Result of General Meeting

THE BIOTECH GROWTH TRUST PLC

(the "Company")

 

Result of the General Meeting

 

The Board is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting of the Company held on Thursday, 18 July 2024 the resolution detailed below was duly passed by shareholders on a poll. 

 

Resolution

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Total Votes Cast

Votes

Withheld*

 

1. THAT the Related Party Transaction relating to the Benchmark Index Change on the terms summarised in paragraph 2 of Part I (Letter from the Chair) be and is hereby approved for the purposes of Chapter 11 of the Listing Rules and the directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to do all such acts and things and execute all such documents as they may in their absolute discretion consider necessary and/or desirable in order to implement and complete the Benchmark Index Change.

 

9,803,831

99.64

35,884

0.36

9,839,715

15,013

 

* Please note that a `vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes `For' and `Against' a resolution.

 

Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.

 

At the date of the AGM, the total number of Ordinary shares of 25p each in issue and the total number of voting rights was 32,887,198.

 

The proxy voting figures will shortly also be available on the Company's website at www.biotechgt.com

   

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the resolution passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

18 July 2024

 

For further information please contact:

 

Katherine Manson

Frostrow Capital LLP - Company Secretary

020 3709 8734

 




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