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RNS Number : 5531G  AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC  06 November 2025

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

Result of General Meeting

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

06 November 2025

 

The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to
announce that the ordinary resolution relating to the issue of New Shares in
connection with the proposed combination of the assets of the Company with the
assets of Fidelity Japan Trust Plc ("FJV") was approved by the Company's
shareholders at the general meeting of the Company held at 03.00 p.m today.

The full text for the resolution is contained in the Notice of General Meeting
incorporated in the circular dated 14 October 2025 (the "Circular"), a copy of
which is available on the Company's website at https://www.ajot
(https://www.ajot.co.uk) . (https://www.ajot.co.uk) co.uk
(https://www.ajot.co.uk) .

The implementation of the proposals remains condition upon, amongst other
things, the passing of the resolution to be proposed at the First FJV General
Meeting to be held tomorrow 07 November, and the Second FJV General Meeting to
be held on Thursday, 27 November.

For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolution were as
follows:

                                                                                 Votes For           Votes Against     Votes Withheld*
 Resolution 1                                                                    33,721,634  99.86%  46,806   0.14%    23,584

 To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities under section 551 of
 the Companies Act 2006 to shareholders of Fidelity Japan Trust Plc in
 connection with the scheme of reconstruction and winding up of Fidelity Japan
 Trust plc, provided that this authority will (unless previously revoked)
 expire on 31 December 2025.

 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the
proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

Enquiries:

 Joe Bauernfreund                                            020 7659 4800

Asset Value Investors

Investment Manager
 Nezia Morgan                                                020 4617 1038

MUFG Corporate Governance Limited

Company Secretary
 James Maxwell, Asha Chotai, James Waterlow, Anthony Debson  020 7496 3000

Singer Capital Markets Limited

Sole Sponsor and Joint Financial Adviser

 

Notes:

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in
accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.13 will shortly be available for inspection
at the National Storage Mechanism
at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was
137,198,943 with 1,360,716 held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of
Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company were 135,838,227.

Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any
website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is
(or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part
of this announcement.

 

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