Directorate Change

European Opportunities Trust PLC

10 August 2023

 

European Opportunities Trust PLC (the 'Company')

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300XN7RXQWHN18849

Appointment to the Board

The Board of European Opportunities Trust PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Manisha Shukla as an independent non-executive Director of the Company. Manisha will join the Board on 1 September 2023.

Manisha is a highly experienced legal adviser with over 20 years of specialisation in investment funds. She qualified as a solicitor in 2000 and has worked in both private practice and in-house, focusing on a broad range of closed-ended listed investment funds. She has been the knowledge counsel for funds at Travers Smith LLP since 2014. Manisha holds a joint LLB in Law and Japanese from Cardiff University.

Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on Manisha's appointment as a new director at the AGM later this year.

Manisha will be appointed as a member of Audit & Risk, Nominations, Remuneration, and Management Engagement Committees with effect from her appointment to the Board. She holds 630 shares in the Company.

As previously announced, Virginia Holmes, the Company's Senior Independent Director, intends to retire from the Board at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. Virginia has served on the Board since 2017 and the Board would like to thank her on behalf of all of the Company's stakeholders for her valuable contribution to the Company throughout her years of service. Lord Lamont will succeed Virginia as Senior Independent Director with effect from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.

There are no other details to be disclosed under paragraph 9.6.13 of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority.

Matthew Dobbs, Chair of the Company, said:

"I am delighted that Manisha has agreed to join the Board of European Opportunities Trust. Manisha brings a deep knowledge of the complex legal and regulatory environment within which the Company operates. Her arrival will enhance the complementary mix of skills and expertise of our existing Directors."

For further information, please contact:

Devon Equity Management Limited

Company Secretaries to European Opportunities Trust PLC

Richard Pavry

[e-mail] 

020 3985 0445

www.europeanopportunities.com

 

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