9 May 2019 12:40
9 May 2019
Annual General Meeting of John Laing Group plc (the "Company")
Following the annual general meeting held today at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HT, the Company announces that all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed by the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 16 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 20 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions. A poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed. The voting results are as follows:
| Resolution | Votes For | % of Votes Cast | Votes Against | % of Votes Cast | Total Votes Validly Cast | Total Votes Cast as a % of the Ordinary Shares in Issue | Votes Withheld |
1 |
Receive and consider the report & accounts for the year ended 31 December 2018
| 398,430,757 | 99.98% | 93,421 | 0.02% | 398,524,178 | 80.84 | 508,454 |
2 |
Approval of a final dividend of 7.70 pence per ordinary share
| 399,030,583 | 100.00% | 2,050 | 0.00% | 399,032,633 | 80.94 | 0 |
3 |
Approval of Annual Report on Remuneration section of the Directors' Remuneration Report
| 395,359,997 | 99.11% | 3,552,094 | 0.89% | 398,912,091 | 80.92 | 120,541 |
4 |
Approval of Directors' Remuneration Policy
| 372,132,031 | 95.31% | 18,296,521 | 4.69% | 390,428,552 | 79.19 | 8,604,080 |
5 |
Re-election of Will Samuel
| 397,528,779 | 99.62% | 1,503,365 | 0.38% | 399,032,144 | 80.94 | 488 |
6 |
Re-election of Olivier Brousse
| 395,595,410 | 99.14% | 3,436,735 | 0.86% | 399,032,145 | 80.94 | 488 |
7 |
Re-election of David Rough
| 397,250,296 | 99.61% | 1,568,716 | 0.39% | 398,819,012 | 80.90 | 213,620 |
8 |
Re-election of Jeremy Beeton
| 397,582,471 | 99.64% | 1,449,674 | 0.36% | 399,032,145 | 80.94 | 488 |
9 |
Re-election of Toby Hiscock
| 374,943,623 | 99.55% | 1,711,899 | 0.45% | 376,655,522 | 76.40 | 22,377,110 |
10 |
Re-election of Anne Wade
| 397,421,053 | 99.62% | 1,511,376 | 0.38% | 398,932,429 | 80.92 | 100,203 |
11 |
Election of Andrea Abt
| 397,308,412 | 99.57% | 1,723,433 | 0.43% | 399,031,845 | 80.94 | 788 |
12 |
Election of Luciana Germinario
| 398,109,912 | 99.77% | 921,933 | 0.23% | 399,031,845 | 80.94 | 788 |
13 |
Re-appoint of the Auditors
| 380,340,071 | 96.73% | 12,875,786 | 3.27% | 393,215,857 | 79.76 | 5,816,775 |
14 |
Authority to set the remuneration of the auditor
| 383,170,735 | 96.03% | 15,858,451 | 3.97% | 399,029,186 | 80.94 | 3,446 |
15 |
Directors' Authority to Allot Shares
| 370,693,357 | 92.90% | 28,334,082 | 7.10% | 399,027,439 | 80.94 | 5,194 |
16 |
Authority to make political donations or to incur political expenditure
| 392,733,271 | 98.43% | 6,284,048 | 1.57% | 399,017,319 | 80.94 | 15,314 |
17 |
Limited disapplication of pre-emption rights (ordinary shares)
| 372,213,742 | 93.28% | 26,817,525 | 6.72% | 399,031,267 | 80.94 | 1,366 |
18 |
Limited disapplication of pre-emption rights (financing an acquisition or other capital investment)
| 368,216,132 | 92.28% | 30,815,134 | 7.72% | 399,031,266 | 80.94 | 1,366 |
19 |
Authority to Purchase Own ordinary Shares
| 395,638,868 | 99.17% | 3,326,701 | 0.83% | 398,965,569 | 80.93 | 67,063 |
20 |
Notice Period for general meetings
| 384,624,257 | 96.39% | 14,408,376 | 3.61% | 399,032,633 | 80.94 | 0 |
Notes to AGM figures:
For all resolutions, as at 6.30 pm on 7 May 2019 (the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members), there were 493,000,636 ordinary shares in issue.
Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not votes, and therefore, have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be shortly available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM