Company: SGBAF
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-000378
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Company: SES S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form: DRS/A
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 Global Enterprise Solutions in 2022.

SES’s competitors include other satellite operators operating in various orbits, such as Starlink, Viasat-Inmarsat, Eutelsat OneWeb,
EchoStar and its subsidiary Hughes, and Telesat, as well as many national and regional operators. SES also faces vigorous competition from suppliers of terrestrial communications (fibre, copper lines or coaxial cables, 2G/3G/4G/5G or microwave).

Employees and Human Capital Resources

SES’s human capital resources objectives include identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing and integrating its existing and new
employees, in addition to offering attractive & fair compensation and benefits to its employees. SES engages contractors and third-party service providers in connection with its business operation and certain of its employees are a party to
collective bargaining agreements.

As of December 31, 2023, SES employed about 2,314 people worldwide, a majority of which are based
in Luxembourg and in the U.S. About 90 different nationalities are represented at SES. Per number of employees, U.S., Germany, Israel, France and Romania are the top five nationalities represented at SES.

Intellectual Property

SES has a
significant portfolio of international patents and internationally registered trademarks. SES protects its proprietary business information, products, services and branding in a variety of ways, including by relying on patent and trademark
laws, trade secrets laws, entry into agreements that include confidentiality, non-disclosure and data protection clauses and by complying with its internal intellectual property policies and procedures.

Besides a trademark proceeding which is currently pending as settlement negotiations are ongoing between SES and the claimant, SES is
currently not involved in any material intellectual property legal proceedings or litigation.

Property, Plant and Equipment

SES is headquartered in Betzdorf, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and it is home to the company’s administrative headquarters and one of its
prime satellite operation centers. The land that underlies SES’s Luxembourg operations is partially owned, and partially leased on a long-term basis from the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, pursuant to a lease that expires in 2029.

SES also has key offices in The Hague (Netherlands), Reston (Virginia), Bristow (Virginia), Washington D.C., Unterföhring (Germany),
Bucharest (Romania), São Paulo (Brazil), Dubai and Singapore. In Israel, SES has an office and a teleport at Emek HaEla. In total, SES leases or owns more than