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Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 20 MAY 2021
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at One Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | For 1 | Against | Votes Withheld 2 | ||
No. of shares1 | % | No. of shares | % | ||
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 | 3,968,578,081 | 100.00 | 72,943 | 0.00 | 3,131,851 |
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 12.64p per ordinary share | 3,939,505,595 | 99.19 | 32,068,426 | 0.81 | 208,854 |
Resolution 3 Election of Ric Lewis as a Director | 3,959,857,095 | 99.71 | 11,335,910 | 0.29 | 589,870 |
Resolution 4 Election of Nilufer von Bismarck as a Director | 3,970,758,054 | 99.99 | 430,158 | 0.01 | 594,663 |
Resolution 5 Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director | 3,918,173,097 | 98.67 | 52,984,567 | 1.33 | 625,211 |
Resolution 6 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director | 3,893,207,669 | 98.04 | 77,856,118 | 1.96 | 719,088 |
Resolution 7 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director | 3,957,630,328 | 99.66 | 13,582,109 | 0.34 | 570,438 |
Resolution 8 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director | 3,736,401,100 | 96.55 | 133,367,545 | 3.45 | 102,014,228 |
Resolution 9 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director | 3,878,766,480 | 97.67 | 92,457,659 | 2.33 | 558,736 |
Resolution 10 Re-election of George Lewis as a Director | 3,920,910,647 | 98.73 | 50,239,645 | 1.27 | 632,583 |
Resolution 11 Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director | 3,921,338,381 | 98.75 | 49,813,652 | 1.25 | 630,842 |
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director | 3,970,836,069 | 99.99 | 411,078 | 0.01 | 535,728 |
Resolution 13 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors | 3,919,121,589 | 98.68 | 52,249,703 | 1.32 | 411,583 |
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration | 3,940,021,713 | 99.21 | 31,418,417 | 0.79 | 342,745 |
Resolution 15 Approval of Remuneration Report | 3,858,805,163 | 97.17 | 112,466,802 | 2.83 | 510,910 |
Resolution 16 Authority to allot equity securities | 3,925,331,936 | 98.84 | 46,106,649 | 1.16 | 344,290 |
Resolution 17 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities | 3,937,640,023 | 99.15 | 33,710,861 | 0.85 | 431,990 |
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations | 3,878,069,376 | 97.66 | 93,095,462 | 2.34 | 616,036 |
Resolution 19* Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 3,958,288,284 | 99.67 | 12,985,584 | 0.33 | 507,007 |
Resolution 20* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 3,873,208,287 | 97.53 | 98,104,325 | 2.47 | 468,262 |
Resolution 21* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS | 3,926,590,014 | 98.88 | 44,673,342 | 1.12 | 517,518 |
Resolution 22* Authority to purchase own shares | 3,896,914,712 | 98.47 | 60,425,387 | 1.53 | 14,442,775 |
Resolution 23* To adopt new Articles of Association | 3,970,904,564 | 99.99 | 247,327 | 0.01 | 630,984 |
Resolution 24* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 3,654,776,173 | 92.03 | 316,696,434 | 7.97 | 310,267 |
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of votes cast was 3,971,574,021 representing 66.55% of voting capital as at 18 May 2021. At the close of business on 18 May 2021, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,967,625,491 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
* Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Name of person making notification: Leanne Cornish
Contact Number: 020 3124 2107
Date of notification: 20 May 2021