Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5754V

Macau Property Opportunities Fund

03 November 2010

 



Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited

 ("MPO" or the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting (the "AGM")

The Company is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its AGM, held at 2.30pm on 3 November 2010, were duly passed without amendment.

In accordance with LR 9.6.18, details of those resolutions passed, which were not ordinary business of the AGM, follow:-

Resolution	Votes For (including discretionary)	Votes Against	Votes Withheld
9 - Special	71,336,029(100%)	0	0
10 - Extraordinary	62,910,393(88.19%)	8,425,636	0

The full wording of these resolutions can be found below:-

Resolution 9 - Special Resolution

To consider, as special business which will be proposed as a Special Resolution, THAT the Company in accordance with Section 315 of The Companies (Guernsey) Law 2008 (the "Law") be approved to make market purchases (as defined in Section 316 of the Law) either for retention as treasury shares, or cancellation, provided that:-

i)     the maximum number of shares authorised to be purchased is up to 14.99 percent of the shares in issue;

ii)    the minimum price which may be paid for a share is £0.01;

iii)   the maximum price which may be paid for a share is an amount equal to the higher of (a)105 percent of the average of the middle market quotations for a share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which that share is purchased and either the higher of the price of the last independent trade and (b) the highest current independent bid at the time of purchase;

iv)    subject to paragraph (v), such authority shall expire at the next annual general meeting of the Company unless such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such date by a special resolution of the Company in general meeting;

v)     notwithstanding paragraph (iv), the Company may make a contract to purchase shares under such authority prior to its expiry which will or may be executed wholly or partly after its expiration and the Company may make a purchase of shares pursuant to any such contract.

Resolution 10 - Extraordinary Resolution

To consider, as special business which will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, THAT the Directors be and they are hereby empowered to allot Ordinary Shares for cash and to sell Ordinary Shares from Treasury as if pre-emption rights did not apply to any such allotment, provided that:

i)     this power shall be limited to the allotment or sale of Ordinary Shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of US$105,000 being ten percent of the issued share capital of the Company;

ii)    this power shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; and

iii)   the Company may before such expiry make an offer which would or might require Ordinary Shares to be allotted or sold after such expiry and the Directors may allot or sell Ordinary Shares in pursuance of such offer.

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About Macau Property Opportunities Fund

Macau Property Opportunities Fund Limited is a closed-end investment fund registered in Guernsey. Its shares began trading on AIM in June 2006, when it raised £105 million in an institutional placing, before moving to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in June 2010. The Company's investment policy is to provide shareholders with an attractive total return through investing in property opportunities in one of the world's fastest growing and most dynamic regions - Macau and the Western Pearl River Delta of Southern China.

The Fund is managed by Sniper Capital Limited, an independent investment manager that specialises in property investment opportunities in niche, undervalued and developing markets.

For further information:

Website: www.mpofund.com

Public Relations

MHP Communications

Simon Hockridge / Andrew Jaques 

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Corporate Broker

Collins Stewart Europe Limited

David Yovichic / Dominic Waters

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Company Secretary & Administrator

Heritage International Fund Managers Limited

Mark Huntley / Laurence McNairn

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Manager

Sniper Capital Limited

Joyce Lo

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Email: [e-mail]

www.snipercapital.com

Stock Codes:

Bloomberg:    MPO LN

Reuters:      MPO.L

 

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