Sword Group: Notification of Threshold Crossing

By letter received on May 13, 2025, the simplified joint-stock company Indépendance AM (20 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 75008 Paris), acting on behalf of funds under its management, declared that on May 8, 2025, it had crossed upwards the thresholds of 5% of the share capital and voting rights of Sword Group. It stated that it holds, on behalf of the aforementioned funds, 512,929 Sword Group shares, representing the same number of voting rights, i.e., 5.37% of the company’s share capital and voting rights (i).