Rathbone Regulatory News (RAT)

Rathbone Brothers Plc ('the Company')

2019 Report and Accounts

Notice of 2020 Annual General Meeting

The Company today announces that its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 ("Annual Report"), Notice of the 2020 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") and Form of Proxy for the 2020 AGM have been sent to shareholders. The Annual Report and AGM Notice are available to view on the Company's website at: www.rathbones.com 

In compliance with LR 9.6.1 of the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Company has today submitted electronic copies of the following documents to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

· 2019 Annual Report and Accounts

· Notice of the 2020 AGM

· Form of Proxy for the 2020 AGM

AGM:

The Company's AGM is currently scheduled to be held at 2:00pm on Thursday 7 May 2020 at 8 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7AZ.

COVID-19 update:

The board is closely monitoring the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and its immediate priorities remain the health and wellbeing of our employees, shareholders, clients and the wider community in which we operate. The Board has taken into consideration the compulsory 'Stay at Home' measures that were published by the UK Government on 23 March 2020 and it fully supports these measure to protect public health and safety. In order to comply with the Stay at Home Measures and to ensure the safety of all our stakeholders, the board's current intention is to hold a scaled-back AGM that meets our legal obligations and that deals with the formal AGM business only.

As a result, if the Stay at Home Measures continue to be in force on the date of our AGM, the board proposes that two directors who are also shareholders will attend the meeting in person.

As the Stay at Home Measures prohibit public gatherings of more than two people, shareholders will not be permitted to attend the AGM in person if such measures continue to be in force. Shareholders and guests who travel to the meeting will not be admitted. It is, therefore, important that shareholders do not attend the meeting in person while the Stay at Home Measures are in place. The board recognises that the AGM is an important event for all shareholders and is keen to ensure that they are able to exercise their right to participate and vote notwithstanding the possible restrictions on attendance in person. If shareholders wish to participate in the AGM and the Stay at Home Measures are in force, they should appoint the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy and provide their voting instructions.

In addition, the board also intends to put in place a live webcast for shareholders to listen to the AGM proceedings by accessing the following weblink:

https://www.investis-live.com/rathbone-brothers/5e871b2d1176b691000c02a0/fjfj

Given that there will not be any formal Q&A session at the meeting, shareholders can send any questions relating to the business of the AGM in advance of the meeting to CompanySecretariat@rathbones.com and we will ensure, to the extent practicable, that answers are published on our website https://www.rathbones.com/annual-general-meeting-2020

The Company will keep the Coronavirus situation under review and recommend that shareholders continue to monitor the firm's website and announcements for any updates in relation to our AGM.

Enquires:

Ali Johnson

Company Secretary

Email: CompanySecretariat@rathbones.com 

Tel: 0207 399 0326

The Appendix below, together with the information included in the Company's announcement of its preliminary results on 20 February 2020, constitutes the information required to comply with DTR 6.3.5

Appendix

Directors' Responsibility Statement

The directors are responsible for preparing the report and accounts 2019, comprising the consolidated financial statements of Rathbone Brothers Plc and its subsidiaries (the 'group') and holding company financial statements (the 'parent company') in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare group and parent company financial statements for each financial year. Under that law they are required to prepare the group financial statements in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU and applicable law and have elected to prepare the parent company financial statements on the same basis.

Under company law, the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group and parent company and of their profit or loss for that period. In preparing each of the group and parent company financial statements, the directors are required to:

- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently

- make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

- state whether they have been prepared in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU

- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group and the parent company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the parent company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the parent company and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

Under applicable law and regulations, the directors are also responsible for preparing a strategic report, directors' report, remuneration committee report and corporate governance statement that comply with that law and those regulations.

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company's website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

The directors who held office at the date of approval of the directors' report confirm that, so far as they are each aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company's auditors are unaware and each director has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information.

We confirm that to the best of our knowledge:

- the consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the parent company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole

- the strategic report and directors' report include a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the issuer and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face

- the annual report and accounts, taken as a whole, is fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the group's position and performance, business model and strategy.

By order of the board

Paul Stockton

Chief Executive

20 February 2020