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Henderson EurotrustAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 2662T  Henderson Eurotrust PLC  20 June 2024

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:  213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12

 

20 June 2024

 

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

 

Results of First General Meeting

 

In connection with the proposals for the merger of interests of Henderson
EuroTrust plc (the "Company") with Henderson European Focus Trust  plc
("HEFT") to form Henderson European Trust plc (the "Combined Trust") by means
of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110
of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme") and the issue of New HEFT Shares to
Shareholders who are deemed to have elected to roll over their investment into
the Combined Trust, the Board is pleased to announce that the Resolutions
which were put forward at the First General Meeting held today and voted on a
poll have been approved by Shareholders.

 

The poll results were as follows:

 

 Resolution                                                                      Votes for    %      Votes against  %     Total votes cast  % Issued Share Capital  Votes withheld
 1. To approve the reclassification of the shares in the capital of the Company  123,026,968  99.90  126,895        0.10  123,153,863       58.13                   76,201
 as shares with "A" rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes
 required to the Company's articles of association.
 2. To approve the Scheme;  further amend the Company's articles of              123,026,968  99.90  126,895        0.10  123,153,863       58.13                   76,201
 association in order to implement the Scheme; and to instruct the Liquidators
 to give effect to the Scheme.

 

These results will also be published on the Company's website:
www.hendersoneurotrust.com (http://www.hendersoneurotrust.com) .

 

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly
cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total
voting rights as at 6.30 p.m. on 18 June 2024 (211,855,410), being the time at
which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in order
to vote at the First General Meeting.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law
and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a Resolution.

 

The number of Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 211,855,410.
There are no Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this
announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 211,855,410.

 

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of First General
Meeting contained in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 20 May 2024
(the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National
Storage Mechanism which can be located at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) and on the Company's
website at www.hendersoneurotrust.com (http://www.hendersoneurotrust.com) .

 

The Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 27 June
2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 28 June 2024. Following
the reclassification of the Shares on 3 July 2024, the Reclassified Shares
will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 4 July 2024.

 

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the
Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

 

For further information please contact:

 

 Henderson EuroTrust plc

 Nicola Ralston                      Contact via Company Secretary

 Chairman                            020 7818 4082

 Janus Henderson Investors, Manager

 Dan Howe                            020 7818 4458

 Head of Investment Trusts

 Oliver Packard                      0207 818 2690

 Head of Investment Trust Sales

 Harriet Hall                        020 7818 2919

 PR Director, Investment Trusts

 Deutsche Numis, Corporate Broker

 Nathan Brown                        020 7260 1426

 Matt Goss                           020 7260 1642

 

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