Legal
Entity Identifier:
549300YM9USHRKIET173
16 January 2025
Invesco
Asia Trust plc
HEADLINE:
General
Meeting Results
In
connection with the proposals for a combination of the assets of
Asia Dragon Trust plc ("DGN") with the Company, the Board is
pleased to announce that at the General Meeting of the Company held
on 16 January 2025, all resolutions
were decided on a poll and were passed. The resolutions and results
of the poll are set out below.
The
proposals remain conditional upon, amongst other things, the
passing of resolutions to be proposed at general meetings of DGN to
be held on 4 February 2025 and
13 February 2025.
Ordinary
Resolutions
1. To
authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares in connection with
the Issue.
2. To
authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares up to such number
representing 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the Company's
issued share capital following the Issue.
Special
Resolutions
3.
To disapply
pre-emption rights on the allotment or sale of ordinary shares from
treasury up to such number representing 10% of the aggregate
nominal amount of the Company's issued share capital following the
Issue.
4. To
amend the Articles of Association of the Company.
5. To
authorise the Company to make market purchases of its ordinary
shares up to such number representing 14.99% of the aggregate
issued share capital of the Company following the Issue.
|
Resolution
|
Votes For
(including votes at the discretion of the Chairman)
|
%
|
Votes
Against
|
%
|
Votes
Withheld
|
Total Votes
Cast
|
Issued
Share
Capital Voted %
|
|
Ordinary
Resolutions
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
40,023,012
|
99.93
|
26,976
|
0.07
|
29,650
|
40,049,988
|
61.91
|
|
2
|
39,996,922
|
99.88
|
48,993
|
0.12
|
33,723
|
40,045,915
|
61.90
|
|
Special
Resolutions
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
39,971,697
|
99.84
|
62,754
|
0.16
|
45,187
|
40,034,451
|
61.89
|
|
4
|
32,124,630
|
80.25
|
7,907,696
|
19.75
|
47,312
|
40,032,326
|
61.88
|
|
5
|
39,018,019
|
97.40
|
1,039,810
|
2.60
|
21,809
|
40,057,829
|
61.92
|
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 the close of business on
14 January 2025 (64,691,287), being
the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the
register of members in order to vote at the General
Meeting.
A vote
"withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote
"for" or "against" a resolution. On a poll the voting rights are
one vote for every one share held.
The poll
votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the
Company's website at: www.invesco.co.uk/invescoasia
In accordance with UK
Listing Rule 6.4.2R, copies of the resolutions that were passed at
the General Meeting, will
shortly be available for inspection via the National Storage
Mechanism:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Enquiries
|
Invesco
Asia Trust plc
Neil Rogan,
Chairman
|
|
Via Invesco
Asset Management Limited
|
|
Invesco
Fund Managers Limited
(Manager,
Invesco Asia)
Will
Ellis/John Armstrong-Denby
|
|
020 7543
3500
|
|
Invesco
Asset Management Limited
(Company
Secretary, Invesco Asia)
Naomi
Rogers/James Poole
|
|
020 7543
3591/020 7543 3559
|
|
Investec
Bank plc (Financial Adviser, Sponsor and Corporate Broker to
Invesco Asia)
David
Yovichic/Denis Flanagan
|
|
020 7597
4000
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