Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9085O
Burford Capital
22 May 2018
 


This announcement contains inside information.

 

22 May 2018

 

BURFORD CAPITAL LIMITED

 

RESULT OF AGM

 

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford Capital" or "Burford" or "the Company"), the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law, is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting today were approved by shareholders.

 

Among other matters, shareholders approved the dividend payment of 7.95¢ per share.  That dividend will be payable on 22 June 2018 to shareholders on the register as at the close of business on Friday 1 June 2018.

 

The votes received are detailed below:

 

Ordinary Resolutions

Total votes for

Total votes against

Total votes withheld

1.     To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2017 and the directors' and auditors' reports thereon

148,464,184

3,794,958

146,494

2.     To declare a final dividend of 7.95¢ (United States cents) per ordinary share

152,405,636

0

0

3.     To re-appoint Hugh Steven Wilson as a director

150,200,911

2,204,510

215

4.     To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditors

151,092,653

1,312,983

0

5.     To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration

152,012,126

391,626

1,884

6.     To authorise the directors to allot up to 68,718,533 shares and up to 137,437,066 by way of a rights issue

149,255,466

2,920,500

229,670

7.     To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares up to a specified amount

152,064,477

227,160

113,999

Special Resolution




8.     To authorise the directors to allot shares for cash without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders (subject to the limitation set out in the resolution)

151,989,497

411,729

4,410

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Burford Capital Limited


Elizabeth O'Connell, CFA, Chief Financial Officer

+1 212 235 6825



Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 3037 2000

Jonny Allison                                                    


Nicholas Harland




Liberum Capital Limited -  Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 3100 2222

Richard Crawley                                                              


Jamie Richards




Numis Securities Limited - Joint Broker

+44 (0)20 7260 1000

Charlie Farquhar                                                             


Jonathan Abbot




Neustria Partners - Financial Communications for Burford Capital

+44 (0)20 3021 2580

Robert Bailhache [email]                                             


Charles Gorman [email]


Nick Henderson [email]




 

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with law firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago and Singapore.

 

For more information about Burford: www.burfordcapital.com

 

 

 

 

 


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