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Legal & General Group Plc

21 May 2020

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 21 MAY 2020

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at 1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

 
Resolution                            For (1)                 Against        Votes Withheld 
                                                                                   (2) 
                              No. of shares(1)    %     No. of shares   % 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ---- 
Resolution 1 
 Receipt of financial 
 statements for the 
 year ended 31 December 
 2019                          4,301,033,565    100.00     51,627      0.00    5,511,070 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 2 
 Declaration of a 
 final dividend of 
 12.64p per ordinary 
 share                         4,292,766,661    99.68    13,687,097    0.32     142,504 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 3 
 Election of Michelle 
 Scrimgeour as a 
 Director                      4,272,635,530    99.22    33,521,729    0.78     439,003 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 4 
 Re-election of Henrietta 
 Baldock as a Director         4,268,136,293    99.12    37,713,879    0.88     746,090 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 5 
 Re-election of Philip 
 Broadley as a Director        4,260,794,963    99.02    42,094,708    0.98    3,706,591 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 6 
 Re-election of Jeff 
 Davies as a Director          4,262,572,077    98.99    43,433,340    1.01     590,845 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 7 
 Re-election of Sir 
 John Kingman as 
 a Director                    4,259,991,962    98.93    46,028,067    1.07     576,233 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 8 
 Re-election of Lesley 
 Knox as a Director            4,216,364,534    97.99    86,648,594    2.01    3,583,134 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 9 
 Re-election of George 
 Lewis as a Director           4,256,640,622    98.92    46,259,430    1.08    3,696,210 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 10 
 Re-election of Kerrigan 
 Procter as a Director         4,272,099,397    99.21    33,914,838    0.79     582,027 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 11 
 Re-election of Toby 
 Strauss as a Director         4,264,241,323    99.03    41,598,315    0.97     756,624 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 12 
 Re-election of Julia 
 Wilson as a Director          4,262,949,452    99.00    43,029,061    1.00     617,748 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 13 
 Re-election of Nigel 
 Wilson as a Director          4,279,417,179    99.38    26,640,179    0.62     538,904 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 14 
 Re-appointment of 
 KPMG LLP as auditors          4,297,894,923    99.81     8,282,558    0.19     418,781 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 15 
 To authorise the 
 Director's to fix 
 the Auditors' remuneration    4,294,245,109    99.72    11,932,706    0.28     418,447 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 16 
 Approval of Remuneration 
 Policy                        4,109,620,878    95.71    184,122,218   4.29    12,853,165 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 17 
 Approval of Remuneration 
 Report                        4,089,839,555    95.40    197,291,047   4.60    19,465,659 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 18 
 Authority to allot 
 equity securities             4,258,196,462    98.88    48,153,560    1.12     246,240 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 19 
 Authority to allot 
 contingent convertible 
 securities                    4,271,643,788    99.27    31,592,758    0.73    3,359,715 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 20 
 Authority to make 
 political donations           4,150,980,966    96.39    155,304,772   3.61     310,524 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 21* 
 Disapplication of 
 pre-emption rights            4,234,148,482    98.39    69,207,175    1.61    3,240,605 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 22* 
 Additional authority 
 to disapply pre-emption 
 rights                        4,269,250,175    99.15    36,780,344    0.85     565,743 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 23* 
 Additional authority 
 to diappply pre-emption 
 rights in connection 
 with CCS                      4,252,907,716    98.84    50,104,912    1.16    3,583,633 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 24* 
 Authority to purchase 
 own shares                    4,225,110,260    98.17    78,594,278    1.83    2,891,723 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
Resolution 25* 
 Authority to call 
 general meetings 
 (other than an AGM) 
 on not less than 
 14 clear days' notice         4,013,628,988    93.03    300,656,475   6.97     170,705 
                              ----------------  ------  -------------  ----  -------------- 
 

Notes:

   1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion. 

2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

   3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received. 
   4          Voting was conducted by poll. 

5 The total number of votes cast was 4,314,285,463 representing 72.32% of voting capital as at 19 May 2020. At the close of business on 19 May 2020, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,965,572,140 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

   *           Denotes a Special Resolution. 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

AGM statements from the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer have been made available on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/media-centre/videos/ .

 
 Name of person making notification:    Daniella Newson 
 Contact number:                        020 3124 2107 
 Date of notification:                  21 May 2020 
 

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