Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement • Oct 7, 2019
Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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Please bring this card with you to the Meeting and present it at Shareholder registration/accreditation. Additional Holders:
The Chairman of WPP plc invites you to attend the General Meeting of the Company to be held at Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD on 24 October 2019 at 11.00 am.
Shareholder Reference Number
Please detach this portion before posting this proxy form.

The Circular to Shareholders and Notice of General Meeting are available on the Company's website at www.wpp.com/investors
Kindly Note: This form is issued only to the addressee(s) and is specific to the unique designated account printed hereon. This personalised form is not transferable between different: (i) account holders; or (ii) uniquely designated accounts. The Company and Computershare Investor Services (Jersey) Limited accept no liability for any instruction that does not comply with these conditions.
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Ordinary Resolution For Against THAT:
Vote Withheld
(a) the proposed sale by WPP plc (the Company) and its subsidiaries of 60 per cent. of their Kantar business, and the establishment of, and compliance by the Company and its subsidiaries with the terms and conditions of, the Joint Venture, each as described in the Circular (together, the Transaction), as a Class 1 transaction substantially on the terms and subject to the conditions of the sale agreement dated 12 July 2019 (as amended) between the Company, Summer (BC) UK Bidco Limited and Summer (BC) Topco S.à r.l. (the Sale Agreement) and the shareholders' agreement to be entered into between, among others, certain subsidiaries of the Company and Summer (BC) Topco S.à r.l. (the Shareholders' Agreement), and all other agreements and ancillary documents contemplated by the Sale Agreement and the Shareholders' Agreement, be and are approved for the purposes of Chapter 10 of the Listing Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, with any changes as are permitted in accordance with (b) below; and
(b) the directors of the Company (the Directors) (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) be and are authorised: (i) to do or procure to be done all such acts and things on behalf of the Company and any of its subsidiaries as the Directors (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) consider necessary, expedient or desirable in connection with, and to implement, the Transaction; and (ii) to agree such modifications, variations, revisions, waivers, extensions, additions or amendments (not being modifications, variations, revisions, waivers, extensions, additions or amendments of a material nature) as the Directors (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) may in their absolute discretion deem necessary, expedient or desirable in connection with the Transaction, the Sale Agreement, the Shareholders' Agreement and/or the associated and ancillary agreements.
In the case of a corporation, this form must be given under its common seal or be signed on its behalf by an attorney or officer duly authorised, stating their capacity (e.g. director, secretary).
Please complete this box only if you wish to appoint a third party proxy other than the Chairman. Please leave this box blank if you want to select the Chairman. Do not insert your own name(s).
I/We hereby appoint the Chairman of the Meeting OR the person indicated in the box above as my/our proxy to attend, speak and vote in respect of my/our full voting entitlement* on my/our behalf at the General Meeting of WPP plc to be held at Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD on 24 October 2019 at 11.00 am, and at any adjourned meeting.
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* For the appointment of more than one proxy, please refer to Explanatory Note 2 (see front).
Please mark here to indicate that this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being made.
Please use a black pen. Mark with an X inside the box as shown in this example.
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Vote Withheld
(a) the proposed sale by WPP plc (the Company) and its subsidiaries of 60 per cent. of their Kantar business, and the establishment of, and compliance by the Company and its subsidiaries with the terms and conditions of, the Joint Venture, each as described in the Circular (together, the Transaction), as a Class 1 transaction substantially on the terms and subject to the conditions of the sale agreement dated 12 July 2019 (as amended) between the Company, Summer (BC) UK Bidco Limited and Summer (BC) Topco S.à r.l. (the Sale Agreement) and the shareholders' agreement to be entered into between, among others, certain subsidiaries of the Company and Summer (BC) Topco S.à r.l. (the Shareholders' Agreement), and all other agreements and ancillary documents contemplated by the Sale Agreement and the Shareholders' Agreement, be and are approved for the purposes of Chapter 10 of the Listing Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, with any changes as are permitted in accordance with (b) below; and
(b) the directors of the Company (the Directors) (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) be and are authorised: (i) to do or procure to be done all such acts and things on behalf of the Company and any of its subsidiaries as the Directors (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) consider necessary, expedient or desirable in connection with, and to implement, the Transaction; and (ii) to agree such modifications, variations, revisions, waivers, extensions, additions or amendments (not being modifications, variations, revisions, waivers, extensions, additions or amendments of a material nature) as the Directors (or any duly authorised committee of the Directors) may in their absolute discretion deem necessary, expedient or desirable in connection with the Transaction, the Sale Agreement, the Shareholders' Agreement and/or the associated and ancillary agreements.
I/We instruct my/our proxy as indicated on this form. Unless otherwise instructed the proxy may vote as he or she sees fit or abstain in relation to any business of the meeting.
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In the case of a corporation, this proxy must be given under its common seal or be signed on its behalf by an attorney or officer duly authorised, stating their capacity (e.g. director, secretary).
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