Alliance Trust PLC - Results of General Meeting
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Alliance Trust PLC - Results of General Meeting
Alliance Trust PLC (‘the Company’)
LEI: 213800SZZD4E2IOZ9W55
1 October 2024
Results of General Meeting
The Board of Alliance Trust plc (the "Company")
is pleased to announce that the following resolutions were approved
by the Company's shareholders at the general meeting of the Company
held today: (i) the ordinary resolution relating to the issue of
New Shares in connection with the proposed combination of the
assets of the Company with the assets of Witan Investment Trust plc
("Witan") (the "Issue"); (ii) the
ordinary resolution relating to general authority to allot shares
up to a maximum amount of shares equal to 10 per cent. of the
issued share capital of the enlarged Company immediately following
the Issue; (iii) the special resolution relating to general
authority to allot shares on a non-pre-emptive basis up to a
maximum amount of shares equal to 10 per cent. of the issued share
capital of the enlarged Company immediately following the Issue;
and (iv) the special resolution relating to the change of name of
the Company to 'Alliance Witan PLC'.
The Issue remains conditional upon, amongst other things, the
passing of the special resolution to be proposed at the Second
Witan General Meeting to be held on 9 October 2024.
Details of the number of votes cast for, against and withheld in
respect of the resolutions, which were voted on by way of poll, are
set out below and will also be published on the Company's website:
https://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/.
Resolution |
Number of Votes For (including Discretionary) |
% |
Number of Votes Against |
% |
Total Votes Cast |
% Issued Share Capital |
Votes Withheld |
Ordinary
|
Authority to allot New Shares in connection with the Issue |
73,038,707 |
99.17 |
611,326 |
0.83 |
73,650,033 |
26.15 |
41,923 |
Authority to allot new ordinary shares for general purposes up to
10 per cent. of Alliance Witan's issued Share capital
|
72,931,574 |
99.21 |
577,320 |
0.79 |
73,508,894 |
26.10 |
180,062 |
Special
|
Authority to allot shares on a non-pre-emptive basis for general
purposes up to 10 per cent. of Alliance Witan's issued Share
capital |
72,861,029 |
99.07 |
680,314 |
0.93 |
73,541,343 |
26.12 |
150,613 |
Conditional on the implementation of the Scheme, authority to
change the name of the Company to 'Alliance Witan PLC' |
72,183,425 |
98.95 |
763,633 |
1.05 |
72,947,058 |
25.90 |
771,658 |
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the
votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage
of the Company's total voting rights as at 6.00 p.m. on 27
September 2024 (281,604,600), being the time at which a Shareholder
had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at
the General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has
not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a Resolution.
The number of ordinary Shares in issue at the date of this
announcement is 284,244,600. On a poll the voting rights are one
vote for every one Share held. The number of voting rights is
280,992,600 (3,252,000 Shares being held in treasury).
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of
General Meeting contained in the Company’s circular to Shareholders
dated 12 September 2024 (the "Circular"). The
Circular is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism
which can be located at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the
Company’s website at https://www.alliancetrust.co.uk/.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2R, a copy of the
Resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and
will shortly be available for viewing at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For
more information, please contact:
|
Alliance
Trust PLC
Dean Buckley
|
|
Via Willis Towers
Watson or Juniper Partners |
Investec
Bank plc (Lead Financial Adviser, Sole Sponsor and Corporate Broker
to Alliance Trust)
David Yovichic, Denis Flanagan, Tom Skinner and Lucy Lewis
|
|
+44 (0)20 7597
4000 |
Dickson
Minto Advisers LLP (Joint Financial Adviser to Alliance
Trust
Douglas Armstrong
|
|
+44 (0)20 7649
6823 |
Willis
Towers Watson (Investment Manager, Alliance Trust)
Mark Atkinson
|
|
+44 (0)7918
724303 |
Juniper
Partners Limited (Company Secretary, Alliance Trust) |
|
+44 (0)131 378
0500 |
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