Result of AGM

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Henderson European Focus Trust PLC
26 January 2023
 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800GS89AL1DK3IN50

 

26 January 2023

 

 

HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC

 

Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Thursday, 26 January 2023

 

Henderson European Focus Trust plc (the 'Company') announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included n:

 

As an ordinary resolution:

 

§ Resolution 12: to authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital;

 

As special resolutions:

 

§ Resolution 13: to authorise the directors to allot or sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption rights;

 

§ Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of up to 14.99% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital; and

 

§ Resolution 15: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 7 December 2022 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com .

 

The poll results were as follows:

 

Resolutions

Votes for

%

Votes against

%

Total votes cast

% Issued Share Capital

Votes withheld

1 Annual Report and financial statements

111,728,646

100

0

0.00

111,728,646

52.51

22,222

2 Directors' Remuneration Report

111,548,110

99.86

159,828

0.14

111,707,938

52.50

42,930

3 Approval of final dividend

111,564,058

99.84

176,300

0.16

111,740,358

52.52

10,510

4 Approval of special dividend

111,560,028

99.84

180,330

0.16

111,740,358

52.52

10,510

5 Re-election of Mrs Vicky Hastings

110,387,519

99.18

917,860

0.82

111,305,379

52.31

445,489

6 Re-election of Ms Eliza Dungworth

110,975,459

99.35

726,138

0.65

111,701,597

52.50

49,271

7 Re-election of Mr Robin Archibald

110,992,110

99.34

731,888

0.66

111,723,998

52.51

26,870

8 Re-election of Mr Stephen-Macklow Smith

110,951,721

99.32

763,377

0.68

111,715,098

52.51

35,770

9 Election of Mr Marco Bianconi

95,423,592

85.42

16,290,406

14.58

111,713,998

52.51

36,870

10 Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor

111,661,420

99.93

77,838

0.07

11,739,258

52.52

11,610

11 Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration

111,692,689

99.97

38,569

0.03

111,699,748

52.51

19,610

12 Authority to allot ordinary shares

111,708,941

99.97

30,757

0.03

111,728,358

52.52

11,170

13 Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares*

111,565,353

99.88

134,395

0.12

111,729,139

52.50

51,120

14 Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*

111,685,599

99.96

42,759

0.04

111,728,358

52.51

22,510

15 Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice*

111,097,035

99.43

632,104

0.57

111,729,139

52.51

21,729

 

* Special resolution.

 

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 the close of business on 24 January 2023 (212,768,122), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the annual 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 ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 216,389,910. On a poll the voting rights are one vote for every one share held.  The number of voting rights is therefore 212,768,122 (3,621,788 shares being held in Treasury).

 

The poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at: www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com .

 

The special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Dan Howe

Head of Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 4458

Harriet Hall

Investment Trust PR Manager

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2919

 

Johana Woodruff

For and on behalf of Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited

Henderson European Focus Trust plc

Tel: 020 7818 2220


 

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