AGM Information • Oct 30, 2019
AGM Information
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At an Annual General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 10.30 a.m. on 30 October 2019 at The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, the following Resolutions were duly passed: -
the Directors of the Company be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company, and to grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert any security into, shares in the Company, up to an aggregate nominal amount equal to the sum of £12,079,976.49, provided that this authority shall (unless previously renewed, revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting) expire at the conclusion of the period commencing with the date on which this resolution is passed and expiring at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or the date occurring 15 months from the date on which this resolution is passed, whichever is the earlier (the "Period of Authority"), save that the Company may before the expiry of such authority make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares in the Company to be granted after the expiry of the said period and the Directors may allot such sharers and/or grant such rights in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this Resolution had not expired, and so that the authority hereby be given shall be in substitution for all subsisting authorities under Section 551 of the Act.
subject to the passing of Resolution 11 above, the Directors of the Company be and are hereby empowered, until the conclusion of the Period of Authority, pursuant to Section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred upon them under Resolution 11 above as if Section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment and pursuant to Section 573 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of Section 560 of the Act) held by the Company as treasury shares (within the meaning of Section 724(5) of the Act) for cash as if Section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to:
(a) the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue, open offer or any other offer in favour of holders of Ordinary Shares (within the meaning of Section 560 of the Act) and any other persons entitled to participate in such issue or offering where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of such holders and persons are proportionate (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of Ordinary Shares held by or deemed to be held by them on the record date of such allotment, subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements or legal or practical problems arising under the laws or requirements of any territory or the requirements of any regulatory authority or any stock exchange;
(b) the allotment of equity securities (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above) up to an aggregate nominal amount equal to the sum of £1,811,996.47, and in respect of any such allotment, on terms that the shares constituting the equity securities allotted or for or into which the equity securities allotted give a right to subscribe or convert (as the case may be) shall be subscribed for or issued or sold (as the case may be) at a price per share not less than the net asset value per share calculated pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Company as at the Calculation Date (as defined in the Articles of Association of the Company) immediately preceding the issue (or sale) of such shares; save that the Company may, before the expiry of the Period of Authority, make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
the Company be and is hereby generally and, subject as hereinafter provided, unconditionally authorised in accordance with Section 701 of the Act, in substitution for all subsisting authorities under Section 701 of the Act, to make market purchases (within the meaning of Section 693 of the Act) of Ordinary Shares provided that:
(a) the maximum number of Ordinary Shares hereby authorised to be purchased is such number (rounded down to the nearest whole number) as is equal to 14.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding any Ordinary Shares held by the Company as treasury shares (within the meaning of Section 724(5) of the Act)) as at the date this Resolution is passed;
(b) the minimum price which may be paid for an Ordinary Share is £0.67;
(c) the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share shall be the higher of (i) 5% above the average of the middle market quotations for the Ordinary Shares as derived from the London Stock Exchange's Daily Official List for the five business days before the purchase is made and (ii) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid, as stipulated by regulatory technical standards adopted pursuant to article 5(6) of the Market Abuse Regulation; unless renewed, varied or revoked, the authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or the date occurring 18 months from the date on which this Resolution is passed, whichever is the earlier, save that the Company may, prior to such expiry, enter into a contract to purchase Ordinary Shares which will or may be completed or executed wholly or partly after such expiry and may make a purchase of Ordinary Shares in pursuance of any such contract.
a general meeting other than an annual general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
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