Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Apr 15, 2025
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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(REGISTERED IN GUERNSEY WITH REGISTRATION NUMBER 45241) (THE 'COMPANY')
If you are in any doubt about the contents of this document, or the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial adviser who, if you are taking advice in the United Kingdom, is duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your Ordinary Shares in the Company, you should send this document, together with the accompanying proxy form, at once to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for delivery to the purchaser or transferee.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the AGM of the Company is to be held at Trafalgar Court, Admiral Park, Les Banques, St Peter Port, Guernsey, at 10.00 am on 3 June 2025.
Shareholders are encouraged to submit proxy forms in respect of the AGM as detailed in the Notes to the Notice of AGM and to appoint the Chair of the AGM as their proxy to cast a vote on the shareholder's behalf.
In addition, the Investment Adviser's presentation on the 2024 results is available on the Company's website (https://www.internationalpublicpartnerships.com/). If any shareholder has any additional questions on this presentation, the Report and Accounts or the resolutions being put to this year's AGM, please email your queries to [email protected]. We will endeavour to answer every shareholder question and responses will be posted on the Company's website after the AGM.
The ordinary business proposed for the AGM comprises the consideration of and, if thought fit, the passing of ordinary resolutions:
The special business proposed for the AGM comprises the consideration of and, if thought fit, the passing of the following resolutions:
By order of the Board Ocorian Administration (Guernsey) Limited Company Secretary
15 April 2025
PO Box 286 Floor 2, Trafalgar Court Admiral Park Les Banques St Peter Port Guernsey GY1 4LY
Guernsey-registered companies are not obliged to prepare and publish a Directors' Remuneration Report. However, the Company has included details of its Directors' remuneration within the Annual Report and Accounts and an ordinary resolution will be put to shareholders seeking approval of the Directors' remuneration.
In accordance with the AIC Code, the Board have resolved that all Directors shall offer themselves for re-election on an annual basis. Further, when and if any director shall have been in office (or on re-election would at the end of that term of office) for more than nine years the Company will consider further whether there is a risk that such a director might reasonably be deemed to have lost independence through such long service.
The Board is pleased to confirm that the Company is fully compliant with the FCA Listing rules relating to diversity.
Biographical details for each of the Directors standing for re-election and election at the AGM, and details of their individual contributions to the operation of the Board during the year, are contained below:
Mike is the Chair of the Board and the Investment Committee. He is a resident in the UK and has over 40 years of financial and management experience in global infrastructure investment.
He has held a number of senior positions, including as an assistant director of Morgan Grenfell plc, a director of HM Treasury Taskforce, deputy CEO and later CEO of Partnerships UK plc and, later, a managing director of Thames Water Utilities Limited.
Mike has a breadth of experience across a range of economic and social infrastructure sectors and has been involved in some of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
The Board recommends his re-election.
Julia is the current Chair of the Management Engagement Committee. A resident in the UK, Julia has over 25 years' experience of capital markets in the financial sector and held senior positions within Credit Suisse, including Head of One Bank Delivery and Global Head of Sovereign Wealth funds activity.
The Board recommends her re-election.
Stephanie is the current Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Stephanie is a resident of Guernsey and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a non-executive director on several London listed companies.
Prior to becoming a non-executive director, Stephanie led the investment trust capital markets team at PwC for the UK and Channel Islands. During her time at PwC, Stephanie specialised in advising FTSE 250 and premium London listed companies on accounting, corporate governance, risk management and strategic matters.
The Board recommends her re-election.
Sally-Ann is the Chair of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. She is a resident of Guernsey and has over 35 years of experience in infrastructure projects in the energy sector, including international offshore transmission systems and the challenges of the energy transition.
Having held senior positions within the power utility arena, Sally-Ann was a Director of Guernsey Electricity Ltd, and latterly the Chief Operating Officer for over 12 years. She is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Director.
The Board recommends her re-election.
Meriel is the current Chair of the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee. She is a resident of Guernsey, with 28 years of multi-sector business experience.
With a background in human-centred design for technology, Meriel brings a strategic end-user focus and a broad set of experiences encompassing many sectors and scales of organisation ranging from her own start-ups through global corporations and governmental programmes.
The Board recommends her re-election.
Giles joined the Company in September 2024 and brings over 30 years' investment experience to the Board. He is a resident in Jersey and has previously held several senior advisory roles in fixed-income and debt capital markets. Giles has held several non-executive director positions for investment funds in multi asset classes in private and public markets.
Giles holds an MSc in Financial Economics, a BA in Economics and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Charter holder.
The Board recommends his election.
Interim dividends do not require shareholder approval under the Companies Law or the Articles of the Company; however, in line with best practice, the Board wishes to afford the Shareholders the ability to note and sanction the interim dividends paid in respect of the periods six months to 30 June 2024, and the six months to 31 December 2024. As the interim dividends have already been declared and paid, this is an advisory rather than a binding vote.
On the recommendation of the Audit and Risk Committee, the Board proposes the re-appointment of the Company's existing auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP. In addition, PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP have indicated their willingness to continue in office. Accordingly, Resolution 10 proposes the reappointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP as auditor to the Company and resolution 11 authorises the Audit and Risk Committee, on behalf of the Board, to determine their remuneration.
This resolution renews the power, given by the Company's shareholders at the last AGM, for the Board to offer shareholders the right to elect to receive further Ordinary Shares, credited as fully paid, instead of cash in respect of all or any part of any dividend (a scrip dividend). The Board believes that the ability for shareholders to receive future dividends from the Company wholly or partly in the form of new Ordinary Shares in the Company will be advantageous for the Company as it will benefit from the ability to retain cash which would otherwise be paid as dividends. It may also benefit certain shareholders depending on their tax status.
This resolution renews the share buy-back authority that was given by the Company's shareholders at last year's AGM. Resolution 13 gives the Board authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, up to 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital (as at the time immediately following the passing of the resolution) and subject to minimum and maximum purchase prices. This authority will only be invoked if, after taking proper advice, the Directors consider that benefits will accrue to shareholders generally.
This resolution, a standard resolution for investment companies listed under the UK Listing Rules, renews the authority given to the Board at last year's AGM to allot Ordinary Shares for cash without first offering them to existing holders on a pro rata basis. The number of shares allotted must be less than 10 per cent. of the number of Ordinary Shares admitted to trading on London Stock Exchange plc's main market for listed securities immediately following the passing of this resolution.
The Board does not currently intend to allot shares under this power other than to take advantage of opportunities in the market as they arise, and only if they believe it would be advantageous to the Company's shareholders to do so. The Board also confirms that no allotment of new shares will be made unless the lowest market offer price of the shares is at least a premium to the latest published net asset value.
Members are requested to submit their votes in respect of all the resolutions proposed in this Notice of AGM. It is the recommendation of the Board that Members vote in favour of each resolution on the basis that the Board considers their passing to be in the best interests of the members as a whole.
Certain of the Board are also members of the Company, each of whom intends to vote in favour of all resolutions proposed in this Notice of AGM. Their holdings as at the date of this notice are as follows:
| Ordinary Shares of 0.01p each held |
Percentage of total issued share capital |
|
|---|---|---|
| Julia Bond | 132,226 | < 0.01% |
| Sally-Ann David | 30,303 | < 0.01% |
| Giles Frost* | 1,252,246 | < 0.01% |
| Mike Gerrard | 279,789 | < 0.01% |
| Meriel Lenfestey | 33,142 | < 0.01% |
| John Le Poidevin | 414,870 | < 0.01% |
| Stephanie Coxon | 25,505 | < 0.01% |
* Directly and through a wholly-owned company
CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the AGM and any adjournment(s) thereof by using the procedures, and to the address, described in the CREST manual (available via www.euroclear.com) subject to the provisions of the articles of incorporation. CREST personal members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a voting service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a 'CREST Proxy Instruction') must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & International Limited's ('Euroclear') specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST manual. The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy, must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent (ID RA10) by 10.00 am on 30 May 2025. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the CREST applications host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST. After this time any change of instructions to proxies appointed through CREST should be communicated to the appointee through other means.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service provider(s) should note that Euroclear does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular messages. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service provider(s) are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 34(1) of the Uncertificated Securities (Guernsey) Regulations, 2009.
Unless otherwise indicated on the Form of Proxy, CREST or any other electronic voting instruction, the proxy will vote as they think fit or, at their discretion, withhold from voting.
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