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Knights Group Holdings plc
("Knights" or the "Group")
Result of AGM
The Board is pleased to announce that at Knights Annual General Meeting, held today at 11.00am, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. The result of votes cast by proxy for each resolution were as follows:
VOTESFOR | %FOR | VOTESAGAINST | %AGAINST | VOTESTOTAL | % of ISCVOTED | VOTESWITHHELD | |
RESOLUTION 1 | 72,444,794 | 100.00% | 2,835 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 2 | 72,261,341 | 99.75% | 183,468 | 0.25% | 72,444,809 | 86.77% | 132,037 |
RESOLUTION 3 | 72,261,321 | 99.74% | 186,308 | 0.26% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 4 | 72,447,175 | 100.00% | 454 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 5 | 72,447,190 | 100.00% | 439 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 6 | 72,441,515 | 99.99% | 6,114 | 0.01% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 7 | 72,444,335 | 100.00% | 3,294 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 8 | 72,444,335 | 100.00% | 3,294 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 9 | 72,447,190 | 100.00% | 439 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 10 | 72,447,629 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
RESOLUTION 11 | 72,439,169 | 99.99% | 5,640 | 0.01% | 72,444,809 | 86.77% | 132,037 |
RESOLUTION 12 | 72,435,859 | 99.99% | 8,899 | 0.01% | 72,444,758 | 86.77% | 132,088 |
RESOLUTION 13 | 72,438,679 | 99.99% | 6,079 | 0.01% | 72,444,758 | 86.77% | 132,088 |
RESOLUTION 14 | 71,321,196 | 99.99% | 8,919 | 0.01% | 71,330,115 | 85.43% | 1,246,731 |
RESOLUTION 15 | 72,444,809 | 100.00% | 2,820 | 0.00% | 72,447,629 | 86.77% | 129,217 |
For the purposes of resolution 13 the Company confirmed at its AGM that it intends to comply with the guidelines set out within the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group. Accordingly, the Company will consult with shareholders if it were to seek to issue non-pre-emptively equity securities that represent more than 7.5% of its issued ordinary share capital within a three year rolling period subject to the exclusions set out within those guidelines.
Knights | |
David Beech, CEO | Via MHP Communications |
Numis (Nomad and Broker) | |
Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank | 020 7260 1000 |
MHP Communications (Media enquiries) | |
Andrew Jaques, Katie Hunt, Rachel Mann | 020 3128 810007585 301464knights@mhpc.com |
Notes to Editors
Knights is a fast-growing, legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK's top 100 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. It is focussed on key UK markets outside London and currently operates from 16 offices located in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Chester, Crawley, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Maidstone, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Stoke, Weybridge, Wilmslow and York.