Cluj Local Council had to bring as contribution – the “Lomb Project”. In the Company’s opinion, the contractual relationship was not carried out as agreed, the Local Council of Cluj-Napoca Municipality did not contribute the plot of land to the social capital of Clearline Development and Management S.R.L., and the latter initiated legal actions in order to recover the amounts spent with the investments made for the Lomb Project.
IMPACT DEVELOPER & CONTRACTOR S.A.
General Manager
Constantin Sebesanu