Result of Meeting

Henderson Eurotrust PLC

04 July 2024

 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:  213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12

4 July 2024

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

Result of Second General Meeting, Suspension and Cancellation

of Reclassified Shares and Scheme Entitlements

In connection with the proposals for the merger of interests of Henderson EuroTrust plc (the "Company") with Henderson European Focus Trust  plc ("HEFT") to form Henderson European Trust plc (the "Combined Trust") by means of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme") and the issue of New HEFT Shares to Shareholders who are deemed to have elected to roll over their investment into the Combined Trust, the Board is pleased to announce the result of the Second General Meeting and the Scheme Entitlements. 

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 20 May 2024 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.hendersoneurotrust.com.

Result of the Second General Meeting

The Company announces that the special resolution to place the Company into members' voluntary liquidation was voted on and approved by Shareholders at the Second General Meeting held earlier today. Accordingly, Derek Neil Hyslop and Richard Peter Barker (together the "Liquidators"), both of Ernst & Young LLP of 1 More London Place, London, SE1 2AF have been appointed as joint liquidators of the Company. Details of the number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the resolution, which was held on a poll, are set out below and will also be published on the Company's website www.hendersoneurotrust.com.

The poll results were as follows:

Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Total votes cast	% Issued Share Capital	Votes withheld
To place the Company into members' voluntary liquidation and appoint the Liquidators	97,324,647	99.87	124,690	0.13	97,449,337	46.00	85,012

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at 6.30 p.m. on 2 July 2024 (211,855,410), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in order to vote at the Second General Meeting.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" the Resolution.

The number of Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 211,855,410. There are no Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 211,855,410.

The full text of the Resolution can be found in the notice of Second General Meeting contained in the Circular.

Suspension and Cancellation of Reclassified Shares

The Company's Reclassified Shares were suspended from listing on the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and from trading on the London Stock Exchange at 7.30 a.m. this morning, 4 July 2024, in anticipation of the Second General Meeting.

The Company, through its advisers, has notified the Financial Conduct Authority and the London Stock Exchange of the Company's intention to cancel the Company's admission of the Reclassified Shares to listing and trading at 8.00 a.m. on 11 July 2024.

Scheme Entitlements

As at the Calculation Date the entitlements calculated in accordance with the terms of the Scheme were as follows:

•           HNE Rollover FAV per Share: 172.296884 pence

•           HNE Cash FAV per Share: 168.257098 pence

•           HEFT FAV per Share: 205.473998 pence

Therefore, Shareholders will receive the following cash and/or number of New HEFT Shares.

For Shareholders that elected (or are deemed to have elected) to receive New HEFT Shares:

•           each Reclassified Share with "A" rights attached to it will receive 0.838534 New HEFT Shares.

Fractional entitlements to New HEFT Shares will not be issued under the Scheme and entitlements will be rounded down to the nearest whole number. No cash payment will be made or returned in respect of any fractional entitlements, which will be retained for the benefit of HEFT.

For Shareholders that elected for the Cash Option:

•           each Reclassified Share with "B" rights attached to it will receive 168.257098 pence in cash.

As noted in the Circular, the Directors have set aside sufficient assets in the Liquidation Pool to meet all estimated liabilities and contingencies, including the costs of the winding up of the Company and the costs of implementing the Scheme. The Directors have also provided in the Liquidation Pool for a retention of £100,000 which they, together with the Liquidators, consider sufficient to meet any unknown or unascertained liabilities of the Company.

The Liquidation Pool will be applied by the Liquidators in discharging all current and future actual and contingent liabilities of the Company. Any balance remaining after discharging such liabilities from the Liquidation Pool will in due course be distributed to Shareholders pro rata to their respective holdings of Shares in accordance with the terms of the Scheme.

In accordance with the Circular, Shareholders who elected, or were deemed to have elected, for the Rollover Option will receive their New HEFT Shares via CREST on 5 July 2024 and, in relation to certificated Shareholders, share certificates in respect of New HEFT Shares will be despatched by 18 July 2024. Shareholders who elected for the Cash Option will have their entitlements despatched in the week commencing 8 July 2024 via CREST and/or cheque.

Following the appointment of the Liquidators, all further enquiries regarding the Company should be made to the Liquidators, whose contact details are below.

For further information please contact:

Liquidators Derek Neil Hyslop	0131 460 2397
Richard Peter Barker

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

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