AGM Information • Jun 25, 2020
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of 3i Group plc duly convened and held at Little Court, Froghole Lane, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 6TD on Thursday 25 June 2020, the following Resolutions constituting special business were passed:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS:
Resolution 17: THAT the Company and any company which is or becomes a subsidiary of the Company at any time during the period for which this resolution has effect be authorised to:
Resolution 18: THAT the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised, in substitution for all subsisting authorities, to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company:
and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter,
such authorities to apply until the end of next year's Annual General Meeting (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 24 September 2021) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the authority ends and the Directors may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.
THAT: (A) the 3i Group Discretionary Share Plan ("the Plan"), a summary of which is set out in Appendix 3 to the Notice of the 2020 Annual General Meeting dated 13 May 2020, be and it is hereby approved and that the Directors be and they are hereby authorised to do all acts and things necessary to establish it and carry it into effect; and (B) the Directors be authorised to adopt further plans based on the Plan but modified to take account of local tax, exchange control or securities laws in overseas territories, provided that any cash or shares made available under such further plans are treated as counting against any limits on individual or overall participation in the Plan.
Resolution 20: THAT, if resolution 18 is passed, the Directors be given the power to allot equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006) for cash under the authority given by resolution 18 and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:
and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter; and
(b) in the case of the authority granted under paragraph (a) of resolution 18 and/or in the case of any sale of treasury shares for cash, to the allotment (otherwise than under paragraph (a) above) of equity securities or sale of treasury shares up to a nominal amount of £35,937,671,
such power to apply until the end of next year's Annual General Meeting (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 24 September 2021) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the power ends and the Directors may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not ended.
Resolution 21: THAT, if resolution 18 is passed, the Directors be given the power in addition to any power granted under resolution 20 to allot equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006) for cash under the authority granted under paragraph (a) of resolution 18 and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be:
such power to apply until the end of next year's Annual General Meeting (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 24 September 2021) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the power ends and the Directors may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not ended.
Resolution 22: THAT the Company be authorised to make one or more market purchases (as defined in section 693(4) of the Companies Act 2006) of its ordinary shares of 73 19/22p each such power to be limited:
in each case, exclusive of expenses,
such authority to apply until the end of next year's Annual General Meeting (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 24 September 2021) but in each case so that the Company may enter into a contract to purchase ordinary shares which would or might be completed or executed wholly or partly after the authority ends and the Company may purchase ordinary shares pursuant to any such contract as if the authority had not ended.
THAT, with effect from the end of the Annual General Meeting, the Articles of Association produced to the Meeting and signed by the Chairman of the Meeting for the purpose of identification, are adopted as the Articles of Association of the
Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Company's existing articles of association.
Resolution 24: THAT a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
For and on behalf of 3i Group plc
J C Murphy Deputy Company Secretary
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