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Volta Finance Ltd.

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements Dec 7, 2022

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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements

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VOLTA FINANCE LIMITED Annual General Meeting 7 December 2022 – Voting Schedule

RESULTS OF PROXY VOTING RIGHTS RECEIVED

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS FOR AGAINST WITHHELD TOTAL VOTES
(excl. votes
withheld)
1 To adopt the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 July 2022,
including the reports of the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") and the Auditor
(together the "Accounts").
2,345,564
(100%)
0
(0%)
0 2,345,564
2 To re-appoint KPMG Channel Islands Limited of Glategny Court, Glategny Esplanade, St Peter
Port, Guernsey GY1 1WR as the Company's Auditor to hold office until the conclusion of the next
AGM.
2,345,196
(100%)
0
(0%)
368 2,345,196
3 To authorise the Board to negotiate and fix the remuneration of the Auditor in respect of the year
ending 31 July 2023.
2,345,564
(100%)
0
(0%)
0 2,345,564
4 To re-elect Graham Harrison as an Independent Director of the Company. 2,337,271
(100%)
0
(0%)
8,293 2,337,271
5 To re-elect Dagmar Kershaw as an Independent Director of the Company. 2,337,271
(100%)
0
(0%))
8,293 2,337,271
6 To re-elect Stephen Le Page as an Independent Director of the Company. 2,337,271
(100%)
0
(0%)
8,293 2,337,271
7 To elect Yedau Ogoundele as an Independent Director of the Company. 2,337,171
(99.90%)
2,293
(0.10%)
6,100 2,339,464
8 To approve the quarterly dividend policy of paying approximately 8% of NAV per annum, absent of
a notable change in circumstances with a dividend payment date in January, April, July and
October.
2,345,564
(100%)
0
(0%)
0 2,345,564
SPECIAL BUSINESS - SPECIAL RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST WITHHELD TOTAL VOTES
(excl. votes
withheld)
9 THAT in accordance with Article 5(7) of the Articles, the Board be and is hereby authorised to issue
equity securities (within the meaning of the Articles) as if Article 5(2) of the Articles did not apply to
any such issue, provided that this power shall be limited to the issue of up to a maximum number
of 3,658,058 Ordinary shares (being not more than 10% of the number of Ordinary shares in issue
2,340,850
(99.98%)
4,714
(0.20%)
0 2,345,564

VOLTA FINANCE LIMITED Annual General Meeting 8 December 2021 – Voting Schedule

as at the date of this notice) or such other number being not more than 10% of the Ordinary shares
in issue at the date of the AGM, whether in respect of the sale of shares held as treasury shares,
the issue of newly created shares or the grant of rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into,
shares which, in accordance with the Listing Rules, could only be issued at or above net asset value
per share (unless offered pro rata to existing Shareholders or pursuant to further authorisation by
Shareholders). This authority will expire on the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company unless
previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting, save that the
Company shall be entitled to make offers or agreements before the expiry of such power which
would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors shall be
entitled to allot equity securities pursuant to any such offer or agreement as if the power conferred
hereby had not expired.
SPECIAL BUSINESS - ORDINARY RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST WITHHELD TOTAL VOTES
(excl. votes
withheld)
10 THAT the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases, for
the purposes of Section 315 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended), of Ordinary
shares in the Company on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may from time to
time determine, provided that:
2,345,546
(99.99%)
18
(0.01%)
0 2,345,564
(a) the maximum number of Ordinary shares hereby authorised to be acquired is 5,483,429,
representing not more than 14.99% of the issued Ordinary share capital of the Company as
at the date of this notice;
(b) the minimum price (excluding expenses) payable by the Company for each Ordinary share
is €0.01. The maximum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for any such Ordinary
share is the higher of (i) an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market
quotations for an Ordinary share in the Company as derived from The London Stock
Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on
which such share is contracted to be purchased; and (ii) the amount stipulated by Article
3(2) of the EU Buy-back and Stabilisation Regulation (2016/1052/EU) being the higher of
the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid for an
Ordinary share in the Company on the trading venues where the market purchases by the
Company pursuant to the authority conferred by this resolution will be carried out (provided
that limb (ii) shall not apply where the purchases would not bear the risk of breaching the
prohibition on market abuse);

VOLTA FINANCE LIMITED Annual General Meeting 8 December 2021 – Voting Schedule

(c) the authority hereby conferred shall expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of
the Company unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general
meeting; and
(d) the Company may make a contract to purchase the Ordinary shares under the authority
hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority, which contract will or may be executed
wholly or partly after the expiry of such authority, and may purchase its Ordinary shares in
pursuance of any such contract.
11 THAT, in accordance with Section 160 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended),
the change to the basis of Director's remuneration agreed by the Board in 2017 and applied
subsequently, be ratified. It should be noted that this change in basis did not result in an increase
in remuneration for any individual director.
2,334,052
(99.52%)
11,144
(0.48%)
368 2,345,196
12 THAT, in accordance with Article 20(2) of the Articles, the individual Director's remuneration
specified in such article be amended to 'not exceed €100,000' per annum. Such amendment is
ratified, effective from 1 February 2017.
2,333,952
(99.52%)
11,144
(0.48%)
468 2,345,096
SPECIAL BUSINESS -
SPECIAL
RESOLUTION
FOR AGAINST WITHHELD TOTAL VOTES
(excl. votes
withheld)
13 THAT, in accordance with Section 42 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended),
the draft form of articles of incorporation, available on the Company's website
(https://www.voltafinance.com/investors/other-documents), be approved and adopted as the
new articles of incorporation of the Company (the "New Articles") in substitution for and to the
entire exclusion of the existing articles of incorporation.
2,342,803
(100%)
0
(0%)
2,761 2,342,803

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