Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7143H

F&C Commercial Property Trust Ld

21 May 2014

 



21 May 2014

F&C COMMERCIAL PROPERTY TRUST LIMITED

(a closed-ended collective investment scheme established as a company with limited liability under the laws of Guernsey with registered number 50402)

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 21 May 2014, all Ordinary Resolutions as set out in the AGM Notice sent to shareholders dated 11 April 2014 were duly passed.  

At the same Annual General Meeting noted above, the following Special Resolutions were also passed:

·     Special Resolution 13 was passed being that the Directors of the Company be and they are hereby generally empowered, to allot ordinary shares in the Company or grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert securities into, ordinary shares in the Company (''equity securities''), including the grant of rights to subscribe for, or to convert securities into ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if any pre-emption rights in relation to the issue of shares as set out in the listing rules made by the Financial Conduct Authority under part VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) did not apply to any such allotment of equity securities, provided that this power:

(a)  expires at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or on the expiry of 15 months from the passing of this resolution, whichever is the earlier, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired; and

(b)  shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value £758,715 being approximately 10 per cent of the nominal value of the issued share capital of the Company, as at 11 April 2014.

·    Special Resolution 14 was passed approving that the Company be authorised, in accordance with section 315 of The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008, to make market acquisitions (within the meaning of section 316(1) of The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008) of ordinary shares of 1p each (''Ordinary Shares'') (either for retention as treasury shares for future resale or transfer, or cancellation), provided that:

(a)   the maximum number of Ordinary Shares hereby authorised to be purchased shall be 14.99 per cent of the issued Ordinary Shares on the date on which this resolution is passed;

(b)   the minimum price which may be paid for an Ordinary Share shall be 1p;

(c)   the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share shall be the higher of (i) 105 per cent of the average of the middle market quotations (as derived from the Daily Official List) for the Ordinary Shares for the five business days immediately preceding the date of purchase; and (ii) the higher of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the trading venue which the purchase is carried out; and

(d)   unless previously varied, revoked or renewed, the authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2015, or on 21 November 2015, whichever is the earlier, save that the Company may, prior to such expiry, enter into a contract to purchase Ordinary Shares under such authority and may make a purchase of Ordinary Shares pursuant to any such contract.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 a copy of the special resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

A copy of the proxy voting for each resolution is available of the Company's website, www.fccpt.co.uk.

All Enquiries:

The Company Secretary

Northern Trust International Fund Administration Services (Guernsey) Limited

Trafalgar Court

Les Banques

St Peter Port

Guernsey

GY1 3QL

Tel: [phone]

 

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