AGM Information • Sep 27, 2024
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of the above-named Company duly convened and held at Hilton London Tower Bridge, 5 More London Place, Tooley Street, London, SE1 2BY on Thursday, 26 September 2024, the following Resolutions were duly passed:
THAT, in accordance with sections 366 and 367 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act'), the Company and all companies that are, at any time during the period for which this resolution has effect, subsidiaries of the Company be authorised to:
in each case during the period beginning with the date of passing this resolution and ending at the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, 15 months from the passing of this resolution), and provided that the aggregate amount of political donations and political expenditure so made and incurred by the Company and its subsidiaries pursuant to this resolution shall not exceed £100,000.
THAT the Board be generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Act, in substitution for all subsisting authorities, to exercise all powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £214,425,736, such authority to expire at the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, 15 months from the passing of this resolution) save that under such authority the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares to be granted after such expiry and the Directors may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the relevant authority conferred hereby had not expired.
THAT, if Resolution 17 is passed, in subsitition for all subsisting authorities, the Board be given power to allot equity securities (as defined in the Act) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares of the Company held as treasury shares for cash, in each case, as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:
ii. to holders of other equity securities, as required by the rights of those securities, or as the Board otherwise considers necessary,
and so that the Board may impose any limits, exclusions or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, or legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter (including any matters arising by virtue of equity securities being represented by depositary receipts);
such power to apply until the conclusion of next year's AGM (or, if earlier, 15 months from the passing of this resolution) save that the Company may, before such expiry, make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities and/or sell treasury shares in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the relevant power conferred hereby had not expired.
THAT the Company be authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares on such terms and in such manner as the Board may from time to time determine but subject to the following restrictions and provisions:
THAT a general meeting of the Company other than an AGM may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
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