AGM Information • Apr 4, 2019
AGM Information
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If you have sold or otherwise transferred all your ordinary shares in Capita plc, please deliver this document, together with the accompanying documents, as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected.
Notice is hereby given that the 2019 Annual General Meeting of Capita plc (the 'Company') will be held at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8HQ on Tuesday 14 May 2019 at 11.00am to transact the business set out below.
A member may appoint a proxy by following the instructions for the electronic appointment of a proxy at www.capitashares.co.uk. The appointment of a proxy will not prevent members from attending and voting in person should they wish to do so.
Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) will be proposed as ordinary resolutions. For each of these Resolutions to be passed, more than half of the votes cast must be in favour of the Resolution.
Resolutions 15 to 17 (inclusive) will be proposed as special resolutions. For each of these Resolutions to be passed, at least three quarters of the votes cast must be in favour of the Resolution.
may be paid in respect of their directorships with the Company for the period from appointment to 30 June 2020.
as if Section 561 of that Act did not apply to any such allotment, and such authority shall (unless otherwise revoked or renewed) expire at the close of business on 30 June 2020 or, if earlier, on the conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting, save that the Company may make any offer or agreement before such expiry which would or might require shares to be allotted or Allotment Rights to be granted after such expiry and the Directors may allot shares or grant Allotment Rights under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
For the purposes of this Resolution, the nominal amount of any securities shall be taken to be, in the case Allotment Rights, the nominal amount of such shares which may be allotted pursuant to such rights.
For the purposes of this Resolution, 'pre-emptive offer' means an offer of equity securities that is open for acceptance for a period determined by the Directors to the holders of ordinary shares in the Company (other than the Company) on the register on any fixed record date in proportion to their holdings of ordinary shares (and, if applicable, to the holders of any other class of equity security in accordance with the rights attached to such class), subject in each case to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or appropriate in relation to fractions of such securities, the use of more than one currency for making payments in respect of such offer, any such shares or other securities being represented by depositary receipts, treasury shares, any legal or practical problems in relation to any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or any stock exchange.
Registered Office: 30 Berners Street London W1T 3LR Registered in England No: 2081330
By Order of the Board
Francesca Todd Group Company Secretary Dated: 4 April 2019
(5) Any person to whom this notice is sent who is currently nominated by a member of the Company to enjoy information rights under section 146 of the Companies Act 2006 (a 'nominated person') may have a right under an agreement between him/her and that member to be appointed, or to have someone else appointed, as a proxy for the meeting. If a nominated person has no such right or does not wish to exercise it, he/she may have a right under such an agreement to give instructions to the member concerned as to the exercise of voting rights. The statement in note 1 above of the rights of a member in relation to the appointment of proxies does not apply to a nominated person. Such rights can only be exercised by the member concerned.
(6) As at 28 March 2019 (the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this document) (i) the Company's issued share capital consisted of 1,668,415,192 ordinary shares, carrying one vote each, excluding 2,858,331 shares held in Treasury and (ii) the total voting rights in the Company were 1,668,415,192.
(15) In accordance with the Company's established practice, all Resolutions will be voted on by a poll and not by a show of hands so as to record accurately the decision of all members based on their shareholding interests in the Company. Members and proxies will be asked to complete a poll card to indicate how they wish to cast their votes. These cards will be collected at the end of the meeting. The results of the poll will be published on the Company's website and notified to the UK Listing Authority once the votes have been counted and verified.
(16) Copies of the service contracts of the Executive Directors, the Non-Executive Directors' letters of appointment and the Employee Directors' Remuneration Memorandum are available for inspection at the Company's registered office during normal business hours and at the place of the meeting from at least 15 minutes prior to the meeting until the end of the meeting. The Employee Directors' Remuneration Memorandum is also available on the Company's website.
For each financial year, the Directors are required to present the Directors' reports, the audited financial statements and the Auditor's report to shareholders at a general meeting. The financial statements and reports laid before the 2019 AGM are for the financial year ending 31 December 2018 and the Company proposes a resolution on their adoption.
In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, shareholders are invited to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 December 2018.
The Directors' Remuneration Report is set out on pages 80 to 98 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2018. For the purposes of this resolution, the Directors' Remuneration Report does not include the Directors' Remuneration Policy which is set out on pages 84 to 88. The vote on this resolution is advisory only and the Directors' entitlement to remuneration is not conditional on its being passed.
Resolutions 3 to 10 relate to the retirement and election or re-election of the Directors. The Company's articles of association require a Director who was appointed as such by the Board during the year to retire at the annual general meeting next following his or her appointment. Patrick Butcher was appointed as a Director since the date of the Company's last annual general meeting. Consequently, he will retire from office at the AGM and intends to stand for election by shareholders for the first time.
The Company's articles of association also require any Director who has not been elected or re-elected by the Company's shareholders at either of the two previous annual general meetings to retire. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Company's articles of association, and in line with Provision 18 of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2018, each of the remaining Directors shall retire from office at the AGM and stand for re-election by the shareholders.
Biographical details of all of the Directors seeking election or re-election can be found at Appendix 1 to this Notice. All were subject to appraisal by the other Board members prior to being put forward for election or re-election (as applicable) by shareholders. The Board has concluded that all of the Directors continue to be effective, showing commitment to their roles, and making the necessary time available for Board and Committee meetings and other duties as required. The biographical details in Appendix 1 set out the skills and experience each Director brings to the Board for the longterm sustainable success of the Company.
Resolution 11 relates to the remuneration of two Employee Directors. The intention to appoint two employees to Capita's Board of Directors (as "Employee Directors") was announced publicly during 2018. A rigorous selection process, including external independent review, was followed in order to identify two suitable candidates.
Resolution 13 authorises the remuneration of the Employee Directors once they have been appointed. The Company's current remuneration policy does not cater for Employee Directors, who, from a remuneration perspective, are neither Executive Directors nor Non-Executive Directors of the Company.
The Company intends to expand its directors' remuneration policy to deal expressly with pay to Employee Directors when its policy is next presented to shareholders for approval at its 2020 annual general meeting. As an interim measure, the Company is seeking express shareholder approval for the payments it is proposed will be made to the Employee Directors, pursuant to section 226B(1)(b) of the Companies Act 2006.
The Company is seeking authority to make payments to each of the Employee Directors, between the date of their appointment and 30 June 2020, calculated as follows:
For the avoidance of doubt, each Employee Director may additionally receive any and all remuneration payable to them in the ordinary course in connection with their employment with the group. Further detail is set out in the Employee Directors' Remuneration Memorandum, which is available on the Company's website.
Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on each Employee Director's appointment at the 2020 Annual General Meeting.
The Company is required to appoint an Auditor to serve for each financial year of the Company. The appointment must be made before the end of the general meeting before which accounts are laid. Following a competitive tender process during 2018 for the Company's external audit, the Audit and Risk Committee recommended the re-appointment of KPMG LLP. Further details are set out on page 77 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2018. The recommendation was free from any third party influence and no restrictive contractual clauses of the kind mentioned in Article 16(6) of EU Audit Regulation 537/2014 has been imposed on the Company.
KPMG LLP have indicated that they are willing to continue as the Company's Auditor for another year and Resolution 12 is, therefore, to appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor for the financial year ending 31 December 2019. As a separate resolution, Resolution 13 authorises the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the Auditor's remuneration.
The Directors are currently authorised to allot shares in the Company or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any securities into shares, but their authorisation ends on the date of the Annual General Meeting. This resolution seeks to renew the Directors' allotment authority.
If passed, this resolution will give the Directors the authority to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert any securities into shares up to an aggregate nominal value equal to £11,493,527. This represents approximately 33% of the total ordinary share capital in issue (excluding treasury shares) as at 28 March 2019 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this document).
The renewed authority will remain in force until 30 June 2020 or, if earlier, the conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting. As at 28 March 2019, the Company held 2,858,331 treasury shares, being approximately 0.17% of the total ordinary share capital in issue (exclusive of treasury shares).
The Directors have no present intention of exercising this authority. However, by granting this authority, the Directors will have the flexibility to take advantage of any appropriate opportunities that may arise.
Resolution 15 is a special resolution which, if passed by shareholders, will enable the Directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company, or to sell any shares out of treasury, for cash, without first offering those shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings.
The Pre-Emption Group's Statement of Principles supports the annual disapplication of pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of shares and other equity securities and sales of treasury shares for cash representing no more than 5 per cent. of issued ordinary share capital (exclusive of treasury shares), without restriction as to the use of proceeds of those allotments.
Accordingly, the purpose of Resolution 15 is to authorise the Directors to allot new shares (and other equity securities) pursuant to the allotment authority given by Resolution 14, for cash up to a nominal amount of £1,724,029 without the shares first being offered to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings. This amount represents approximately 5% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) as at 28 March 2019 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this document).
The Directors confirm their intention to follow the provisions of the Pre-Emption Group's Statement of Principles and not to allot shares or other equity securities or sell treasury shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis pursuant to the authority in Resolution 15 in excess of an amount equal to 7.5 per cent. of the total issued ordinary share capital of the Company, excluding treasury shares, within a rolling three-year period, other than:
The authority sought under Resolution 15 will remain in force until 30 June 2020 or, if earlier, the conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting.
The Companies Act 2006 requires the notice period for general meetings of the Company to be at least 21 days. The Company, however, currently has the power to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on at least 14 clear days' notice and would like to preserve this ability. In order to be able to do so, shareholders must approve the calling of meetings on at least 14 clear days' notice. Resolution 16, which will be proposed as a special resolution, seeks such approval. The approval will be effective until the Company's next Annual General Meeting, when it is intended that a similar resolution will be proposed.
The shorter notice period would not be used as a matter of routine for general meetings, but only where the flexibility is merited by the business of the meeting and is thought to be to the advantage of shareholders as a whole.
Resolution 17, which will be proposed as a special resolution, is to renew the authority granted to the Directors at last year's Annual General Meeting, which expires on the date of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting, and to give the Company authority to buy back its own ordinary shares in the market as permitted by the Companies Act 2006.
The authority limits the number of ordinary shares that could be purchased to a maximum of 166,841,519 shares, which represents approximately 10% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company (excluding treasury shares) as at 28 March 2019 (being the latest practicable date prior to publication of this document). The authority also sets minimum and maximum prices at which shares may be bought. The renewed authority will, if passed, remain in force until 30 June 2020 or, if earlier, the conclusion of the Company's next Annual General Meeting.
The total number of options to subscribe for ordinary shares for all executive and employee share schemes of the Company which were outstanding as at 28 March 2019 was 41,654,191 which represents 2.50% of the issued share capital of the Company (excluding treasury shares), and would represent 2.77% of the issued share capital of the Company (excluding treasury shares) if the full authority to repurchase ordinary shares, as proposed by Resolution 17, were exercised. As at 28 March 2019, the Company held 2,858,331 treasury shares, being approximately 0.17% of the total ordinary share capital in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Any ordinary shares purchased under this authority would be by means of market purchases through the London Stock Exchange. Shares so purchased would be held as treasury shares or cancelled and the number of ordinary shares in issue reduced accordingly. The Directors have no present intention of exercising the authority to purchase the Company's ordinary shares but will keep the matter under review, taking into account other investment opportunities. The authority to repurchase ordinary shares will, if approved by shareholders, only be exercised after careful consideration by the Directors, and if such an exercise would result in an increase in earnings per share and would be in the best interests of shareholders generally.
The Board considers that the passing of all the resolutions set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting is likely to promote the success of the Company and would be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. The Directors recommend unanimously that you vote in favour of the resolutions, as they intend to do in respect of their own beneficial holdings (save in respect of those resolutions in which they are interested).
Chairman
Appointed to Board: September 2016
Independent at appointment: Yes
Key skills and experience: Sir Ian was appointed Non- Executive Director in September 2016 and Chairman in January 2017. He is a chartered accountant and, before retiring in June 2016, was Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC UK for eight years, responsible for leadership and management of PwC UK. He joined PwC in 1977, serving in various roles of increasing responsibility, including Head of Advisory, before being elected Chairman and Senior Partner.
Other current appointments: Chairman of Police Now; trustee of The Old Vic, and of Wellbeing of Women; member of the Development Committee at The National Gallery; board member at London First.
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed: December 2017
Key skills and experience: Before joining Capita, Jon was Chief Executive Officer of Amec Foster Wheeler, the multinational consultancy, engineering and project management business. Prior to that, he had a 20-year career at Halliburton Company Inc in the United States, one of the world's largest oil field service companies, where he held a number of senior roles, including Senior Vice-President and member of the Halliburton Executive Committee. Jon has a doctorate in geology from the University of Reading, ran a contract research organisation at Heriot-Watt University, and attended the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Board responsibilities: Managing and developing Capita's business to achieve the Company's strategic objectives.
External appointments: Board member of Equinor
Chief Financial Officer
Appointed: January 2019
Key skills and experience: Before joining Capita, Patrick was Group Chief Financial Officer at Go-Ahead Group. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (South Africa) and has more than 17 years' experience as a finance director at board level in transport and infrastructure companies. He was formerly Group Finance Director of Network Rail, as well as holding finance director roles at English, Welsh and Scottish Railways (now DB Schenker), and London Underground. Patrick has extensive experience from working as a management consultant and auditor for Deloitte LLP. He is a former member of the British Transport Police Authority.
Board responsibilities: Overall control and responsibility for all financial aspects of the business's strategy.
Additional responsibilities: Property; Procurement; Commercial relationships and Supplier relationships.
External appointments: None.
Senior Independent Director
Appointed: September 2012
Independent: Yes
Key skills and experience: Gillian was appointed to the Board in September 2012, before being made Senior Independent Director in January 2013. She is a senior adviser in Credit Suisse UK's investment banking division where she has gained substantial experience of advising boards across a wide range of complex situations and transactions. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Gillian worked for seven years at NM Rothschild & Sons.
Other current appointments: Senior adviser at Credit Suisse; trustee of BBC Children in Need; member of Corporate Advisory Board of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Matthew Lester Non-Executive Director
Appointed: March 2017
Key skills and experience: Matthew is a chartered accountant with over 20 years' experience in senior finance roles. He was Group Chief Financial Officer of Royal Mail plc from November 2010 to July 2017. Matthew has also served as Group Chief Financial Officer for ICAP plc from May 2006 to November 2010. Before this, he held senior roles at Diageo plc and Kleinwort Benson.
Other current appointments: Non-executive director of Man Group plc and Barclays plc.
Non-Executive Director
Appointed: November 2015
Key skills and experience: John is Chief Executive Officer of Bibby Line Group Limited. He has substantial experience leading, growing and advising media and broadcast organisations at CEO and executive director levels, having worked in the technology, media and telecommunications sector for 25 years. John is a chartered accountant and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Most recently, he served for four-anda-half years as CEO of Arqiva. Before that, he held a number of executive director roles on the board of ITV plc, and was formerly a director of Liverpool Football and Athletic Grounds plc and of Ambassador Theatre Group.
Other current appointments: Chief Executive Officer of Bibby Line Group Limited.
Non-Executive Director
Appointed: January 2015
Key skills and experience: Andrew has been Chief Executive of Halma plc, a leading specialist in safety, health and environmental technologies since 2005. He started his career at Halma in 1994 as manufacturing director of a subsidiary company and went on to hold a wide range of senior management positions across the group. Andrew is a chartered engineer and a production engineering graduate of Birmingham University. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, in 2004.
Other current appointments: Chief Executive of Halma plc.
Non-Executive Director
Appointed: December 2017
Independent: Yes
Key skills and experience: Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013, and served between 2014 and 2017 as a Government minister in the Business and Culture departments, and as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury. She has a senior background in international retail, governance, legal and regulatory issues, and communications. She worked at Tesco plc from 1997 to 2013, serving on the board from 2006. Before joining Tesco, Lucy was a civil servant, serving in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at Number 10 between 1992 and 1994, and finally as Director of the Deregulation Unit. Her non-executive directorships have included ITV plc and Metro AG.
Other current appointments: Chairman of Assured Food Standards; non-executive director of Secure Trust Bank plc, Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, and Health Data Research UK; and governor of London Business School.
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