Company: ADZCF
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001159508-25-000020
Chunk: 551

Company: DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 551
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 share capital by issuing new shares for cash consideration. As of December 31, 2024, Deutsche Bank AG had authorized but unissued capital of € 2,560,000,000 which may be issued in whole or in part until April 30, 2026. Further details are governed by Section 4 of the Articles of Association.

| Authorized capital |     | Consideration |     | Pre-emptive rights                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |     | Expiration date |
| € 512,000,000      |     | Cash          |     | May be excluded pursuant to Section 186 (3) sentence 4 of the Stock Corporation Act and may be excluded in so far as it is necessary to grant pre-emptive rights to the holders of option rights, convertible bonds, and convertible participatory rights |     | April 30, 2026  |
| € 2,048,000,000    |     | Cash          |     | May be excluded in so far as it is necessary to grant pre-emptive rights to the holders of option rights, convertible bonds, and convertible participatory rights.                                                                                        |     | April 30, 2026  |

Conditional Capital

Deutsche Bank has no outstanding conditional capital as of December 31, 2024.

Dividends

The following table presents the amount of dividends proposed or declared for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

|                                                 |     | 2024(proposed) |     |        2023 |     |        2022 |
| Cash dividends declared (in € )                 |     |  1,312,959,884 |     | 882,615,288 |     | 609,934,751 |
| Cash dividends declared per common share (in €) |     |           0.68 |     |        0.45 |     |        0.30 |

No dividends have been declared since the balance sheet date.

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| Annual Report 2024 |

33 –Employee Benefits Share-Based Compensation Plans The Group made grants of share-based compensation under the Deutsche Bank Equity Plan. This plan represents a contingent right to receive Deutsche Bank common shares after a specified period of time. The award recipient is not entitled to receive dividends during the vesting period of the award. The share awards granted under the terms and conditions of the Deutsche Bank Equity Plan may be forfeited fully or partly