Investors

Trading in ADRs

You can purchase or sell BASF ADRs like any other OTC traded ADRs via your broker.

Our depositary bank is BNY, who provides the following services for ADR holders:

Recording and maintaining the register of ADR holders
Acting as transfer agent
Distributing dividends in US dollars
Facilitating the proxy voting process and exercising the voting rights on behalf of ADR holders

ADR contact information

Registered ADR holders:

BASF registered ADR holders (not holding ADRs through a Brokerage account), can access their account information via the following contacts:

BNY Shareowner Services

P.O. Box 43006, Providence RI 02940-3078, USA

Overnight correspondence should be mailed to:

BNY Shareowner Services

150 Royall St., Suite 101, Canton, MA 02021, USA

+1 888 269 2377 (toll-free number in the U.S.) / +1 201 680 6825 (international) Send email

Website: www.mybnymdr.com

If you are an individual but not a registered holder, please contact your broker directly.

Brokers and institutional investors who have a question about issuing or cancelling ADRs may directly contact BNY’s ADR broker desk:

BNY’s ADR broker desk - New York

Send email

BNY’s ADR broker desk - Global

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Website: www.adrbnymellon.com

Stock Transfer Web Page

If you are interested in purchasing BASF ADRs please refer to the following link:
www.mybnymdr.com

There you will get the following information:

Registered Shareholder Enrollment Form
New Account Application

General Meetings (AGMs and EGMs)

For those holders who are not registered because their shares are held through a “Street name” (nominee account), your nominee will receive company documents from BNY to distribute to ADR holders. You need to make arrangements with your nominee if you wish to receive such documents and to be able to exercise your vote through the depositary bank at general meetings.

The exchange ratio between BASF ADRs to ordinary shares is 4:1, i.e. four BASF ADR represent one BASF ordinary share.

Transfer of BASF ordinary shares into ADRs

If you are a shareholder resident in the U.S. and experience any problems transferring BASF ordinary shares into ADRs, you may directly contact BNY:

New York

Irina Samoila

Richard J Maehr

+ 1 212 815 8025 Send email