20 Sep 2019 13:06
20 September 2019
DWF Group plc
("the Company")
LEI: 213800O9QREOHTOGQ266
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Company was held on 20 September 2019 at 11.00am, at the Company's offices at 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3AG.
The Board is pleased to announce that all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. The proxy votes cast are reported below. The full text of each resolution is set out in the Notice of Meeting.
Resolution | Ordinary/ Special | For | Against | Total votes validly cast | Votes withheld | |||
No. of votes | % | No. of votes | % | |||||
1 | To receive the annual report and accounts for the period ended 31 April 2019 | Ordinary | 107,200,842 | 99.24 | 825,470 | 0.76 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | Ordinary | 106,935,200 | 98.99 | 1,091,112 | 1.01 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
3 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | Ordinary | 106,665,782 | 98.74 | 1,360,530 | 1.26 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
4 | To declare a final dividend | Ordinary | 108,026,313 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
5 | To elect Sir Nigel Knowles as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
6 | To elect Teresa Colaianni as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
7 | To elect Matthew Doughty as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
8 | To elect Andrew Leaitherland as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
9 | To elect Vinodka Murria, OBE, as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
10 | To elect Luke Savage as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
11 | To elect Chris Stefani as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
12 | To elect Chris Sullivan as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
13 | To elect Samantha Tymms as a director | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
14 | To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditors | Ordinary | 107,199,236 | 99.23 | 827,076 | 0.77 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
15 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration. | Ordinary | 108,020,116 | 99.99 | 6,196 | 0.01 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
16 | To authorise political donations | Ordinary | 99,195,263 | 92.53 | 8,010,169 | 7.47 | 107,205,432 | 820,880 |
17 | To authorise the allotment of shares. | Ordinary | 107,886,460 | 99.87 | 139,853 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
18 | To disapply pre-emption rights. | Special | 107,881,654 | 99.87 | 144,659 | 0.13 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
19 | To further disapply pre-emption rights for investment purposes. | Special | 107,056,183 | 99.10 | 970,129 | 0.90 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
20 | To authorise market purchases of own shares own shares. | Special | 107,057,789 | 99.10 | 968,523 | 0.90 | 108,026,312 | 0 |
21 | To permit the holding of general meetings with 14 clear days' notice. | Special | 108,012,239 | 99.99 | 14,074 | 0.01 | 108,026,313 | 0 |
A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes validly cast for or against a resolution.
Speaking after this morning's AGM, Group CEO Andrew Leaitherland, said:
"It was a pleasure to welcome investors to our first AGM this morning. I am pleased to confirm that four months into our new financial year trading continues to be in line with the Board's expectations."
Highlights in this period:
·; The acquisition of K&L Gates Jamka, the Company's first acquisition as a plc, which saw it enter the Polish market.
·; Signing an exclusive association agreement with the Spanish law firm Rousaud, Costas, Duran.
·; Appointed as a strategic legal partner to BT, to deliver a Managed Services contract of insurance and real estate legal services.
The Company's issued share capital is 300,000,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each.
Copies of the resolutions passed as special resolutions at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
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Enquiries:
DWF Group plc James Igoe Head of Communications +442072808929
Finsbury Charles O'Brien Richard Crowley +44 20 7251 3801
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