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 

Name of person making notification:	Olaitan Popoola
Contact number:	020 3124 2108
Date of notification:	17 May 2018

 

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