EANS-General Meeting: Lenzing AG / Invitation to the General Meeting

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Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft ("Company")
with its registered office in Lenzing
Commercial Register No. ("FN") 96499 k
ISIN: AT 0000644505

I n v i t a t i o n

to the

73rd Annual General Meeting of our Company

to be held on Tuesday, 25 April 2017 at 10:30 a.m. (CEST) at the
Kulturzentrum Lenzing, Johann-Böhm-Straße 1, 4860 Lenzing.

Agenda:

1. Presentation of the adopted annual financial statements and the
management report and corporate governance report, consolidated
financial statements and group management report, each as of December
31, 2016, presentation of the proposal for the use of profits, and of
the report of the Supervisory Board on the business year 2016

2. Adopting a resolution on the use of the net profit shown in the
2016 annual financial statements

3. Adopting a resolution on discharge of the Members of the
Management Board for the business year 2016

4. Adopting a resolution on discharge of the Members of the
Supervisory Board for the business year 2016

5. Adopting a resolution on the compensation of members of the
Supervisory Board for the business year 2016

6. Elections to the Supervisory Board

7. Election of the auditor of the annual financial statements and
consolidated financial statements for the business year 2017

Opportunity for shareholders to inspect records pursuant to section
108 sub-sections 3 and 4 of the Stock Corporations Act ("AktG")
(section 106 pt. 4 of the Stock Corporations Act)

In addition to the complete text of this convocation and the forms
for appointing and revoking appointment of a proxy holder according
to section 114 Stock Corporations Act, the following documents and
records will be available at the latest from the 21st day preceding
the Annual General Meeting for inspection on the Company website
www.lenzing.com under Annual General Meeting 2017, but prospectively
already from 23 March 2017.

- Annual financial statements and management report,
- Corporate governance report,
- Consolidated financial statements and group management report,
- Proposal for the use of profits,
- Report of the Supervisory Board,

each relating to the business year 2016;

- Proposed resolutions on items 2. - 7. of the agenda, - Ad agenda
item 6.: Curriculum vitae of the candidates to be appointed to the
Supervisory Board pursuant to section 87 subsection 2 of the Stock
Corporations Act.

These documents will additionally be available at the Annual General
Meeting. Upon request each shareholder will be provided with a copy
of the aforementioned documents immediately and free of charge.

Information on shareholders' rights pursuant to sections 109, 110 and
118 of the Stock Corporations Act (section 106 pt. 5 of the Stock
Corporations Act)

Pursuant to section 109 of the Stock Corporations Act, shareholders
whose aggregate shareholding equals five percent or more of the
nominal capital may request in written form that additional items be
put on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting and published. Each
motion for an item to be put on the agenda must be accompanied by a
proposal for a resolution with statement of reasons. Shareholders
filing such a motion must have held the shares continuously for at
least three months prior to filing the motion. Any such request by
shareholders must be received by the Company no later than on the
21st day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e. by 04 April 2017. In
case of an additional item to be put on the agenda, the supplemented
agenda of the Annual General Meeting will be announced publicly,
electronically on the company website www.lenzing.com Annual General
Meeting 2017 no later than 06 April 2017, as well as in the same way
as the original agenda (in the official gazette to the "Wiener
Zeitung") no later than 11 April 2017.

Pursuant to section 110 of the Stock Corporations Act, shareholders
whose aggregate shareholding equals one percent or more of the
nominal capital may submit proposed resolutions in text form
concerning any item on the agenda, and request that these be made
available on the Company website, together with the name of the
respective shareholders, a statement of reasons to be submitted with
the proposal, and any comments of the Management Board or Supervisory
Board. Requests of this kind will only be considered when received by
the Company no later than on the 7th working day before the Annual
General Meeting, i.e. by 13 April 2017. In case of a proposal for the
election of a Supervisory Board member the statement of the proposed
person pursuant to section 87 subsection 2 of the Stock Corporations
Act replaces the statement of reasons. Such proposed resolutions will
be made available on the company website www.lenzing.com Annual
General Meeting 2017 no more than two days from receipt and no later
than 18 April 2017.

Pursuant to section 118 of the Stock Corporations Act, any
shareholder shall be provided with information on the Company's
affairs upon request at the Annual General Meeting to the extent that
such information is required for proper assessment of an item on the
agenda. This obligation to provide information shall also extend to
the legal and business relationships of the Company with affiliated
companies, the state of affairs of the group, and the companies
included in the consolidated financial statements.

The Company may deny providing information to the extent that
according to sound business judgment it might cause material damage
to the Company or any affiliated company or if providing such
information would constitute a punishable offense. Providing
information may also be denied if such information has been
continuously available on the Company website in the form of question
and answer for at least seven days prior to the beginning of the
Annual General Meeting.

We kindly ask the shareholders to send any questions requiring
extensive preparation to answer to the Company in in written form in
due time prior to the Annual General Meeting.

For the purpose of providing proof of shareholder status in order to
exercise the above mentioned shareholders' rights it is sufficient if
holders of deposited bearer shares submit a deposit certificate
(Depotbestätigung) within the meaning of section 10a Stock
Corporations Act. Any rights of shareholders subject to a specific
holding period may be exercised only if the submitted deposit
certificate gives proof of the shareholder status during the relevant
period. A deposit certificate used to prove current shareholder
status must not be older than seven days when submitted to the
Company.

Further information on shareholders' rights, in particular under
sections 109, 110 and 118 of the Stock Corporations Act, is also
available on the company website at www.lenzing.com Annual General
Meeting 2017.

Any motions for putting additional items on the agenda pursuant to
section 109 of the Stock Corporations Act, including enclosures,
shall be submitted to the Company exclusively by mail or courier
service in written form (Lenzing AG, Werkstrasse 2, 4860 Lenzing)
attn. Mag. Waltraud Kaserer.

Proposals for resolutions pursuant to section 110 of the Stock
Corporations Act, including enclosures, as well as any questions
shall be submitted to the Company exclusively by mail or courier
service (Lenzing AG, Werkstrasse 2, 4860 Lenzing), by fax (+43 (0)
7672/918-2713) or email (Hauptversammlung_2017@lenzing.com; the
documents in text form, e.g. as a PDF-file, must be attached to the
e-mail) attn. Mag. Waltraud Kaserer.

Record date and conditions of attendance of the Annual General
Meeting pursuant to section 111 of the Stock Corporations Act
(section 106 points 6 and 7 of the Stock Corporations Act)

Pursuant to section 111 sub-section 1 of the Stock Corporations Act,
the right to attend the Annual General Meeting and to exercise the
shareholders' rights that are exercised during the Annual General
Meeting is determined by the shares held at the end of the tenth day
before the date of the Annual General Meeting (Record Date),
consequently on the shares held on Saturday, 15 April 2017, 12:00
p.m. (CEST).

Participation in the Annual General Meeting is limited to persons who
are shareholders on the Record Date and supply proof thereof to the
Company.

In case of deposited bearer shares proof of shareholding at the
Record Date is provided by submitting a deposit certificate pursuant
to section 10a of the Stock Corporations Act. The deposit certificate
shall be issued by the depositary bank based in a member state of the
European Economic Area or in a full member state of the OECD. The
deposit certificate must contain at least the information required
according to section 10a sub-section 2 of the Stock Corporations Act.
Deposit certificates will be accepted in German and English.

Proof of shareholder status at the Record Date in the form of a
deposit certificate must be received through one of the following
communication channels and addresses no later than on the third
working day before the Annual General Meeting, i.e. by 20 April 2017:
By mail or courier service (Lenzing AG, c/o Computershare Operations
Center, 80249 Munich), by email (anmeldestelle@computershare.de)
using a qualified electronic signature, by SWIFT BIC COMRGB2L
(message type MT598, stating ISIN AT 0000644505 in the text), in
advance also by fax (+49 (0) 89 30903 74675) and by (non qualified)
email (anmeldestelle@computershare.de).

Further information on the conditions of participation in the Annual
General Meeting, is also available on the Company website at
www.lenzing.com Annual General Meeting 2017.

Appointment of a proxy holder pursuant to sections 113 et seq Stock
Corporations Act (section 106 pt. 8 of the said Act)

Any shareholder entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting shall
be entitled to appoint a natural or legal person as proxy holder. The
proxy holder may attend the Annual General Meeting on behalf of the
shareholder and will have the same rights as the shareholder
represented. The Company itself or a member of the Management Board
or Supervisory Board may exercise voting rights as a proxy holder
only insofar as the shareholder has explicitly provided detailed
voting instructions regarding the individual items of the agenda.

The proxy must be granted to a specific person. A proxy in text form
shall be sufficient in any case. If a shareholder has granted power
of proxy to the depositary bank (section 10a of the Stock
Corporations Act) it shall be sufficient if in addition to submitting
the deposit certificate the bank makes a statement that it has been
granted power of proxy. It is also possible to grant power of proxy
to multiple persons. Forms for granting power of proxy which may also
be used to grant limited power of proxy are available on the Company
website www.lenzing.com under Annual General Meeting 2017.

The proxy must be received no later than on 24 April 2017, 1.00 p.m.
(CEST) exclusively by mail or courier service (Lenzing AG, c/o
Computershare Operations Center, 80249 München), by fax (+49 (0) 89
30903 74675), email (anmeldestelle@computershare.de) or by SWIFT BIC
COMRGB2L; the proxy in text form, e.g. as PDF-file, must be attached
to the e-mail and will be kept by the Company.

On the day of the Annual General Meeting the proxy may only be
submitted upon registration for the Annual General Meeting at the
venue of the meeting. The aforementioned provisions on granting power
of proxy apply analogously to the revocation of power of proxy. Any
revocation shall be valid only when received at one of the
aforementioned addresses respectively by the Company.

As a special, free of charge service shareholders who are not able or
do not wish to attend the Annual General Meeting in person may have
their voting rights in the Annual General Meeting exercised by Mr
Michael Knap as representative of the "Interessenverband für Anleger"
(IVA, Austrian Association of Investors), 1130 Vienna, Feldmühlgasse
22. As independent proxy holder Mr Michael Knap will exercise the
voting rights exclusively in accordance with and bound by voting
instructions given by the respective shareholders regarding the
individual items of the agenda. However, shareholders intending to
grant power of proxy are not obliged to appoint Mr Michael Knap as
their proxy holder. A special form for granting power of proxy or
revocation of proxy to Mr Michael Knap (only available in German) may
be downloaded at the Company website at www.lenzing.com Annual
General Meeting 2017. The proxy granted to Mr Michael Knap must be
received no later than on 24 April 2017, 1.00 p.m. (CEST) exclusively
by mail or courier service (Lenzing AG, c/o Computershare Operations
Center, 80249 München), by fax (+49 (0) 89 30903 74675), email
(anmeldestelle@computershare.de) or by SWIFT BIC COMRGB2L; the proxy
in text form, e.g. as PDF-file, must be attached to the e-mail) and
will be kept by the Company.

Further information on the granting of proxy to Mr Michael Knap is
also available on the Company website at www.lenzing.com Annual
General Meeting 2017. Shareholders may also contact Mr Michael Knap
directly by tel: +43 (0) 664 213 8740, by fax: +43 (0) 1 876 33 43-39
or by e-mail: michael.knap@iva.or.at.

Total number of shares and voting rights at the date of convocation
of the Annual General Meeting (Section 106 pt. 9 of the Stock
Corporations Act)

At the date of convocation of the Annual General Meeting, the nominal
capital of the Company amounts to EUR 27.574.071,43 and is divided
into 26.550.000 nopar value bearer shares. Each no-par value share
grants one vote. At the date of the convocation of the Annual General
Meeting, the Company does not hold own shares. Thus, the total number
of shares entitled to participate and vote amounts to 26.550.000 at
the date of the convocation of the Annual General Meeting.

Doors for the Annual General Meeting will open on 25 April 2017, at
09:45 a.m. (CEST).

The shareholders and proxy holders are requested to show an identity
document with a photograph (passport, ID card, driver's license) at
the entrance to the Annual General Meeting. We kindly ask the
shareholders and proxy holders to take into account the high number
of participants to be expected and the usual safety precautions when
planning the timing of their arrival.

This document is published in German and in a non-binding English
convenience translation.

Lenzing, March 2017
The Management Board

Further inquiry note:
Lenzing AG
Mag. Waltraud Kaserer
Vice President Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
Tel.: +43 (0) 7672 701-2713
mailto:w.kaserer@lenzing.com

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issuer: Lenzing AG

A-A-4860 Lenzing
phone: +43 7672-701-0
FAX: +43 7672-96301
mail: office@lenzing.com
WWW: http://www.lenzing.com
sector: Chemicals
ISIN: AT0000644505
indexes: WBI, ATX, Prime Market
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English

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