Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8712C

North Atlantic Smlr Co Inv Tst PLC

23 June 2021

 

North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC (the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company held today (23 June 2021), all of the resolutions, as set out in full in the notice of the Meeting dated 20 May 2021 (the "Notice"), including the waiver of the requirements of Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers in connection with the Company's ability to buy back its own shares (Resolution 16), were duly passed as below.

Resolutions 1 to 3 and 5 to 12 were passed by way of show of hands and Resolutions 4 and 13 to 16 were passed by way of polls using the proxy votes.

Proxy votes received

Resolution	For	Against	Votes Withheld
1	8,219,166	4,031	2,355
2	8,215,037	7,561	2,954
3	8,214,897	8,200	2,455
4	8,209,208	8,221	8,214
5	7,775,858	447,008	2,686
6	7,181,921	1,039,495	2,436
7	8,216,278	4,878	2,686
8	8,212,568	5,078	6,206
9	8,213,138	4,508	6,206
10	8,218,238	4,878	2,436
11	8,218,808	4,308	2,436
12	8,148,877	73,239	3,436
13	7,966,958	255,357	3,237
14	8,216,479	6,148	2,925
15	8,197,230	23,128	5,174
16*	2,678,134	1,419,722	4,127,696

*   Resolution 16 was put to the Meeting as a resolution of the independent shareholders of the Company. As a result, 9,878,260 of the ordinary shares in issue were eligible to vote on this resolution, these shares not being held by the Concert Party (as defined in the Notice). The waiver of Rule 9 granted by Resolution 16 permits the Concert Party's interest in the Company's shares to increase from 29.44% to a maximum of 32.71% (in each case representing 4,121,740 ordinary shares) as a result of the share buyback authorised by Resolution 14 without requiring the Concert Party to make a mandatory offer for the other shareholders' shares. The results of the poll vote on this Resolution 16 were 2,678,134 votes for, 1,419,722 against, 4,127,696 abstentions, therefore with 65.35% in favour of the resolution.

Contact:

Jane Muir

For Derringtons Limited

Company Secretary

020 8819 6486

 

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