Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6436N

Legal & General Group Plc

21 May 2020

 

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 21 MAY 2020

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at 1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA 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 2019	4,301,033,565	100.00	51,627	0.00	5,511,070
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 12.64p per ordinary share	4,292,766,661	99.68	13,687,097	0.32	142,504
Resolution 3 Election of Michelle Scrimgeour as a Director	4,272,635,530	99.22	33,521,729	0.78	439,003
Resolution 4 Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director	4,268,136,293	99.12	37,713,879	0.88	746,090
Resolution 5 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director	4,260,794,963	99.02	42,094,708	0.98	3,706,591
Resolution 6 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director	4,262,572,077	98.99	43,433,340	1.01	590,845
Resolution 7 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director	4,259,991,962	98.93	46,028,067	1.07	576,233
Resolution 8 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director	4,216,364,534	97.99	86,648,594	2.01	3,583,134
Resolution 9 Re-election of George Lewis as a Director	4,256,640,622	98.92	46,259,430	1.08	3,696,210
Resolution 10 Re-election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director	4,272,099,397	99.21	33,914,838	0.79	582,027
Resolution 11 Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director	4,264,241,323	99.03	41,598,315	0.97	756,624
Resolution 12 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director	4,262,949,452	99.00	43,029,061	1.00	617,748
Resolution 13 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director	4,279,417,179	99.38	26,640,179	0.62	538,904
Resolution 14 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors	4,297,894,923	99.81	8,282,558	0.19	418,781
Resolution 15 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration	4,294,245,109	99.72	11,932,706	0.28	418,447
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Policy	4,109,620,878	95.71	184,122,218	4.29	12,853,165
Resolution 17 Approval of Remuneration Report	4,089,839,555	95.40	197,291,047	4.60	19,465,659
Resolution 18 Authority to allot equity securities	4,258,196,462	98.88	48,153,560	1.12	246,240
Resolution 19 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities	4,271,643,788	99.27	31,592,758	0.73	3,359,715
Resolution 20 Authority to make political donations	4,150,980,966	96.39	155,304,772	3.61	310,524
Resolution 21* Disapplication of pre-emption rights	4,234,148,482	98.39	69,207,175	1.61	3,240,605
Resolution 22* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	4,269,250,175	99.15	36,780,344	0.85	565,743
Resolution  23* Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS	4,252,907,716	98.84	50,104,912	1.16	3,583,633
Resolution  24* Authority to purchase own shares	4,225,110,260	98.17	78,594,278	1.83	2,891,723
Resolution  25* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice	4,013,628,988	93.03	300,656,475	6.97	170,705

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 votes cast was 4,314,285,463 representing 72.32% of voting capital as at 19 May 2020.  At the close of business on 19 May 2020, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,965,572,140 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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism   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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

AGM statements from the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer have been made available on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/media-centre/videos/ .

Name of person making notification:	Daniella Newson
Contact number:	020 3124 2107
Date of notification:	21 May 2020

 

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