Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4558O

Arix Bioscience Plc

17 May 2018

 

Arix Bioscience Plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

LONDON, 17 May, 2018: Arix Bioscience plc (LSE: ARIX) ("Arix Bioscience" or the "Company"), a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, announces that its Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") was held on Thursday 17 May 2018 at 11am (BST). At the Meeting, the ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting dated 20 April 2018 (the "Notice of AGM"), were proposed and passed by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

Full details of the poll results are set out below and will also be available on the Company's website www.arixbioscience.com.

No	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	TOTAL VOTES	% of ISC VOTED	VOTES WITHHELD
1	To receive the Directors' report and the accounts for the Company for the year ended 31 December 2017	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
2	To approved the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2017	50,988,886	90.12	5,591,495	9.88	56,580,381	41.98%	4,020
3	To re‐elect Dr Joseph Anderson as a Director	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
4	To re‐elect Professor Sir Christoher Evans as a Director	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
5	To re‐elect Dr Franz Humer as a Director	51,655,214	91.29	4,929,188	8.71	56,584,402	41.99%	0
6	To re‐elect Lord John Hutton of Furness as a Director	54,810,619	96.87	1,773,783	3.13	56,584,402	41.99%	0
7	To re‐elect Professor Trevor Jones as a Director	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
8	To re‐elect Jonathan Peacock as a Director	54,526,217	96.36	2,058,185	3.64	56,584,402	41.99%	0
9	To re‐elect James Rawlingson as a Director	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
10	To re‐elect David U'Prichard as a Director	55,183,865	97.53	1,399,000	2.47	56,582,865	41.99%	1,537
11	To elect Meghan FitzGerald as a Director	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
12	To elect Giles Kerr as a Director	56,582,865	100.00	0	0.00	56,582,865	41.99%	1,537
13	To re‐appoint PwC LLP as auditors of the Company	55,185,402	97.53	1,399,000	2.47	56,584,402	41.99%	0
14	To authorise the Audit & Risk Committee of the Company to fix the remuneration of  the auditors	56,584,402	100.00	0	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0
15	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	55,618,631	100.00	2,198	0.00	55,620,829	41.27%	963,573
16	To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre‐ emption rights in respect of 5% of the Company's issued share capital	53,013,611	95.32	2,605,020	4.68	55,618,631	41.27%	965,771
17	To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre‐ emption rights in respect of an additional 5% of the Company's issued share capital	51,614,611	92.80	4,004,020	7.20	55,618,631	41.27%	965,771
18	To authorise the Company to buy back shares	54,215,987	97.48	1,403,929	2.52	55,619,916	41.27%	964,486
19	To authorise the Directors to call a general meeting other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice	56,581,832	100.00	2,570	0.00	56,584,402	41.99%	0

Notes:

1.      Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chairman has been included in the "for" totals.

2.      A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution.

3.      The number of voting shares in issue at 6:00 p.m. on 15 May 2018 was 134,764,018 (the "Share Capital"). The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions passed at the Meeting concerning items other than ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism, which can be accessed at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

ENDS

Enquiries

For more information on Arix, please contact:

Arix Bioscience plc

Robert Lyne, Company Secretary

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Charlotte Parry, Investor Relations Manager

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Consilium Strategic Communications

Mary-Jane Elliott, Jessica Hodgson, Ivar Milligan

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About Arix Bioscience plc

Arix Bioscience plc is a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation. Headquartered in London and with an office in New York, Arix Bioscience sources, finances and builds world class healthcare and life science businesses addressing medical innovation at all stages of development. Operations are supported by privileged access to breakthrough academic science and strategic relationships with leading research accelerators and global pharmaceutical companies.

Arix Bioscience plc is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

For further information, please visit www.arixbioscience.com

 

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