6-K 1 exhibit991.htm exhibit991
1
MERGER BETWEEN UBS AG AND CREDIT SUISSE AG
Pursuant to the merger agreement dated 7 December 2023
 
between UBS AG (“UBS Parent Bank”) and Credit Suisse AG (“Credit
Suisse Parent Bank”),
 
and in accordance with applicable provisions of Swiss law,
 
on 31 May 2024 Credit Suisse Parent Bank
merged with and into UBS Parent Bank. UBS Parent Bank being
 
the absorbing company continues to operate and Credit Suisse
Parent Bank being the absorbed company ceased to exist (the “Transaction”).
 
Under the terms of the merger agreement, all of the
outstanding ordinary shares of Credit Suisse Parent Bank were cancelled;
 
no consideration was paid as all of the outstanding
shares of each of UBS Parent Bank and Credit Suisse Parent Bank were
 
owned by UBS Group AG.
 
 
2
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL
 
INFORMATION
All amounts in this section are in US dollars (USD) unless otherwise specified.
 
The abbreviation “bn” is used to represent
“billion”. The abbreviation “m” is used to represent “million”. Numbers
 
presented throughout this section may not add up
precisely to the totals provided in the tables and text due to rounding.
 
The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information
 
is intended to illustrate the effect of the transaction
(as previously defined) and comprises the unaudited pro forma condensed
 
combined income statement of UBS AG for the year
ended 31 December 2024, prepared as if the Transaction
 
occurred on 1 January 2024.
A pro forma balance sheet as of 31 December 2024 is not presented or required as the
 
balance sheet in UBS AG’s Annual Report
on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2024, filed with the SEC on 17 March
 
2025, includes the effect of the Credit
Suisse AG merger.
The Transaction is a business combination of
 
entities under common control (a “common control transaction”) as defined under
IFRS 3
Business Combinations
 
since UBS Group AG is the common 100% shareholder of the two entities as of
 
12 June 2023,
when the Group merger occurred, and it controls
 
the two businesses merged before and after the Transaction.
 
IFRS 3
Business
Combinations
 
specifically scopes out such transactions; therefore, the application of the acquisition
 
method is not required.
Instead, in the absence of a specific IFRS Accounting Standards requirement,
 
UBS Parent Bank applied the
carry over basis
 
(also
referred to as the predecessor accounting method) consistent with previous UBS group
 
-internal legal entity transactions and as
commonly applied under Swiss regulations.
Under the carry over basis, the IFRS Accounting Standards-equivalent
 
financial statement carrying amounts of Credit Suisse
Parent Bank are added across each line item with the UBS Parent Bank financial
 
statement amounts, as at the transaction date. No
adjustments are made to reflect, for example, the fair value of amortized
 
cost financial assets and liabilities and the fair value of
non-financial assets and liabilities that were recorded in the UBS Group AG consolidated
 
financial statements as a result of
applying the acquisition method as required under IFRS 3
Business Combinations
 
on 31 May 2023 for the acquisition of Credit
Suisse Group AG (note that with the acquisition date of 12 June 2023, for
 
convenience the Credit Suisse Group was consolidated
with effect from 31 May 2023, as the effect of transactions
 
and activities in the period from 31 May 2023 to 12 June 2023 on the
consolidated financial statements was not material).
 
The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information
 
is presented for illustrative purposes only and reflects
estimates and assumptions made by UBS Parent Bank’s
 
management that it considers reasonable. The unaudited pro forma
condensed combined financial information does not purport to represent
 
what UBS Parent Bank’s actual results of
 
operations or
financial condition would have been had the Transaction
 
occurred on 1 January 2024, nor is it necessarily indicative of future
results of operations
 
or financial condition. Adjustments enumerated in this document are pro
 
forma in nature and are relevant for
the combination of the UBS Parent Bank and Credit Suisse Parent Bank only.
 
Such adjustments are not relevant for UBS Group
AG consolidated reporting, unless otherwise disclosed in the audited
 
consolidated financial statements of UBS Group AG as of
and for the year ended 31 December 2024, included in the UBS Group AG Annual
 
Report.
The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information
 
does not reflect expense efficiencies, asset dispositions or
business reorganizations that are or may be contemplated,
 
or any cost or revenue synergies, including any potential
 
restructuring
actions other than those that were reflected in the actual 2024 results.
The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information
 
for the year ended 31 December 2024 should be read in
conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of UBS Parent Bank and the
 
accompanying notes included in its 2024
Annual Report on Form 20-F,
 
as well as the additional disclosures contained therein. This document
 
is available on UBS’s
website at www.ubs.com/investors
 
and at the SEC’s website at
 
www.sec.gov.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3
USD millions
UBS AG
consolidated
(IFRS
Accounting
Standards)
Credit Suisse
AG
consolidated
(IFRS
Accounting
Standards)
1
Transaction
accounting
adjustment
2
Condensed
Combined
Income
Statement
(IFRS
Accounting
Standards)
Net interest income
 
4,678
 
1,223
 
-
 
 
5,901
Other net income from financial
 
instruments
measured at fair value through
 
profit or loss
 
12,959
 
1,387
 
-
 
 
14,346
Net fee and commission income
 
23,438
 
1,611
 
-
 
 
25,048
Other income
 
1,248
 
677
 
(479)
 
1,446
Total revenues
 
42,323
 
4,898
 
(479)
 
46,742
Credit loss expense / (release)
 
544
 
208
 
-
 
 
752
Personnel
 
expenses
 
19,958
 
2,884
 
-
 
 
22,842
General
 
and administrative expenses
 
16,548
 
2,224
 
(479)
 
18,293
Depreciation, amortization and impairment
 
of
non-financial assets
 
2,840
 
368
 
-
 
 
3,208
Operating
 
expenses
 
39,346
 
5,476
 
(479)
 
44,344
Operating
 
profit
 
/ (loss) before tax
 
2,433
 
(786)
 
-
 
1,647
Tax expense / (benefit)
 
900
 
16
 
-
 
 
916
Net profit
 
/ (loss)
 
 
1,533
 
(802)
 
-
 
 
730
Net profit / (loss) attributable
 
to non-controlling
interests
 
51
 
(5)
 
-
 
 
46
Net profit
 
/ (loss) attributable
 
to shareholders
 
1,481
 
(798)
 
-
 
 
684
Historical
Pro Forma
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Income Statement
 
for the year ended 31 December 2024
1
Reflects the pre-merger unaudited historical condensed
 
income statement of Credit Suisse Parent Bank for the five-month
period ended 31 May 2024 derived from Credit Suisse Parent Bank's books and
 
records prepared under IFRS Accounting
Standards.
 
Refer to Note 1 in the explanatory notes for further information.
2
Refer to Note 2) in the explanatory notes for further information.
See accompanying notes.
 
 
4
Explanatory notes to unaudited pro forma condensed combined
 
financial information
(in USDm except where otherwise indicated)
Note 1: Basis of preparation
The unaudited pro forma combined income statement for the year ended
 
31 December 2024 was prepared as if the Transaction
occurred on 1 January 2024.
No adjustments have been reflected in the unaudited pro forma condensed
 
combined income statement for the effects of items that
have been considered to be immaterial.
Following the acquisition by UBS Group AG, Credit Suisse transitioned
 
its accounting systems to IFRS. From 1 January 2024,
Credit Suisse Parent Bank has been producing IFRS financial information
 
directly from its accounting systems without conversion
from U.S. GAAP.
 
During the first half of 2024 Credit Suisse Parent Bank modified its IFRS accounting
 
systems to accommodate
the integration of its financial information into UBS AG on a common control
 
basis from the actual merger date of 31 May 2024.
Accordingly, the
 
Credit Suisse Parent Bank pro forma IFRS income statement amounts for the five-month
 
period ended 31 May
2024,
 
derived from its IFRS books and records and other information available, have been extracted
 
directly from its accounting
systems.
 
The UBS Parent Bank unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statement
 
for the year ended 31 December 2024 was
sourced from (i) the audited consolidated income statement of UBS Parent Bank
 
contained in the UBS Annual Report for the year
ended 31 December 2024 and (ii) the unaudited historical condensed
 
IFRS consolidated income statement of Credit Suisse Parent
Bank on a common control basis for the five-month period ended 31 May 2024
 
derived from its IFRS books and records and other
information available. As the actual merger was effected
 
on 31 May 2024, UBS Parent Bank’s unaudited
 
historical condensed
consolidated income statement for year ended 31 December 2024 contains
 
Credit Suisse Parent Bank’s consolidated
 
income
statement activity for the seven-month period ended 31 December
 
2024. Collectively, the two sources
 
represent consolidated
income statement activity of both UBS Parent Bank and Credit Suisse Parent Bank for
 
the year ended 31 December 2024.
A transaction accounting adjustment was applied to eliminate consolidated
 
income statement balances arising from intercompany
exposures and transactions between UBS Parent Bank and Credit Suisse Parent
 
Bank during the five-month period ended 31 May
2024. See Note 2 below.
Note 2: Transaction
 
accounting adjustment
UBS Parent Bank has reviewed exposures and transactions with Credit Suisse Parent Bank
 
to identify intercompany income
statement amounts for the five-month period ended 31 May 2024. The
 
only material intercompany income statement amounts
impacting the line items presented relate to the remuneration of staff
 
seconded from Credit Suisse Parent Bank to UBS Parent
Bank. Remuneration for such staff is recognized by Credit
 
Suisse Parent Bank in “Other income” while UBS Parent Bank records
the equal and opposite expense in “General and administrative expenses”. Accordingly,
 
intercompany secondment income and
expense of 479m, recognized during the five-month period ended
 
31 May 2024, have been eliminated.