Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0474A

Legal & General Group Plc

23 May 2019

 

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 23 MAY 2019

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JP 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 2018	4,132,052,557	100.00	22,069	0.00	52,977,631
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 11.82p per ordinary share	4,179,683,025	99.88	5,170,882	0.12	198,350
Resolution 3 Election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director	4,182,465,948	99.96	1,768,846	0.04	817,463
Resolution 4 Election of George Lewis as a Director	4,177,165,466	99.83	7,023,022	0.17	863,769
Resolution 5 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director	4,113,444,896	98.31	70,715,466	1.69	891,895
Resolution 6 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director	4,129,262,973	98.69	54,957,299	1.31	831,985
Resolution 7 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director	4,106,311,476	98.61	57,918,684	1.39	20,822,097
Resolution 8 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director	4,104,385,109	98.09	79,716,908	1.91	950,240
Resolution 9 Re-election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director	4,155,930,579	99.32	28,266,998	0.68	854,680
Resolution 10 Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director	4,159,520,432	99.41	24,674,380	0.59	857,445
Resolution 11 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director	4,158,962,992	99.40	25,258,258	0.60	831,007
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director	4,161,710,089	99.46	22,484,376	0.54	857,792
Resolution 13 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director	4,157,320,652	99.36	26,853,584	0.64	878,021
Resolution 14 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors	4,176,209,685	99.80	8,542,310	0.20	297,193
Resolution 15 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration	4,178,001,108	99.84	6,719,909	0.16	331,240
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report	4,066,344,533	97.83	90,018,275	2.17	28,689,449
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities	4,170,855,442	99.67	13,818,488	0.33	360,258
Resolution 18 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities	4,154,578,003	99.28	30,158,288	0.72	300,966
Resolution 19 Authority to make political donations	4,007,214,842	96.21	157,933,969	3.79	19,888,446
Resolution 20 Renewal of the Legal & General Group Savings-Related Option Scheme	4,149,010,568	99.15	35,551,404	0.85	490,285
Resolution 21 Renewal of the Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan	4,172,602,882	99.71	12,049,619	0.29	397,604
Resolution 22* Disapplication of pre-emption rights	4,178,460,494	99.86	6,053,255	0.14	521,356
Resolution 23* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	4,072,496,364	97.32	112,014,470	2.68	513,646
Resolution  24* Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS	4,133,011,107	98.77	51,498,330	1.23	527,820
Resolution  25* Authority to purchase own shares	4,152,366,083	99.27	30,494,137	0.73	2,183,906
Resolution  26* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice	3,938,003,149	94.55	227,034,378	5.45	20,014,730

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 4,184,853,907 representing 70.20% of voting capital as at 21 May 2019.  At the close of business on 21 May 2019, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,960,948,551 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/shareholder-centre/agm/

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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Name of person making notification:	Daniella Newson
Contact number:	020 3124 2107
Date of notification:	23 May 2019

 

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