Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4149D

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

26 April 2017

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

26 APRIL 2017

RESULT OF AGM

All resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 26 April 2017 were passed by shareholders.  Resolutions 1 - 19 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 20 - 23 as Special Resolutions.  

London Stock Exchange Group plc Annual General Meeting Poll Results

	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	% OF RELEVANT SHARES IN ISSUE	VOTES WITHHELD
1	To receive the annual report and accounts	261,051,776	99.59	1,073,890	0.41	262,125,666	74.98%	44,182
2	To declare a dividend	262,063,028	99.98	63,556	0.02	262,126,584	74.98%	43,264
3	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration and the annual statement of the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee	258,328,323	98.56	3,772,162	1.44	262,100,485	74.98%	68,763
4	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	252,081,916	98.48	3,886,744	1.52	255,968,660	73.22%	6,200,579
5	To re-elect Jacques Aigrain as a Director	256,973,985	98.14	4,873,715	1.86	261,847,700	74.90%	322,148
6	To re-elect Donald Brydon CBE as a Director	253,671,383	99.16	2,161,563	0.84	255,832,946	73.18%	6,336,902
7	To re-elect Paul Heiden as a Director	261,387,922	99.72	737,106	0.28	262,125,028	74.98%	44,820
8	To re-elect Professor Lex Hoogduin as a Director	259,210,306	98.89	2,897,768	1.11	262,108,074	74.98%	61,774
9	To re-elect Raffaele Jerusalmi as a Director	260,987,541	99.57	1,137,805	0.43	262,125,346	74.98%	44,502
10	To re-elect David Nish as a Director	259,698,352	99.07	2,425,155	0.93	262,123,507	74.98%	46,341
11	To re-elect Stephen O'Connor as a Director	259,775,691	99.10	2,347,816	0.90	262,123,507	74.98%	46,341
12	To re-elect Xavier  Rolet KBE as a Director	260,874,415	99.52	1,251,691	0.48	262,126,106	74.98%	43,742
13	To re-elect Mary Schapiro as a Director	260,273,106	99.58	1,086,910	0.42	261,360,016	74.76%	809,832
14	To re-elect David Warren as a Director	260,245,966	99.28	1,877,541	0.72	262,123,507	74.98%	46,341
15	To elect Andrea Sironi as a Director	259,779,858	99.10	2,346,406	0.90	262,126,264	74.98%	43,584
16	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	262,003,633	99.95	122,128	0.05	262,125,761	74.98%	44,087
17	To authorise the Directors to approve the auditors' remuneration	261,880,638	99.91	245,938	0.09	262,126,576	74.98%	43,272
18	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	256,925,608	98.01	5,228,359	1.99	262,153,967	74.99%	15,881
19	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure	225,628,282	99.67	754,213	0.33	226,382,495	64.76%	35,790,537
20	To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of an allotment of equity securities for cash	260,530,519	99.99	33,948	0.01	260,564,467	74.54%	1,605,380
21	To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of a further allotment of equity securities for cash, for the purposes of financing a transaction	256,237,481	98.34	4,327,056	1.66	260,564,537	74.54%	1,605,313
22	To grant the Directors authority to purchase the Company's own shares	260,601,856	99.50	1,310,642	0.50	261,912,498	74.92%	257,350
23	That a general meeting other than an annual general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	252,154,064	96.20	9,971,092	3.80	262,125,156	74.98%	44,691

Notes

1.      Please note a 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.

2.      As at 6.30pm on 24 April 2017, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 350,435,902 ordinary shares. At that time, the register of members of the Company recorded that 856,870 of those ordinary shares were held as treasury shares. Therefore, the total voting rights as at that time were 349,579,032.

3.      Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

4.      The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

Results of the poll will also be available shortly on the Company's website:  http://www.lseg.com/investor-relations/shareholder-services/agm-information

Further information is available from:

London Stock Exchange Group plc

Gavin Sullivan	Media	[phone]
Paul Froud	Investor Relations	[phone]

 

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