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Universal Registration Document: 2019/2020

Published by Nacon

Summary

Société anonyme governed by a Board of Directors with share capital of €84,908,919 Registered office: 396/466, Rue de la Voyette, CRT 2, 59273 Fretin, France Registration number: 852 538 461 RCS Lille Métropole UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT This universal registration document was approved on 7 July by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (“AMF”) as the competent authority in respect of regulation (EU) 2017/1129.

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NACON Société anonyme governed by a Board of Directors with share capital of €84,908,919 Registered office: 396/466, Rue de la Voyette, CRT 2, 59273 Fretin, France Registration number: 852 538 461 RCS Lille Métropole (the "Company") UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT "An integrated pure player in video games" This universal registration document was approved on 7 July by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (“AMF”) as the competent authority in respect of regulation (EU) 2017/1129. The AMF approved this document after verifying that the information it contains is complete, consistent and comprehensible. The URD is approved under number R. 20-014. Such approval should not be construed as a favourable opinion of the issuer subject of this URD. The URD may be used for the purposes of a public offering of financial securities or the admission of financial securities to trading on a regulated market if accompanied by a securities note and, where applicable, a summary and any supplements to the URD. The whole is approved by the AMF in accordance with regulation (EU) 2017/1129. The URD is valid until 6 July 2021. In accordance with articles 10 and 23 of regulation (EU) 2017/1129, the URD must be completed by a supplement during that period and at the latest at the same time as the securities note should new significant factors or material errors or inaccuracies occur.

. The URD is valid until 6 July 2021. In accordance with articles 10 and 23 of regulation (EU) 2017/1129, the URD must be completed by a supplement during that period and at the latest at the same time as the securities note should new significant factors or material errors or inaccuracies occur. Copies of this universal registration document are available free of charge from Nacon's registered office at 396/466, Rue de la Voyette, CRT 2, 59273 Fretin, and in electronic form from the AMF website (www.amffrance.org) and the Nacon's website (www.nacon.fr).

GENERAL INFORMATION The Universal Registration Document (URD) describes the Company as it exists on the date this URD was registered. The URD, prepared in accordance with appendix I of Commission delegated regulation (EU) no. 2019/980 of 14 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017, presents the statutory financial statements for the period ended 31 March 2020 and the corresponding consolidated financial statements. It incorporates by reference the combined financial statements for the periods ended 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2018, which are presented in the registration document approved by the AMF on 29 January 2020 under number I. 20-003. Those financial statements were the subject of an audit report issued by one of the Company's statutory auditors, which contained an emphasis of matter paragraph relating to Note 2.1.2 "Basis of preparation of the combined financial statements" of the notes to those financial statements, which describes the combination principles and conventions. Forward-looking statements

f the Company's statutory auditors, which contained an emphasis of matter paragraph relating to Note 2.1.2 "Basis of preparation of the combined financial statements" of the notes to those financial statements, which describes the combination principles and conventions. Forward-looking statements The URD contains information about NACON’s prospects and development strategy. Such information is sometimes identified by the use of the future tense, the conditional mood or forward-looking terms such as “consider”, “envisage”, “think”, “aim”, “expect”, “intend”, “should”, “have the ambition of”, "estimate", “believe”, “wish”, “could”, or the negative forms of the same terms as the case may be, or any other variant or similar expression. This information does not constitute historical facts and must not be construed as warranting that the anticipated events and data mentioned will actually materialise. The information is based on data, assumptions and estimates that the Company considers reasonable. It is liable to change or be altered due to uncertainties concerning the technological, economic, financial, competitive and regulatory environment. The information is mentioned in various sections of the URD and includes data relating to NACON’s intentions, estimates and objectives concerning, in particular, the Company’s markets, products, strategy, commercial roll-out, growth, results, financial position and cash position. The forward-looking information in the URD is provided only at the URD's filing date.

udes data relating to NACON’s intentions, estimates and objectives concerning, in particular, the Company’s markets, products, strategy, commercial roll-out, growth, results, financial position and cash position. The forward-looking information in the URD is provided only at the URD's filing date. Barring any statutory or regulatory obligation that may apply (including regulation (EU) no. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse), the Company makes no undertaking to publish updates to the forward-looking information contained in this URD in order to reflect any change relating to its objectives or to events, conditions or circumstances on which the forward-looking information in this URD is based. The Company operates in an environment that is highly competitive and subject to ongoing technological change. It may therefore be unable to anticipate all risks, uncertainties or other factors that may affect its business activity, their potential impact on its business activity or the extent to which the materialisation of a risk or combination of risks could produce results significantly different from those mentioned in any forward-looking information, it being understood that none of that forward-looking information is a guarantee of actual results. Information about the market and the competition

rialisation of a risk or combination of risks could produce results significantly different from those mentioned in any forward-looking information, it being understood that none of that forward-looking information is a guarantee of actual results. Information about the market and the competition The URD contains, particularly in Section 5 “Business overview”, information about NACON’s business and its competitive position. Some information contained in the URD is information available to the public that the Company considers to be reliable but that has not been verified by an independent expert. The Company cannot guarantee that a third party using different methods for collating, analysing or calculating business segment data would obtain the same results. Given the rapid changes in the technological and competitive environment, this information may prove inaccurate or out-of-date. Accordingly, trends in NACON’s business activities may depart from those presented in this URD. The Company makes no undertaking to publish updates to that information, except as part of applicable legislative or regulatory obligations, including those arising from regulation (EU) no. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse. Risk factors

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