Last checked at 24 Sep 2019 15:57
24 September 2019
Knights Group Holdings plc
("Knights", the "Company" or the "Group")
Result of AGM
The Board of Knights plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company, held today at 9.30am, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. The results of votes cast by proxy for each resolution were as follows:
Resolution | Description | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld |
Ordinary Resolutions | ||||
RES:001 | REPORT AND THE ACCOUNTS | 59,335,836 | 926 | 1,821 |
RES:002 | REMUNERATION REPORT | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:003 | FINAL DIVIDEND OF 1.27P | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:004 | RE-ELECT B. JOHAL | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:005 | RE-ELECT D. BEECH | 57,138,680 | 2,199,903 | 0 |
RES:006 | RE-ELECT S. DOLTON | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:007 | RE-ELECT K. LEWIS | 57,138,680 | 2,199,903 | 0 |
RES:008 | RE-ELECT R. KING | 57,138,680 | 2,199,903 | 0 |
RES:009 | RE-ELECT J. PATEMAN | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:010 | RE-APPOINT AUDITORS | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:011 | AUDIT COMMITTEE | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:012 | ALLOT RELEVANT SECURITIES | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
Special Resolutions | ||||
RES:013 | PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS | 59,335,836 | 2,747 | 0 |
RES:014 | ACQUISITION/SPECIFIED CI | 58,942,560 | 396,023 | 0 |
RES:015 | MARKET PURCHASES | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
RES:016 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | 59,337,657 | 926 | 0 |
Ends
Enquiries
Knights | |
David Beech, CEO | via MHP Communications |
Numis (Nominated Adviser and Broker) | |
Stuart Skinner, Kevin Cruickshank, Michael Burke | +44 20 7260 1000 |
MHP Communications (Financial Comm) | |
Katie Hunt, Andrew Jaques, Rachel Mann | +44 20 3128 8794 knights@mhpc.com |
Notes to Editors
Knights is a fast-growing, legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK 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 of the 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. The Group's main focus is on the UK's secondary markets, offering 'big city' quality expertise from a regional cost base. Currently, Knights operates from eight offices located in Cheltenham, Chester, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Oxford, Stoke and Wilmslow.