Capgemini has announced the launch of its twelfth Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), reinforcing its policy of aligning employees with the Group’s growth and performance. The plan will be open to approximately 98 per cent of employees worldwide and will be implemented through a capital increase reserved exclusively for staff, covering up to 2,700,000 shares (representing 1.58 per cent of outstanding shares).
With the 2020 ESOP reaching its term at the end of this year, the new plan is designed to maintain employee shareholding at around eight per cent of Capgemini SE’s share capital.
Under the planned schedule, the reservation period will run from 12 September to 1 October,, 2025, followed by a subscription and revocation period from 12 November to 14 November, 2025. The subscription price of the new shares will be set on 6 November, 2025, and the capital increase will be finalised on 18 December, 2025.
Employees will be able to subscribe under leveraged and guaranteed formulas, designed to safeguard participants against potential losses during the non-tradable period of the shares. Voting rights will be exercised either through an FCPE (Fonds Commun de Placement d’Entreprise), directly by employees, or by the financial institution structuring the offer, depending on the formula chosen.
To support the leveraged guaranteed offering, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank will conduct hedging transactions on- or off-market. These may include purchase and sale of shares, acquisition of call options, or other financial operations. Such transactions may take place at any time, including during the reference price fixing period (9 October to 5 November, 2025) and throughout the full duration of the plan, which extends until 18 December, 2030.
