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RNS
From:
Troy Income & Growth Trust plc
LEI:
213800HLNMQ1R6VBLU75
Date:
27 March 2024
TROY INCOME & GROWTH
TRUST PLC
Result of Second General
Meeting and Scheme Entitlements
In connection with the proposals for
a combination of the assets of Troy Income & Growth Trust plc
(the "Company") with STS Global Income & Growth Trust plc
("STS") by means of a scheme of reconstruction and members'
voluntary liquidation of the Company under section 110 of the
Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme"), the Board is pleased to
announce the result of the Second General Meeting and Shareholders'
entitlements under the Scheme.
Defined terms used in this
announcement have the meanings given in the Company's circular to
Shareholders dated 23 February 2024 (the "Circular") unless the
context otherwise requires.
The Circular is available for
viewing on the Company's website at
https://www.tigt.co.uk and the National Storage Mechanism at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Result of Second General Meeting
The Company announces that the
special resolution to place the Company into members' voluntary
liquidation was voted on and approved by Shareholders at the Second
General Meeting held earlier today. Accordingly, Derek Hyslop and
Richard Barker (together the "Liquidators"), both of Ernst &
Young LLP of 1 More London Place, London, SE1 2AF have been
appointed as joint liquidators of the Company. Details of the
number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the
resolution, which was held on a poll, is set out below and will
also be published on the Company's website
https://www.tigt.co.uk.
Resolution
|
Votes for (including
discretionary)
|
%
|
Votes
against
|
%
|
Total votes
cast
|
Votes cast (excl votes
withheld) %1
|
Votes
withheld
|
To appoint the Liquidators, place
the Company into members' voluntary liquidation in accordance with
the Scheme and grant the Liquidators certain powers.
|
62,879,604
|
99.28
|
457,482
|
0.72
|
63,337,086
|
27.24
|
171,599
|
1 As a percentage of total voting rights
For the purposes of section 341 of
the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the
table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as
at 6.30 p.m. on 25 March 2024 (232,475,487), being the time at
which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members
in order to vote at the Second General Meeting. A vote
"withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote
"for" or "against" a resolution.
The number of Ordinary Shares in
issue at the date of this announcement is 347,511,987. There are
115,036,500 Ordinary Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the
date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the
Company is 232,475,487.
The full text of the special
resolution can be found in the notice of Second General Meeting
contained in the Circular.
Suspension and Cancellation of Reclassified
Shares
The Company's Reclassified Shares
were suspended from listing on the Official List of the Financial
Conduct Authority and from trading on the London Stock Exchange at
7.30 a.m. this morning, 27 March 2024, in anticipation of the
Second General Meeting.
The Company, through its advisers,
has notified the Financial Conduct Authority and the London Stock
Exchange of the Company's intention to cancel the Company's
admission of the Reclassified Shares to listing and trading at 8:00
a.m. on 3 April 2024.
Scheme Entitlements
As at the Calculation Date the
entitlements calculated in accordance with the terms of the Scheme
were as follows:
·
TIGT FAV per Share: 71.868923 pence
·
Cash NAV per Share: 70.576716 pence
·
STS FAV per Share: 222.637614 pence
Therefore, Shareholders will receive
the following cash and/or number of New STS Shares.
For Shareholders that are deemed to
have elected to receive New STS Shares:
·
each Reclassified Share with "A" rights attached
to it will receive 0.322806 New STS Shares.
Fractional entitlements to New STS
Shares will not be issued under the Scheme and entitlements will be
rounded down to the nearest whole number. No cash payment will be
made or returned in respect of any fractional entitlements, which
will be retained for the benefit of STS.
For Shareholders that elected, or
are deemed to have elected, for the Cash Option:
·
each Reclassified Share with "B" rights attached
to it will receive 70.576716 pence in cash.
As noted in the Circular, the
Directors have set aside sufficient assets in the Liquidation Pool
to meet all estimated liabilities and contingencies, including the
costs of the winding up of the Company and the costs of
implementing the Scheme. The Directors have also provided in the
Liquidation Pool for a Liquidators' Retention of £100,000 which
they, together with the Liquidators, consider sufficient to meet
any unknown or unascertained liabilities of the Company.
The Liquidation Pool will be applied
by the Liquidators in discharging all current and future actual and
contingent liabilities of the Company. Any balance remaining after
discharging such liabilities from the Liquidation Pool will in due
course be distributed to Shareholders pro rata to their respective holdings
of Ordinary Shares in accordance with the terms of the
Scheme.
In accordance with the Circular,
Shareholders who were deemed to have elected for the Rollover
Option that held their Ordinary Shares in uncertificated form at
the Record Date will receive their New STS Shares via CREST on 28
March 2024 (or as soon as practicable thereafter). Shareholders who
were deemed to have elected for the Rollover Option that held their
Ordinary Shares in certificated form at the Record Date will
receive their New STS Shares in certificated form, and such share
certificates will be despatched by no later than 12 April 2024.
Shareholders who elected, or were deemed to have elected, for the
Cash Option will have their Cash Entitlements despatched by no
later than 12 April 2024 via CREST and/or cheque.
Following the appointment of the
Liquidators, all further enquiries regarding the Company should be
made to the Liquidators, whose contact details are
below.
For further information please
contact:
Liquidators
+44 (0) 131 240 2597
Derek Hyslop
Richard Barker
General
The content of the Company's
web-pages and the content of any website or pages which may be
accessed through hyperlinks on the Company's web-pages, other than
the content of the Circular referred to above, is neither
incorporated into nor forms part of the above
announcement.