JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK
LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST
PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:
213800GS89AL1DK3IN50
19 June 2024
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST
PLC
General Meeting of the
Company
held at 11.00 am on Wednesday
19 June 2024
Henderson European Focus Trust plc
(the 'Company') announces that at the General Meeting held earlier
today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This
included:
As ordinary resolutions:
§ Resolution
1: To authorise the directors to allot new ordinary shares
up to an aggregate nominal value of £12,500,000
(representing approximately 117% of the issued share capital of the
Company (excluding treasury shares) as at 20 May 2024) in
connection with, and conditional on, the scheme of reconstruction
and members' voluntary winding-up of Henderson EuroTrust plc (the
'Scheme') becoming effective; and
§ Resolution
2: To adopt the proposed investment objective and policy set out in
the Company's circular to shareholders dated 20 May 2024 (the
'Circular'), conditional on the Scheme becoming
effective.
As a special resolution:
§ Resolution
3: To authorise the directors to make market purchases of the
Company's shares pursuant to the tender offer described, and on the
terms set out, in the Circular (the 'Tender Offer').
The Tender Offer and the Scheme
remain conditional upon, amongst other things, the passing of the
HNE Resolutions to approve the Scheme and the winding-up of HNE at
the HNE General Meetings, and the Company expects to make further
announcements in due course.
The full text of the resolutions can
be found in the Circular, which can be viewed on the Company's
website at: www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com.
Terms used and not defined in this announcement shall have the
meanings given to them in the Circular.
The poll results were as
follows:
|
Resolution
|
Number of votes
FOR
|
% of votes
FOR
|
Number of votes
AGAINST
|
% of votes
AGAINST
|
Total votes
cast
|
% Issued Share
Capital
|
Votes
withheld
|
|
Ordinary
|
|
|
1.
|
To allot new ordinary shares in
connection with the Scheme
|
103,020,588
|
99.85%
|
151,786
|
0.15%
|
103,172,374
|
48.49
|
89,648
|
|
2.
|
To adopt the proposed investment
objective and policy set out in the Circular
|
103,022,178
|
99.85%
|
152,098
|
0.15%
|
103,174,276
|
48.49
|
87,746
|
|
Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.
|
To make market purchases of shares
pursuant to the Tender Offer
|
102,845,636
|
99.68%
|
331,967
|
0.32%
|
103,177,603
|
48.49
|
84,419
|
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 17 June 2024 (212,768,122), 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.
The number of ordinary shares in
issue at the date of this announcement is 216,389,910. On a poll
the voting rights are one vote for every one share held. The
number of voting rights is 212,768,122 (3,621,788 shares being held
in treasury).
The poll results will shortly be
available on the Company's website
at: www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com.
The resolutions will be submitted to
the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be
available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please
contact:
|
Neil Morgan
Winterflood Securities
Limited
Corporate Broker
Tel: 020 3100 0000
|
Harriet Hall
Investment Trust PR
Director
Janus Henderson Investors
Tel: 020 7818 2919
|
|
Vicky Hastings
Chair of the Board
Henderson European Focus Trust
plc
Tel: 020 7818 2220
|