REG-Capita PLC: Shareholder approval for proposed sale of Pay360

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01/11/2022 13:30

Capita plc

(“Capita” or the “Company”)

Capita gains shareholder approval for the proposed sale of its Pay360 business

Capita is pleased to announce that the resolution proposed at the general
meeting of the Company held at 10:30 a.m. on 1 November 2022 (the “General
Meeting”), seeking approval for the proposed sale of Pay360 Limited to
Access PaySuite Ltd, a division of The Access Group (the “Disposal”), was
duly passed by shareholders. Full details of the poll result are set out
below.

 Resolution                     Votes For      %       Votes Against  %     Votes Total    % of ISC Votes  Votes Withheld  
 THAT the Disposal be approved  1,197,902,319  99.99%  102,973        0.01  1,198,005,292  71.12           235,998         

 

The full text of the resolution is set out in the notice of General Meeting
forming part of the circular to shareholders dated 11 October 2022.
 

Please note a ‘vote withheld’ is not a vote under English law and is
therefore not included in the calculation of votes ‘for’ and ‘against’
the resolution.
 

The total number of issued ordinary shares in the Company as at 6.00 p.m. on
28 October 2022, being the voting record time, was 1,684,273,523 ordinary
shares.  The Company currently holds no ordinary shares in Treasury. 
Therefore, the total number of votes exercisable as at the voting record time
was 1,684,273,523.

A copy of the resolution passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to
the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection
at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Barclays Bank PLC, acting through its Investment Bank (“Barclays”) is
acting as sole financial adviser and sponsor to Capita on the Disposal.

For more information please contact:

Capita investor enquiries

Stuart Morgan

Director of Investor Relations

Tel: 07989 665484

Email: IRteam@capita.co.uk

Capita media enquiries

Capita external communications

Tel: 0207 654 2399

Email: media@capita.co.uk

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Barclays (Financial Adviser and Sponsor to Capita)

Omar Faruqui

Osman Akkaya

Tel: 0207 623 2323

About Capita

Capita is a consulting, transformation and digital services business. Every
day our 52,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative
solutions to transform and simplify the connections between government and
citizens, businesses and customers. We partner with our clients and provide
the insight and cutting-edge technologies that give time back, allowing them
to focus on what they do best and making people’s lives easier and simpler.
We operate across three divisions – Capita Public Service, Capita Experience
and Capita Portfolio – in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa. Capita is
quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information can be found
at: www.capita.com.

Important Notices

This announcement is an announcement and not a circular or prospectus or
equivalent document and prospective investors should not make any investment
decision on the basis of its contents. Nothing in this announcement
constitutes an offer of securities for sale in any jurisdiction. Shareholders
are advised to carefully read the Circular. Any response to the Disposal
should be made only on the basis of the information in the Circular.

If you are in any doubt as to what action you should take in relation to this
announcement or the Circular, you are recommended to seek your own personal
financial advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor,
accountant or other independent financial adviser authorised under the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or from another appropriately
authorised independent financial adviser.

This announcement is not for release, publication or distribution, in whole or
in part, in, into or from any jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a
violation of the relevant laws of that jurisdiction. Persons into whose
possession this announcement comes should inform themselves about, and
observe, such restrictions. Any failure to comply with the restrictions may
constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

Barclays, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority
(“PRA”) and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct
Authority and the PRA, is acting exclusively for Capita and no one else in
connection with the Disposal and will not be responsible to anyone other than
Capita for providing the protections afforded to clients of Barclays nor for
providing advice in relation to the Disposal or any other matter referred to
in this announcement.
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