8 Jan 2024 14:33
08 January 2024
Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc
Legal Entity Identifier: 213800RV2228EO1JEN02
Results of First General Meeting
In connection with the proposals for a combination of the assets of Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc (the "Company") with Henderson High Income Trust plc by means of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme"), the Board is pleased to announce that the Resolutions which were put forward at the First General Meeting held today and voted on a poll have been approved by Shareholders.
Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the resolutions are set out below and will also be published on the Company's website: www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com.
Resolution | Votes for (incl. discretionary) | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast | Votes cast (excl. votes withheld)1 | Votes withheld |
1. To approve the reclassification of the shares in the capital of the Company as shares with "A" rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes required to the Company's articles of association. | 46,226,635 | 97.76 | 1,057,891 | 2.24 | 47,284,526 | 25.97 | 434,168 |
2. To approve the Scheme; further amend the Company's articles of association in order to implement the Scheme; and to instruct the Liquidators to give effect to the Scheme. | 46,303,036 | 97.77 | 1,057,891 | 2.23 | 47,360,927 | 26.01 | 357,767 |
1 As a percentage of total voting rights
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 6.30 p.m. on 4 January 2024 (182,072,717), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in order to vote at the First 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 Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 187,434,303. There are 5,361,586 Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 182,072,717.
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of First General Meeting contained in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 12 December 2023 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com.
The Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 8 January 2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 9 January 2024. Following the reclassification of the Shares on 15 January 2024, the Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 16 January 2024.
Final interim dividend
On 8 December 2023 the Board announced that, subject to the passing of the Resolutions at the First General Meeting, a final interim dividend of 0.55 pence per Share in respect of the year ending 30 April 2024 would be paid to Shareholders (on the register as at close of business on 5 January 2024) on 15 January 2024. This condition has been satisfied.
Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the Circular unless the context otherwise requires.
For further information please contact: | |
Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc | Contact via Janus Henderson |
Angus Macpherson | |
Janus Henderson Investors UK Limited | +44 (0) 207 818 1818 |
Dan Howe (Head of Investment Trusts) Oliver Packard (Sales) | |
Harriet Hall (PR) | |
J.P. Morgan Cazenove | +44 (0) 203 493 8000 |
William Simmonds Rupert Budge |