Result of AGM

Henderson European Trust Plc

29 January 2025

 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

HENDERSON EUROPEAN TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800GS89AL1DK3IN50

29 January 2025

HENDERSON EUROPEAN TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Henderson European Trust plc (the 'Company') announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included:

As an ordinary resolution:

§ Resolution 11: To authorise the directors to allot new ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital;

As special resolutions:

§ Resolution 12: to authorise the directors to allot or sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption rights;

§ Resolution 13: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of up to 14.99% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital;

§ Resolution 14: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice;

§ Resolution 15: to cancel the share premium account, subject to High Court approval.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 11 December 2024 in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2024 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersoneuropean.com.

The poll results were as follows:

Resolution			Number of votes FOR	% of votes FOR	Number of votes AGAINST	% of votes AGAINST	Total votes cast	% Issued Share Capital	Votes withheld
Ordinary
1.	To receive the Annual Report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2024		144,748,291	99.84	239,016	0.16	144,987,307	45.44%	98,471
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 September 2024		144,204,896	99.59	597,577	0.41	144,802,473	45.38%	283,305
3.	To approve a final dividend of 1.30p per ordinary share		144,656,177	99.84	234,276	0.16	144,890,453	45.41%	195,325
4.	To elect Stephen King as a director of the Company		144,589,930	99.79	301,184	0.21	144,891,114	45.41%	194,664
5.	To elect Rutger Koopmans as a director of the Company		144,573,657	99.78	317,457	0.22	144,891,114	45.41%	194,664
6.	To re-elect Victoria (Vicky) Hastings as a director of the Company		144,384,120	99.67	473,298	0.33	144,857,418	45.40%	228,360
7.	To re-elect Marco Maria Bianconi as a director of the Company		144,149,338	99.48	751,476	0.52	144,900,814	45.41%	184,964
8.	To re-elect Melanie Blake as a director of the Company		144,429,193	99.67	471,621	0.33	144,900,814	45.41%	184,964
9.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the statutory auditor of the Company		144,416,291	99.72	406,605	0.28	144,822,896	45.39%	262,882
10.	To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the statutory auditor's remuneration		144,552,218	99.81	281,344	0.19	144,833,562	45.39%	252,216
11.	To authorise the directors to allot new ordinary shares or sell existing shares from treasury		144,623,836	99.77	335,251	0.23	144,959,087	45.43%	126,691
Special
12.	To disapply pre-emption rights on the allotment or sale of ordinary shares		144,165,532	99.56	631,391	0.44	144,796,923	45.38%	288,855
13.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares		143,277,424	98.84	1,683,649	1.16	144,961,073	45.43%	124,705
14.	To authorise general meetings (other than AGMs) to be held on 14 clear days' notice		144,420,522	99.68	469,282	0.32	144,889,804	45.41%	195,974
15.	To cancel the share premium account, subject to High Court approval		144,490,304	99.74	374,277	0.26	144,864,581	45.40%	221,197

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on 27 January 2025 (318,516,837), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the annual general meeting.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 367,390,497. On a poll the voting rights are one vote for every one share held.  The number of voting rights is therefore 318,373,363 (49,017,134 shares being held in Treasury).

The poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at: www.hendersoneuropean.com.

The special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The Company also announces that from the conclusion of today's Annual General Meeting, Robin Archibald retired from the Board. Melanie Blake succeeds Robin as Audit and Risk Committee Chair.

For further information please contact:

Dan Howe Head of Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Tel: [phone]

Harriet Hall PR Director, Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Tel: [phone]

Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited Corporate Secretary Telephone: [phone]

 

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