Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9085O

Burford Capital

22 May 2018

 

This announcement contains inside information.

22 May 2018

BURFORD CAPITAL LIMITED

RESULT OF AGM

Burford Capital Limited ("Burford Capital" or "Burford" or "the Company"), the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law, is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting today were approved by shareholders.

Among other matters, shareholders approved the dividend payment of 7.95¢ per share.  That dividend will be payable on 22 June 2018 to shareholders on the register as at the close of business on Friday 1 June 2018.

The votes received are detailed below:

Ordinary Resolutions	Total votes for	Total votes against	Total votes withheld
1.     To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2017 and the directors' and auditors' reports thereon	148,464,184	3,794,958	146,494
2.     To declare a final dividend of 7.95¢ (United States cents) per ordinary share	152,405,636	0	0
3.     To re-appoint Hugh Steven Wilson as a director	150,200,911	2,204,510	215
4.     To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditors	151,092,653	1,312,983	0
5.     To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration	152,012,126	391,626	1,884
6.     To authorise the directors to allot up to 68,718,533 shares and up to 137,437,066 by way of a rights issue	149,255,466	2,920,500	229,670
7.     To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares up to a specified amount	152,064,477	227,160	113,999
Special Resolution
8.     To authorise the directors to allot shares for cash without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders (subject to the limitation set out in the resolution)	151,989,497	411,729	4,410

For further information, please contact:

Burford Capital Limited
Elizabeth O'Connell, CFA, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited - NOMAD and Joint Broker	[phone]
Jonny Allison
Nicholas Harland
Liberum Capital Limited -  Joint Broker	[phone]
Richard Crawley
Jamie Richards
Numis Securities Limited - Joint Broker	[phone]
Charlie Farquhar
Jonathan Abbot
Neustria Partners - Financial Communications for Burford Capital	[phone]
Robert Bailhache [email]
Charles Gorman [email]
Nick Henderson [email]

About Burford Capital

Burford Capital is the leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it works with law firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago and Singapore.

For more information about Burford: www.burfordcapital.com

 

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