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Genel Energy plc
16 August 2012
Genel Energy plc
("Genel Energy" or the "Company")
Notice of General Meeting
Genel Energy announces that it has today posted to shareholders a circular and notice of general meeting to be held on 5 September 2012.
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 22 May 2012 the Company's shareholders approved a special resolution allowing the Company to purchase up to 10% of its voting ordinary shares in the market, subject to certain parameters (the "Buyback Authority"). Genel Energy has previously announced its intention to seek a waiver from the UK Takeover Panel of the obligation on certain of its material shareholders that would arise upon exercise of such Buyback Authority to make a mandatory cash offer for the Company under Rule 37.1 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.
At the general meeting a resolution asking the independent shareholders to approve the waiver will be proposed.
The general meeting will be held at The Dickens Room, Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NQ.
The key dates in respect of the General Meeting are as follows:
Latest time for receipt of Forms for Proxy for use at the General Meeting | 10.00 a.m. on Monday, 3 September 2012 |
General Meeting | 10.00 a.m. on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 |
Copies of the circular, including the notice of general meeting, will be available from the Company's website at www.genelenergy.com. The shareholder circular has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
For further information, please contact:
Genel Energy plc Natalie Fortescue, Investor Relations
| + 44 20 7659 5100 |