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22 Sep 2008 14:37



Date: 22 September 2008

Standard Life European Private Equity Trust plc (the "Company")

Result of EGM and results of the Class Meetings of Ordinary and Founder Shareholders

The Company announces that both the special resolution and ordinary resolution proposed at today's extraordinary general meeting of the Company were approved on a show of hands, as were the special resolutions proposed at the Class Meeting of the Ordinary Shareholders and at the Class Meeting of the Founder Shareholders respectively. Accordingly, the adoption by the Company of new articles of association, which were produced to the meeting and initialled by the Chairman of the meeting for the purpose of identification, will become effective on 1 October 2008 (or any later date on which section 175 of the Companies Act 2006 comes into force) and the board of directors of the Company are now authorised to offer the holders of ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each in the capital of the Company the right to elect to receive new ordinary shares credited as fully paid instead of cash in respect of all or part of any dividend declared or paid on ordinary shares until the earlier of (a) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2009 and (b) 21 September 2009.

Proxy votes received were as follows:

in relation to the special resolution proposed at the EGM, proxies in respect of 113,899,426 votes were received, of which 113,721,983 votes were in favour, nil votes were against and 177,443 were abstentions;

in relation to the ordinary resolution proposed at the EGM, proxies in respect of 113,899,426 votes were received, of which 113,726,314 votes were in favour, 3,112 votes were against and 170,000 were abstentions;

in relation to the special resolution proposed at the Class Meeting of the Ordinary Shareholders, proxies in respect of 108,845,949 votes were received, of which 108,664,160 votes were in favour, 2,300 votes were against and 179,499 were abstentions; and

in relation to the special resolution proposed at the Class Meeting of the Founder Shareholders, proxies in respect of 34,227,433 votes were received, of which 34,227,433 votes were in favour, nil votes were against and nil were abstentions.

Further information

A print of each of the resolutions passed at the EGM and at the respective Class Meetings has been forwarded to, and will shortly be available for inspection at, the FSA's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority 25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon E14 5HS

Enquiries:

Capitalised words and expressions used in this announcement have the same meanings as in the circular issued by the Company on 22 August 2008, a copy of which is available in full at the FSA's Document Viewing Facility, details of which are given above.