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23 May 2019 16:36
Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 23 MAY 2019
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JP 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 2018 | 4,132,052,557 | 100.00 | 22,069 | 0.00 | 52,977,631 |
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 11.82p per ordinary share | 4,179,683,025 | 99.88 | 5,170,882 | 0.12 | 198,350 |
Resolution 3 Election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director | 4,182,465,948 | 99.96 | 1,768,846 | 0.04 | 817,463 |
Resolution 4 Election of George Lewis as a Director | 4,177,165,466 | 99.83 | 7,023,022 | 0.17 | 863,769 |
Resolution 5 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director | 4,113,444,896 | 98.31 | 70,715,466 | 1.69 | 891,895 |
Resolution 6 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director | 4,129,262,973 | 98.69 | 54,957,299 | 1.31 | 831,985 |
Resolution 7 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director | 4,106,311,476 | 98.61 | 57,918,684 | 1.39 | 20,822,097 |
Resolution 8 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director | 4,104,385,109 | 98.09 | 79,716,908 | 1.91 | 950,240 |
Resolution 9 Re-election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director | 4,155,930,579 | 99.32 | 28,266,998 | 0.68 | 854,680 |
Resolution 10 Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director | 4,159,520,432 | 99.41 | 24,674,380 | 0.59 | 857,445 |
Resolution 11 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director | 4,158,962,992 | 99.40 | 25,258,258 | 0.60 | 831,007 |
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director | 4,161,710,089 | 99.46 | 22,484,376 | 0.54 | 857,792 |
Resolution 13 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director | 4,157,320,652 | 99.36 | 26,853,584 | 0.64 | 878,021 |
Resolution 14 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors | 4,176,209,685
| 99.80 | 8,542,310 | 0.20 | 297,193 |
Resolution 15 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration | 4,178,001,108 | 99.84 | 6,719,909 | 0.16 | 331,240 |
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report | 4,066,344,533 | 97.83 | 90,018,275 | 2.17 | 28,689,449 |
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities | 4,170,855,442 | 99.67 | 13,818,488 | 0.33 | 360,258 |
Resolution 18 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities | 4,154,578,003 | 99.28 | 30,158,288 | 0.72 | 300,966 |
Resolution 19 Authority to make political donations | 4,007,214,842 | 96.21 | 157,933,969 | 3.79 | 19,888,446 |
Resolution 20 Renewal of the Legal & General Group Savings-Related Option Scheme | 4,149,010,568 | 99.15 | 35,551,404 | 0.85 | 490,285 |
Resolution 21 Renewal of the Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan | 4,172,602,882 | 99.71 | 12,049,619 | 0.29 | 397,604 |
Resolution 22* Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 4,178,460,494 | 99.86 | 6,053,255 | 0.14 | 521,356 |
Resolution 23* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 4,072,496,364 | 97.32 | 112,014,470 | 2.68 | 513,646 |
Resolution 24* Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS | 4,133,011,107 | 98.77 | 51,498,330 | 1.23 | 527,820 |
Resolution 25* Authority to purchase own shares | 4,152,366,083 | 99.27 | 30,494,137 | 0.73 | 2,183,906 |
Resolution 26* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 3,938,003,149 | 94.55 | 227,034,378 | 5.45 | 20,014,730 |
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 proxy votes cast was 4,184,853,907 representing 70.20% of voting capital as at 21 May 2019. At the close of business on 21 May 2019, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,960,948,551 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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
Name of person making notification: | Daniella Newson |
Contact number: | 020 3124 2107 |
Date of notification: | 23 May 2019 |
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