Hend.eur.focus Regulatory News (HEFT)

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC

1 February 2017

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on 1 February 2017

Henderson European Focus Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held on 1 February 2017 all resolutions were duly passed, three of which were special resolutions authorising:

- that up to 10% of the share capital may be issued or sold out of treasury without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures; and

- the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% (equivalent to 3,088,054 ordinary shares as at today's date) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of:

i) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and

ii) the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange.

Shares repurchased will be either held in treasury or cancelled; and

- that a general meeting may be called on not fewer than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

For further information please contact:

James de Sausmarez

Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Global Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 3349

Colleen Sutcliffe

Henderson Secretarial Services Limited

Corporate Secretary

Telephone: 020 7818 5919