Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4832O

Legal & General Group Plc

17 May 2018

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 17 MAY 2018

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

Resolution

For ¹

Against

Votes Withheld ²

No. of shares¹

No. of shares

Resolution 1

Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2017

4,249,186,406

99.98

996,802

0.02

1,344,366

Resolution 2

Declaration of a final dividend of 11.05p per ordinary share

4,249,559,123

100.00

134,439

0.00

1,828,647

Resolution 3

Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director

4,229,396,599

99.49

21,516,009

0.51

609,601

Resolution 4

Election of Philip Broadley as a Director

4,229,786,953

99.50

21,114,858

0.50

620,398

Resolution 5

Election of Jeff Davies as a Director

4,199,212,372

98.78

51,679,766

1.22

630,071

Resolution 6

Election of Sir John Kingman as a Director

4,211,993,538

99.09

38,671,324

0.91

859,495

Resolution 7

Election of Lesley Knox as a Director

4,214,770,637

99.15

36,103,400

0.85

648,172

Resolution 8

Election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director

4,218,157,504

99.23

32,780,259

0.77

584,446

Resolution 9

Election of Toby Strauss as a Director

4,230,285,889

99.52

20,604,496

0.48

631,824

Resolution 10

Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director

4,226,355,913

99.42

24,560,495

0.58

607,949

Resolution 11

Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director

4,222,652,248

99.33

28,399,188

0.67

472,921

Resolution 12

Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director

4,218,330,346

99.23

32,671,605

0.77

520,258

Resolution 13

Appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors

4,243,155,722

99.81

7,955,444

0.19

411,168

Resolution 14

To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration

4,243,473,215

99.82

7,764,867

0.18

281,263

Resolution 15

Approval of Remuneration Report

4,169,081,055

98.17

77,681,315

1.83

4,760,192

Resolution 16

Authority to allot equity securities

4,230,237,001

99.51

20,645,256

0.49

634,940

Resolution 17

Authority to allot contingent convertible securities

4,187,149,375

98.50

63,634,225

1.50

733,597

Resolution 18

Authority to make political donations

4,101,892,403

96.96

128,775,939

3.04

20,852,867

Resolution 19*

Disapplication of pre-emption rights

4,197,195,828

98.74

53,532,893

1.26

788,476

Resolution 20*

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights

4,092,521,494

96.28

158,218,401

3.72

777,302

Resolution 21*

Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS

4,155,213,040

97.75

95,482,287

2.25

821,070

Resolution 22*

Authority to purchase own shares

4,184,256,494

98.48

64,725,528

1.52

2,535,175

Resolution 23*

Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice

4,026,885,921

95.16

204,719,052

4.84

19,916,434

Notes:

1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.

4 Voting was conducted by poll.

5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,241,121,352 representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 15 May 2018. At the close of business on 15 May 2018, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,958,825,817 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

* Denotes a Special Resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/investor-news/rns

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do