Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3285Z

Legal & General Group Plc

20 May 2021

 

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 20 MAY 2021

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at One 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 2020	3,968,578,081	100.00	72,943	0.00	3,131,851
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 12.64p per ordinary share	3,939,505,595	99.19	32,068,426	0.81	208,854
Resolution 3 Election of Ric Lewis as a Director	3,959,857,095	99.71	11,335,910	0.29	589,870
Resolution 4 Election of Nilufer von Bismarck as a Director	3,970,758,054	99.99	430,158	0.01	594,663
Resolution 5 Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director	3,918,173,097	98.67	52,984,567	1.33	625,211
Resolution 6 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director	3,893,207,669	98.04	77,856,118	1.96	719,088
Resolution 7 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director	3,957,630,328	99.66	13,582,109	0.34	570,438
Resolution 8 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director	3,736,401,100	96.55	133,367,545	3.45	102,014,228
Resolution 9 Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director	3,878,766,480	97.67	92,457,659	2.33	558,736
Resolution 10 Re-election of George Lewis as a Director	3,920,910,647	98.73	50,239,645	1.27	632,583
Resolution 11 Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director	3,921,338,381	98.75	49,813,652	1.25	630,842
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director	3,970,836,069	99.99	411,078	0.01	535,728
Resolution 13 Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors	3,919,121,589	98.68	52,249,703	1.32	411,583
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration	3,940,021,713	99.21	31,418,417	0.79	342,745
Resolution 15 Approval of Remuneration Report	3,858,805,163	97.17	112,466,802	2.83	510,910
Resolution 16 Authority to allot equity securities	3,925,331,936	98.84	46,106,649	1.16	344,290
Resolution 17 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities	3,937,640,023	99.15	33,710,861	0.85	431,990
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations	3,878,069,376	97.66	93,095,462	2.34	616,036
Resolution 19* Disapplication of pre-emption rights	3,958,288,284	99.67	12,985,584	0.33	507,007
Resolution 20* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	3,873,208,287	97.53	98,104,325	2.47	468,262
Resolution 21* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS	3,926,590,014	98.88	44,673,342	1.12	517,518
Resolution 22* Authority to purchase own shares	3,896,914,712	98.47	60,425,387	1.53	14,442,775
Resolution 23* To adopt new Articles of Association	3,970,904,564	99.99	247,327	0.01	630,984
Resolution 24* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice	3,654,776,173	92.03	316,696,434	7.97	310,267

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 3,971,574,021 representing 66.55% of voting capital as at 18 May 2021.  At the close of business on 18 May 2021, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,967,625,491 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

Name of person making notification: Leanne Cornish

Contact Number: 020 3124 2107

Date of notification: 20 May 2021

 

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