Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6258K

Amati VCT 2 plc

26 June 2014

Amati VCT 2 plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Company gives notice that the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 16 April 2014 were duly passed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Thursday 26 June 2014.

The full text of the resolutions passed is:

Ordinary Resolutions

1. To receive and adopt the Directors' Report and financial statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31 January 2014 together with the Independent Auditor's Report thereon.

2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.

3. To approve the Directors' Annual Report on Remuneration for the financial year ended 31 January 2014.

4. To approve a final dividend of 4p per share payable on 25 July 2014 to shareholders on the register at 4 July 2014.

5. To re-appoint BDO LLP of 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU as auditor of the Company from the conclusion of the Meeting until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015 at which financial statements are laid before the Company.

6. To authorise the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor.

7. To re-elect Julian Avery as a director of the Company.

8. To re-elect Mike Killingley as a director of the Company.

9. To re-elect Christopher Macdonald as a director of the Company.

10. To re-elect Christopher Moorsom as a director of the Company.

Special Resolutions

11. To approve the new Articles of Association of the Company to extend the life of the Company to 2020.

12. THAT in substitution for any existing authorities, the directors be and hereby are empowered pursuant to sections 570 and 573 of the 2006 Act to allot or make offers or agreements to allot equity securities (which expression shall have the meaning subscribed to it in section 560 of the 2006 Act) for cash pursuant to the authority given in accordance with section 551 of the 2006 Act by the resolution passed at the general meeting on 7 March 2013 as if section 561(1) of the 2006 Act did not apply to any such allotment, up to an aggregate nominal amount of £1,250,000. The authority hereby conferred shall (unless previously renewed or revoked) by this resolution shall expire on the earlier of the date of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015 and the date which is 15 months after the date on which this resolution is passed.

13. THAT, in substitution for existing authorities, the Company be and is hereby empowered to make one or more market purchases within the meaning of Section 701 of CA 2006, of the Ordinary Shares (either for cancellation or for the retention of treasury shares for future re-issue or transfer) provided that:

(i) the maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares authorised to be purchased is such number thereof being 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company as at the date of this resolution;

(ii) the minimum price which may be paid per Ordinary Share is 5p per share, the nominal amount thereof;

(iii) the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid per Ordinary Share is an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market quotation of such Ordinary Share taken from the London Stock Exchange daily official list for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which such Ordinary Share is to be purchased;

(iv) the authority hereby conferred shall expire on the earlier of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015 and the date which is 18 months after the date on which this Resolution is passed; and

(v) the Company may make a contract to purchase its own Ordinary Shares under the authority conferred by this resolution prior to the expiry of such authority which will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiration of such authority, and may make a purchase of such Ordinary Shares pursuant to any such contract.

Proxy votes cast were as follows:

Resolution	For	Against	Withheld
1. Directors Report and Financial Statements and Auditor's Report	988,234	0	0
2. Director's Remuneration policy	948,263	16,920	16,920
3. Director's Remuneration Report	940,757	15,331	32,146
4. Final dividend of 4p	988,234	0	0
5. Re-appoint BDO LLP as auditor	970,984	11,022	6,228
6. Auditor remuneration	976,886	8,234	3,114
7. Re-elect Julian Avery	965,855	16,203	6,176
8. Re-elect Mike Killingley	951,727	25,796	10,711
9. Re-elect Christopher Macdonald	964,717	20,403	3,114
10. Re-elect Christopher Moorsom	969,467	13,579	5,188
11. Approve amended Articles	955,931	9,926	22,377
12. Authority to dispply pre-emption rights	954,901	19,968	13,365
13. Share buyback authority	916,737	70,789	708