AGM Statement of Result

RNS Number : 3042F

Burford Capital

16 May 2017

 

16 May 2017

BURFORD CAPITAL LIMITED

RESULT OF AGM

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford Capital" or "Burford" or "the Company"), a leading global finance firm focused on law, is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting today were approved by shareholders.

Among other matters, shareholders approved the dividend payment of 6.48¢ per share.  That dividend will be payable on 16 June 2017 to shareholders on the register as at the close of business on Friday 26 May 2017.

The votes received are detailed below:

Ordinary Resolutions	Total votes for	Total votes against	Total votes withheld
1.     To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 and the directors' and auditors' reports thereon	163,456,175	253,602	0
2.     To declare a final dividend of 6.48¢ (United States cents) per ordinary share	163,709,640	137	0
3.     To re-appoint Sir Peter Middleton as a director	163,078,135	629,580	2,063
4.     To re-appoint Charles Parkinson as a director	163,078,272	629,443	2,063
5.     To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditors	163,176,819	531,821	1,137
6.     To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration	163,431,558	278,219	0
7.     To authorise the directors to allot up to 69,412,660 shares and up to 138,825,319 by way of a rights issue	162,837,329	872,311	137
8.     To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares up to a specified amount	163,706,621	3,156	0
Special Resolutions
9.     To authorise the directors to allot shares for cash without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders (subject to the limitation set out in the resolution)	163,672,184	17,593	20,000

For further information, please contact:

Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker	[phone]
Jonny Allison
Nicholas Harland
Liberum Capital Limited-  Joint Broker	[phone]
Richard Crawley
Jamie Richards
Numis Securities Limited - Joint Broker	[phone]
Charlie Farquhar
Andrew Holloway
Neustria Partners - Financial Communications for Burford Capital	[phone]
Robert Bailhache     [[e-mail]]
Charles Gorman       [[e-mail]]
Nick Henderson        [[e-mail]]

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is a leading global finance firm focused on law.  Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with law firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London and Chicago.

For more information about Burford, visit www.burfordcapital.com

This release does not constitute an offer of any Burford fund.

 

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