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22 September 2023
Liontrust Asset Management Plc
("Liontrust" or the "Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Liontrust is pleased to announce that at its AGM held yesterday, Thursday 21 September 2023, the resolutions proposed to the meeting on a poll were duly passed by the requisite majority.
Resolutions 1 to 13 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.
Details of the votes cast on each resolution are set out below:
Resolutions | Votes For | % of votes cast | Votes Against | % of votes cast | Votes Total | % of ISC voted** | Votes Withheld* |
1 - Report & Accounts | 33,644,694 | 99.81% | 63,400 | 0.19% | 33,708,094 | 51.91% | 935,675 |
2 - Remuneration Report | 26,969,791 | 80.20% | 6,657,628 | 19.80% | 33,627,419 | 51.79% | 1,016,350 |
3 - Alastair Barbour | 29,534,156 | 85.27% | 5,103,056 | 14.73% | 34,637,212 | 53.34% | 6,557 |
4 - John Ions | 34,431,274 | 99.41% | 203,048 | 0.59% | 34,634,322 | 53.34% | 9,447 |
5 - Vinay Abrol | 34,405,018 | 99.34% | 229,304 | 0.66% | 34,634,322 | 53.34% | 9,447 |
6 - Mandy Donald | 32,424,478 | 93.64% | 2,200,844 | 6.36% | 34,625,322 | 53.32% | 18,447 |
7 - Rebecca Shelley | 33,663,364 | 97.22% | 961,211 | 2.78% | 34,624,575 | 53.32% | 18,285 |
8 - George Yeandle | 28,215,081 | 81.49% | 6,410,523 | 18.51% | 34,625,604 | 53.32% | 18,165 |
9 - KPMG LLP | 33,669,193 | 97.20% | 970,191 | 2.80% | 34,639,384 | 53.34% | 3,605 |
10 - Auditors remuneration | 34,596,720 | 99.90% | 33,626 | 0.10% | 34,630,346 | 53.33% | 13,423 |
11 - Allot Shares | 30,966,095 | 89.44% | 3,657,906 | 10.56% | 34,624,001 | 53.32% | 19,768 |
12 - Political Expenditure | 28,832,748 | 83.27% | 5,794,512 | 16.73% | 34,627,260 | 53.33% | 16,509 |
13 - SAYE Option Plan | 34,564,879 | 99.83% | 57,996 | 0.17% | 34,622,875 | 53.32% | 20,894 |
14 - Pre-emption rights | 28,688,320 | 82.87% | 5,931,341 | 17.13% | 34,619,661 | 53.31% | 17,876 |
15 - Further pre-emption rights | 28,675,665 | 82.78% | 5,963,624 | 17.22% | 34,639,289 | 53.34% | 4,480 |
16 - Purchase own shares | 33,686,435 | 97.27% | 944,730 | 2.73% | 34,631,165 | 53.33% | 12,604 |
17 - Short Notice GMs | 31,130,224 | 89.97% | 3,470,346 | 10.03% | 34,600,570 | 53.28% | 36,967 |
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law.
** Based on a total issued share capital ("ISC") of 64,935,384 ordinary shares as at 21 September 2023.
The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM are contained in the Notice of Meeting published and sent to shareholders on 14 August 2023. A copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
For further information please contact:
Teneo (Tel: 020 7353 4200, Email: liontrust@teneo.com)
Tom Murray
Liontrust Asset Management Plc (Tel: 020 7412 1700, Website: liontrust.co.uk)
John Ions: Chief Executive
Vinay Abrol: Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Simon Hildrey: Chief Marketing Officer
David Boyle: Head of Corporate Development
Singer Capital Markets (Tel: 020 7496 3000)
Corporate Broking: Tom Salvesen
Corporate Finance: Justin McKeegan
Panmure Gordon (Tel: 020 7886 2500)
Corporate Broking: David Watkins
Corporate Advisory: Atholl Tweedie