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Empiric Student PropertyAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 4644M  Empiric Student Property PLC  23 May 2022

23 May 2022

Empiric Student Property plc

("Empiric" or the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

RESULT OF AGM

The Board of Empiric Student Property plc (ticker: ESP) (the "Board"), the
owner and operator of premium student accommodation serving key UK
universities, announces that all resolutions proposed at the Company's Annual
General Meeting held on 23 May 2022 were voted on and duly passed by a poll by
the Company's shareholders and the results of the poll, including proxy votes
received, are set out below.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at
the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism
and will be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

 

Resolutions 1 to 11 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 12 and 15 (inclusive) were proposed as special resolutions.

 

As at the date of the meeting, there were 603,203,070 ordinary shares with
voting rights in issue. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.

 

 RESOLUTION                                                                    FOR                            AGAINST                       WITHHELD

                                                                                                                                            VOTES*
                                                                               VOTES        % OF VOTES CAST*  VOTES       % OF VOTES CAST*
 1.     To receive the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the            405,130,400  100.00%           17,296      0.00%             7,189,295
 financial period ended 31 December 2021
 2.     To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                          376,664,246  98.10%            7,293,186   1.90%             28,379,559
 3.     To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditors of the Company                       405,439,658  99.98%            80,940      0.02%             6,816,393
 4.     To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the        412,246,153  99.99%            32,268      0.01%             58,570
 Auditors
 5.     To authorise the Directors to declare and pay all dividends as         412,285,883  100.00%           18,307      0.00%             32,801
 interim dividends
 6.     To elect Martin Ratchford as a Director of the Company                 407,799,905  98.90%            4,527,405   1.10%             9,681
 7.     To re-elect Mark Pain as a Director of the Company                     377,633,660  94.48%            22,064,340  5.52%             12,638,991
 8.     To re-elect Alice Avis as a Director of the Company                    404,485,199  98.10%            7,828,104   1.90%             23,688
 9.     To re-elect Lynne Fennah as a Director of the Company                  398,507,963  96.65%            13,819,932  3.35%             9,096
 10.  To re-elect Duncan Garrood as a Director of the Company                  406,100,563  98.49%            6,227,332   1.51%             9,096
 11.  To authorise the Directors to allot shares under (section 551 of the     402,524,697  97.63%            9,781,545   2.37%             30,749
 Companies Act 2006)
 12.  Special Resolution - subject to the passing of Resolution 11, the        412,082,841  99.95%            216,617     0.05%             37,533
 Directors shall have the power to allot equity securities (pursuant to
 sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006) for cash
 13.  Special Resolution - subject to the passing of Resolution 11, the        369,597,195  89.65%            42,679,063  10.35%            60,733
 Directors shall have the power to allot equity securities (pursuant to
 sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006) for cash for the purpose of
 financing an acquisition or other capital investment
 14.  Special Resolution - authorise the Company to make market purchases of   405,318,593  98.33%            6,878,787   1.67%             139,611
 own shares in the Company
 15.  Special resolution - that a general meeting may be called on not less    398,778,282  96.72%            13,531,576  3.28%             27,133
 than 14 clear days' notice

 

* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the votes for or against a resolution.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:

 Empiric Student Property plc                                 (via Maitland/amo below)
 Duncan Garrood (Chief Executive Officer)
 Lynne Fennah (Chief Financial & Sustainability Officer)

 Jefferies International Limited                              020 7029 8000
 Tom Yeadon

 Andrew Morris

 RBC Europe Limited (trading as RBC Capital Markets)          020 7653 4000
 Marcus Jackson

 Elliot Thomas

 Maitland/amo (Communications Adviser)                        07747 113 930 / 020 7379 5151
 James Benjamin                                               empiric-maitland@maitland.co.uk (mailto:empiric-maitland@maitland.co.uk)

 Alistair de Kare-Silver

 

The Company's LEI is 213800FPF38IBPRFPU87.

 

Further information on Empiric can be found on the Company's website at
www.empiric.co.uk (http://www.empiric.co.uk/) .

 

Notes:

Empiric Student Property plc is a leading provider and operator of modern,
predominantly direct-let, premium student accommodation serving key UK
universities. Investing in both operating and development assets, Empiric is a
fully integrated operational student property business focused on premium
studio-led accommodation managed through its Hello Student® operating
platform, that is attractive to affluent growing student segments.

 

The Company, an internally managed real estate investment trust ("REIT")
incorporated in England and Wales, listed on the premium listing segment of
the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and was admitted to
trading on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange
in June 2014.

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