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11 Apr 2022 17:30
11 April 2022
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc
(the "Company")
Results of General Meeting
The Board of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc, announces that at the Company's General Meeting held today, the resolutions proposed at the General Meeting were voted on and passed on a poll by the Company's shareholders and the results of the poll, including the proxy votes received, are set out below.
Resolutions 1 and 2 were proposed as ordinary resolutions and Resolution 3 was proposed as a special resolution. All resolutions were duly passed.
Resolution | Votes For* | % | Votes Against | % | Total votes validly cast | Total votes cast as % of issued share capital | Vote Withheld ** | |
1 | To authorise the Directors to allot up to 750 million Ordinary Shares and/or C Shares under section 551 Companies Act 2006 | 138,560,310 | 96.65 | 4,904,080 | 3.42 | 143,414,390 | 41.58 | 145,630 |
2 | To approve the proposed changes to the Company's investment policy | 137,576,788 | 99.91 | 225,365 | 0.16 | 137,752,153 | 39.94 | 5,807,867 |
3 | To disapply statutory pre-emption rights otherwise applicable to the allotment or sale of up to 750 million Ordinary Shares and/or C Shares | 138,152,918 | 96.41 | 5,241,815 | 3.66 | 143,344,733 | 41.56 | 215,287 |
* Includes discretionary votes
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
LEI: 213800GPUNVGG81G4O21
For further information:
Gore Street Capital Limited | |
Alex O'Cinneide / Paula Travesso / Maria Vaggione | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3826 0290 |
Shore Capital (Joint Corporate Broker) | |
Anita Ghanekar / Rose Ramsden / Iain Sexton (Corporate Advisory) Fiona Conroy (Corporate Broking) | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7 408 4090 |
J. P. Morgan Cazenove (Joint Corporate Broker) | |
William Simmonds / Jérémie Birnbaum (Corporate Finance) | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7742 4000 |
Buchanan (Media enquiries)
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Charles Ryland / Henry Wilson / George Beale | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000 | |
Email: Gorestreet@buchanan.uk.com | ||
Notes:
Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at 7 April 2022, the record date for voting at the General Meeting, the share capital of the Company consisted of 345,035,842 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Gore Street is London's first listed energy storage fund and seeks to provide shareholders with a significant opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of utility scale energy storage projects. In addition to seeking growth through exploiting its considerable pipeline, the Company aims to deliver consistent and robust dividend yield as income distributions to its shareholders.
Further information is available at www.gorestreetcap.com/energy-storage-fund/