North Atlantic Smlr - Result of AGM
21/06/2022 16:35
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20220621:nRSU6904Pa&default-theme=true RNS Number : 6904P North Atlantic Smlr Co Inv Tst PLC 21 June 2022 North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC (the "Company") Result of Annual General Meeting The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company held today (21 June 2022), all of the resolutions, as set out in full in the notice of the Meeting dated 20 May 2022 (the "Notice"), including the waiver of the requirements of Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers in connection with the Company's ability to buy back its own shares (Resolution 14), as amended, were duly passed as below. Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed by way of show of hands and Resolutions 12 to 14 were passed by way of polls using the proxy votes. Proxy votes received Resolution For Against Votes Withheld 1 7,361,486 104 2,054 2 7,323,254 37,601 2,789 3 6,867,244 493,426 2,974 4 7,010,928 349,272 3,444 5 7,296,739 63,311 3,594 6 7,296,390 63,633 3,621 7 6,553,062 265,603 544,979 8 7,356,982 1,966 4,696 9 7,357,896 804 4,944 10 7,319,830 40,013 3,801 11 7,284,727 58,861 20,056 12 7,200,519 160,383 2,742 13 7,337,692 21,341 4,611 14* 2,502,293 1,132,052 3,729,299 * Resolution 14 was put to the Meeting as a resolution of the independent shareholders of the Company. As a result, 9,455,336 of the ordinary shares in issue were eligible to vote on this resolution, these shares not being held by the Concert Party (as defined in the Notice). The waiver of Rule 9 granted by Resolution 14 permits the Concert Party's interest in the Company's shares to increase from 30.78% to a maximum of 34.21% (in each case representing 4,205,664 ordinary shares) as a result of the share buyback authorised by Resolution 12 without requiring the Concert Party to make a mandatory offer for the other shareholders' shares. The results of the poll vote on this Resolution 14 were 2,502,293 votes for, 1,132,052 against, 3,729,299 abstentions, therefore with 68.85% in favour of the resolution. Contact: Jane Muir For Kin Company Secretarial Limited Company Secretary 020 8819 6486 This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com) or visit www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/) . RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy) . END RAGBKDBNPBKDQAB