Results of Annual General Meeting held on 23 May 2024
23 May 2024
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at the British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JZ all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | For 1 | Against | Votes Withheld 2 | |||
No. of shares1 | % | No. of shares | % | |||
Resolution 1 | ||||||
Receipt of financial | ||||||
statements for the year ended | 3,696,005,287 | 99.70% | 11,153,791 | 0.30% | 20,128,381 | |
31 December 2023 | ||||||
Resolution 2 | ||||||
Declaration of a final dividend | ||||||
of 14.63 pence per ordinary | 3,668,711,747 | 98.47% | 57,144,401 | 1.53% | 1,433,830 | |
share | ||||||
Resolution 3 | ||||||
Election of António Simões as | 3,723,957,437 | 99.95% | 1,719,406 | 0.05% | 1,595,949 | |
a Director | ||||||
Resolution 4 | ||||||
Re-election of Henrietta | 3,688,077,716 | 98.99% | 37,671,378 | 1.01% | 1,525,698 | |
Baldock as a Director | ||||||
Resolution 5 | ||||||
Re-election of Nilufer von | 3,688,748,003 | 99.01% | 37,000,869 | 0.99% | 1,535,919 | |
Bismarck as a Director | ||||||
Resolution 6 | ||||||
Re-election of Philip Broadley | 3,657,993,280 | 98.18% | 67,742,700 | 1.82% | 1,548,811 | |
as a Director | ||||||
Resolution 7 | ||||||
Re-election of Jeff Davies as | 3,717,218,027 | 99.78% | 8,261,963 | 0.22% | 1,804,801 | |
a Director | ||||||
Resolution 8 | ||||||
Re-election of Carolyn | 3,689,446,483 | 99.03% | 36,302,731 | 0.97% | 1,533,577 | |
Johnson as a Director | ||||||
Resolution 9 | ||||||
Re-election of Sir John | 3,685,774,664 | 99.74% | 9,579,118 | 0.26% | 31,931,009 | |
Kingman as a Director | ||||||
Resolution 10 | ||||||
Re-election of Lesley Knox as | 3,686,226,854 | 98.94% | 39,475,579 | 1.06% | 1,582,358 | |
a Director | ||||||
Resolution 11 | ||||||
Re-election of George Lewis | 3,688,066,079 | 98.99% | 37,677,577 | 1.01% | 1,543,655 | |
as a Director |
Resolution 12 | |||||
Re-election of Ric Lewis as a | 3,688,066,865 | 99.00% | 37,133,056 | 1.00% | 2,078,019 |
Director | |||||
Resolution 13 | |||||
Re-election of Tushar | 3,686,160,524 | 98.94% | 39,516,629 | 1.06% | 1,607,638 |
Morzaria as a Director | |||||
Resolution 14 | |||||
Re-election of Laura Wade- | 3,680,878,378 | 98.88% | 41,741,901 | 1.12% | 4,664,512 |
Gery as a Director | |||||
Resolution 15 | |||||
Re-appointment of KPMG | 3,657,672,505 | 98.18% | 67,978,747 | 1.82% | 1,625,040 |
LLP as auditors | |||||
Resolution 16 | |||||
To authorise the Audit | |||||
Committee, on behalf of the | |||||
Board, to determine the | 3,716,761,096 | 99.76% | 9,106,868 | 0.24% | 1,419,495 |
Auditors' remuneration | |||||
Resolution 17 | |||||
Approval of Remuneration | 3,594,955,335 | 96.51% | 130,133,675 | 3.49% | 2,197,448 |
Report | |||||
Resolution 18 | |||||
Approval of the Performance | 3,599,184,386 | 96.62% | 125,922,881 | 3.38% | 2,180,044 |
Share Plan 2024 | |||||
Resolution 19 | |||||
Authority to allot equity | 3,651,429,505 | 98.02% | 73,918,690 | 1.98% | 1,936,596 |
shares | |||||
Resolution 20 | |||||
Authority to allot shares in | |||||
respect of Contingent | 3,656,775,486 | 98.16% | 68,588,620 | 1.84% | 1,920,685 |
Convertible Securities (CCS) | |||||
Resolution 21 | |||||
Authority to make political | 3,615,238,259 | 97.93% | 76,384,770 | 2.07% | 35,514,089 |
donations | |||||
Resolution 22* | |||||
Disapplication of pre-emption | 3,686,577,732 | 98.97% | 38,528,249 | 1.03% | 2,040,137 |
rights | |||||
Resolution 23* | |||||
Additional authority to | 3,654,923,251 | 98.12% | 70,213,791 | 1.88% | 2,008,077 |
disapply pre-emption rights | |||||
Resolution 24* | |||||
Additional authority to | |||||
disapply pre-emption rights in | 3,658,655,314 | 98.22% | 66,464,209 | 1.78% | 2,026,595 |
connection with CCS | |||||
Resolution 25* | |||||
Authority to purchase own | 3,655,682,620 | 98.24% | 65,403,548 | 1.76% | 6,059,151 |
shares | |||||
Resolution 26* | |||||
Authority to call general | |||||
meetings (other than an | |||||
AGM) on not less than 14 | 3,457,610,470 | 92.81% | 267,986,926 | 7.19% | 1,547,922 |
clear days' notice |
Notes:
- The 'for' votes include those giving the Chair discretion.
- A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
- Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
- Voting was conducted by poll.
- The total number of votes cast was 3,725,867,964 representing 62.31% of voting capital as at 22 May 2024. At the close of business on 22 May 2024, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,979,769,298 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
- Denotes a Special Resolution.
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