Rathbone Brothers Plc : Result of AGM

RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')
RESULTS OF THE 2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 1 Curzon Street, London, W1J 5FB on Wednesday 18 May 2016, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 8 April 2016) were passed on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 15 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were special resolutions.

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance. A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The results of the poll were as follows:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes cast	Votes cast as a % of the voting capital	Withheld
1	To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2015	37,700,179	99.96	14,137	0.04	37,714,316	78.24	191,654
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2015	36,323,769	96.36	1,371,806	3.64	37,695,575	78.20	210,393
3	To declare a final dividend of 34p per share for the year ended 31 December 2015	37,722,645	100.00	0	0.00	37,722,645	78.26	183,325
4	To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director	37,475,138	99.97	11,080	0.03	37,486,218	77.77	419,752
5	To re-elect Philip Howell as a director	37,712,884	99.91	33,056	0.09	37,745,940	78.31	161,736
6	To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director	37,716,826	99.99	5,063	0.01	37,721,889	78.26	184,081
7	To re-elect Paul Chavasse as a director	37,702,173	99.95	20,472	0.05	37,722,645	78.26	183,325
8	To re-elect David Harrel as a director	37,590,204	99.66	127,648	0.34	37,717,852	78.25	188,118
9	To re-elect James Dean as a director	37,715,541	99.99	2,311	0.01	37,717,852	78.25	188,118
10	To re-elect Sarah Gentleman as a director	37,712,016	99.98	5,836	0.02	37,717,852	78.25	188,118
11	To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director	37,717,918	100.00	960	0.00	37,718,878	78.25	187,092
12	To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company	37,458,397	99.97	12,592	0.03	37,470,989	77.74	434,979
13	To authorise the audit committee of the board of directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors	37,714,445	99.95	18,919	0.05	37,733,364	78.28	172,606
14	To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	37,343,942	99.58	158,006	0.42	37,501,948	77.80	404,022
15	To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares	36,518,136	96.99	1,135,215	3.01	37,653,351	78.12	252,619
16	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights	37,418,849	99.95	19,871	0.05	37,438,720	77.67	467,250
17	To further authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions and specified capital investments	35,865,320	95.80	1,572,765	4.20	37,438,085	77.67	467,884
18	To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	37,335,457	99.30	262,153	0.70	37,597,610	78.00	308,359
19	To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) or not less than 14 days' notice	37,046,583	98.53	550,862	1.47	37,597,445	78.00	308,525

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes cast are expressed as a percentage of 48,201,707 ordinary shares.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Shelly Chadda
Investor Relations Manager

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