Results of Extraordinary General Meeting

RNS Number : 8841Y

Qatar Investment Fund PLC

11 December 2017

 

11 December 2017

Legal Entity Identifier: 2138009DIENFWKC3PW84

Qatar Investment Fund plc

("QIF" or the "Company")

Results of Extraordinary General Meeting

Results of Poll

The Board of Qatar Investment Fund plc announces that further to the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 7 December 2017, at which a poll was called for 8 December 2017, all Resolutions were passed. The results are shown below.

	For	Against	Withheld
Resolution 1 (Ordinary Resolution)	67,429,254 (85%)	11,977,960 (15%)	16,463
Resolution 2 (Special Resolution)	67,429,254 (85%)	11,977,960 (15%)	16,463
Resolution 3 (Ordinary Resolution)	79,422,326 (100%)	1,351 (0%)	nil
Resolution 4 (Special Resolution)	67,429,254 (85%)	11,977,960 (15%)	16,463

The total number of votes cast was 79,407,214 in respect of resolutions 1,2 and 4 and 79,423,677 in respect of resolution 3, which, in each case,  represents approximately 77 per cent. of the Company's total voting rights.

As such, the Amended Investment Policy as set out in the Circular is adopted as the Company's investment policy, and the Amended Articles as set out in the Circular are adopted as the Company's articles, with immediate effect.

A copy of the poll results will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/NSM

Results of Tender Offer

Further to the announcement of the proposed tender offer on 10 November 2017, the Board of the Company announces that the tender offer for the purchase of up to 10,273,471 Shares (representing 10.0 per cent. of the Shares in issue as at 9 November 2017, excluding treasury shares) closed at 1.00 p.m. on 4 December 2017.

A total of 10,014,467 Shares were validly tendered under the Basic Entitlement of the Tender Offer. This equates to approximately 9.75 per cent. of the Shares in issue as at 9 November 2017 (excluding treasury shares), and approximately 97.48 per cent. of the Shares available under the Tender Offer. Excess tenders will be satisfied to the extent of a further 259,004 Shares, representing 0.43 per cent. of the excess Shares tendered.

In total, 10,273,471 Shares were validly tendered under the Tender Offer, representing 10.0 per cent. of the Company's Shares in issue as at 9 November 2017 (excluding treasury shares), all of which will be repurchased by the Company and cancelled.

Details of the Tender Price are expected to be announced on 18 December 2017.

Capitalised terms and expressions have the same meanings as those attributed to them in the Company's Circular dated 10 November 2017.

For further information:

Qatar Investment Fund Plc [phone]

Nick Wilson

Panmure Gordon [phone]

Richard Gray / Andrew Potts / Atholl Tweedie

Maitland [phone]

William Clutterbuck / Cebuan Bliss

Galileo Fund Services Limited [phone]

Ian Dungate / Suzanne Jones

 

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