30 Nov 2020 15:17
HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED
HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800J6LLOCA3CUDF69
30 November 2020
HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC (the ″Company″ or ″HAST″)
Result of Meeting
The Company announces that, at the general meeting held on 30 November 2020, the special resolution set out in the notice of general meeting dated 12 November 2020 (summarised below) was duly passed on a poll.
Resolution - THAT:
(a) the Company be and is hereby wound up voluntarily pursuant to section 84(1)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986 and that Gareth Rutt Morris and Andrew Martin Sheridan of FRP Advisory Trading Limited of Kings Orchard, 1 Queen Street, Bristol BS2 0HQ, having consented to act, be and are hereby appointed as joint liquidators (the "Liquidators") with the power to act jointly and severally for the purposes of such winding-up including realising and distributing the Company's assets and any power conferred on them by law or by this resolution and any act required or authorised under any enactment to be done by them may be exercised by them jointly or by each of them alone;
(b) the remuneration of the Liquidators be determined by reference to the time properly given by them and their staff in attending to matters prior to and during the winding-up of the Company and they be and are hereby authorised to draw such remuneration monthly or at such longer intervals as they may determine and to pay any expenses properly incurred by them;
(c) the Liquidators be and are hereby authorised under the provisions of section 165(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 to exercise the powers set out in the Insolvency Act 1986 including, in particular, under Part 1 of Schedule 4 thereof; and
(d) the Company's books and records be held by the company secretary to the order of the Liquidators until the expiry of twelve months after the date of dissolution of the Company, when they may be disposed of, save for financial and trading records which shall be kept for a minimum of six years following the vacation of the Liquidators from office.
.The votes cast were as follows:
Votes for (including discretionary) | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast | Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights | Votes withheld | |
Resolution | 23,504,400 | 99.89 | 23,476 | 0.11 | 23,528,146 | 60.82 | 4,557 |
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 2.30 p.m. on 25 November 2020 (38,678,638), 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 38,678,638. There are no shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 38,678,638.
A copy of the poll results will be available on the Company's website shortly at: www.hendersonalternativestrategies.com
A copy of the resolution will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
Gareth Morris FRP Advisory LLP Telephone: 0117 203 3672
| James de Sausmarez Director and Head of Investment Trusts Telephone: 020 7818 3349
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Laura Thomas Investor Relations and PR Manager Henderson Investment Funds Limited Telephone: 020 7818 26 | Mark Bloomfield Corporate Broker: Stifel Nicolaus Europe Ltd Telephone: 020 7710 7600
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