REG - Hipgnosis Songs Fund - Result of AGM

Hipgnosis Songs FundAnnouncement

08/09/2020 16:55

RNS Number : 3891Y
  
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited
  
08 September 2020
  
 

8 September 2020
Legal Entity Identifier: 213800XJIPNDVKXMOC11
Information disclosed in accordance with LR 9.6.18
 
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited

("Hipgnosis" or the "Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting
and Class Meeting of C Shareholders
 
The Board of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited and its Investment Adviser, The Family (Music) Limited, announce that at the Second Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held at 10.30 am on 8 September 2020, Ordinary Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed without amendment by the requisite majority. Special Resolutions 12 to 14 were also passed without amendment by the requisite majority to: 
i.    allow the Directors of the Company to exercise all powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company up to an aggregate number of 30,792,594 ordinary shares, being 5 per cent of the ordinary shares in issue as at 7 August 2020;
ii.    allow the Company to make market purchases of up to 92,316,197 ordinary shares, representing 14.99 per cent. of the ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) as at the time immediately following the passing of the resolution; and
iii.   approve the revised articles of incorporation of the Company in the form tabled at the meeting, replacing the current articles of incorporation. 
 
The Special Resolution proposed at the Class Meeting of C Shareholders held at 10.45 am on 8 September 2020 was also passed without amendment and by the requisite majority to:
 
i.    approve the variation of rights of the C Shares as effected by the revised articles of incorporation.
 
The full results of votes cast at both the Annual General Meeting and Class Meeting of C Shareholders is available on the Company's website at https://www.hipgnosissongs.com/investorinfo 
 
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for viewing on the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/NSM and on the Company's website at    www.hipgnosissongs.com 
 
 
 
For further information, please contact:
 



The Family (Music) Limited
Merck Mercuriadis
 


Tel: +44 (0)1481 742742




N+1 Singer - Joint Corporate Broker
James Maxwell / James Moat (Corporate Finance)
Alan Geeves / James Waterlow / Sam Greatrex (Sales)
 


Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 3000




J.P. Morgan Cazenove - Joint Corporate Broker
William Simmonds / Jérémie Birnbaum (Corporate Finance)
James Bouverat (Sales)
 


Tel: +44 (0)20 7742 4000




Ocorian - Company Secretary & Administrator
Mariana Enevoldsen
 


Tel: +44 (0) 1481 742614




The Outside Organisation
Alan Edwards / Nick Caley


Tel: +44 (0)7711 081 843




 
FTI Consulting 
Neil Doyle/ Paul Harris/ Laura Ewart
 


 
Tel: +44 (0)7771 978220; +44 (0)7809 411882; +44 (0)7761 332646
 




All US music publicity enquiries
Fran Defeo


Tel: +1 917 767 5255



 
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited
(www.hipgnosissongs.com)
Hipgnosis, which was founded by Merck Mercuriadis, is a Guernsey registered investment company established to offer investors a pure-play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights. The Company has raised a total of over £860 million (gross equity capital) through its Initial Public Offering on 11 July 2018, and subsequent issues in April 2019, August 2019, October 2019 and July 2020. In September 2019, Hipgnosis transferred its entire issued share capital to the Premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA and to the London Stock Exchange's Premium segment of the Main Market.
About The Family (Music) Limited
The Company's Investment Adviser is The Family (Music) Limited, which was founded by Merck Mercuriadis, former manager of globally successful recording artists, such as Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Morrissey, Iron Maiden and Beyoncé, and hit songwriters such as Diane Warren, Justin Tranter and The-Dream, and former CEO of The Sanctuary Group plc. The Investment Adviser has assembled an Advisory Board of highly successful music industry experts which include award winning members of the artist, songwriter, publishing, legal, financial, recorded music and music management communities, all with in-depth knowledge of music publishing.   Members of The Family (Music) Limited Advisory Board include Nile Rodgers, The-Dream, Giorgio Tuinfort, Starrah, Nick Jarjour, David Stewart, Bill Leibowitz, Ian Montone, Jason Flom, Rodney Jerkins, Bjorn Lindvall and Chris Helm.

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