Rathbone Brothers Plc : Result of AGM

RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')

RESULTS OF THE 2018 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-seventh Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 8 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7AZ on Thursday 10 May 2018, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 April 2018) were passed on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were special resolutions.

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/corporate-governance/general-meetings . A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The results of the poll were as follows:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes cast	Votes cast as a % of the voting capital	Withheld
1	To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2017	40,624,676	99.94	22,580	0.06	40,647,256	79.15%	437,752
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2017	35,351,465	86.91	5,323,547	13.09	40,675,012	79.20%	409,995
3	To approve the directors' remuneration policy	34,588,745	85.07	6,068,046	14.93	40,656,791	79.17%	428,216
4	To approve the amendments to the rules of the 2015 Executive Incentive Plan	40,481,820	98.82	483,186	1.18	40,965,006	79.77%	120,003
5	To declare a final dividend of 39p per share for the year ended 31 December 2017	41,071,609	100.00	0	0.00	41,071,609	79.97%	13,400
6	To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director	40,741,860	99.38	253,960	0.62	40,995,820	79.83%	89,188
7	To re-elect Philip Howell as a director	40,600,078	99.20	328,711	0.80	40,928,789	79.70%	156,220
8	To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director	40,952,990	99.71	117,060	0.29	41,070,050	79.97%	14,959
9	To re-elect James Dean as a director	40,816,545	99.69	125,770	0.31	40,942,315	79.72%	142,694
10	To elect Sarah Gentleman as a director	39,987,402	98.96	420,298	1.04	40,407,700	78.68%	677,309
11	To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director	40,754,874	99.54	187,441	0.46	40,942,315	79.72%	142,694
12	To re-elect Jim Pettigrew as a director	40,825,848	99.69	127,331	0.31	40,953,179	79.74%	131,830
13	To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company	40,543,803	99.17	339,124	0.83	40,882,927	79.61%	202,081
14	To authorise the audit committee to agree the remuneration of the auditors	40,898,049	99.85	59,959	0.15	40,958,008	79.75%	127,001
15	To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	40,094,279	97.88	870,475	2.12	40,964,754	79.77%	120,255
16	To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares	39,444,329	96.30	1,514,485	3.70	40,958,814	79.75%	126,195
17	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights	40,752,585	99.51	198,864	0.49	40,951,449	79.74%	133,560
18	To further authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights regarding shares issued in connection with an acquisition or capital investment	37,123,070	90.65	3,828,378	9.35	40,951,448	79.74%	133,560
19	To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	40,620,735	99.18	337,697	0.82	40,958,432	79.75%	126,576
20	To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) of not less than 14 days' notice	40,073,540	97.84	884,773	2.16	40,958,313	79.75%	126,696

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes cast are expressed as a percentage of 51,356,140 ordinary shares.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Ali Johnson
Company Secretary

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