JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK
LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:
213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12
20 June 2024
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
Results of First General
Meeting
In connection with the proposals for
the merger of interests of Henderson
EuroTrust plc (the "Company") with Henderson European Focus
Trust plc ("HEFT") to
form Henderson European Trust plc (the "Combined Trust") by means of a scheme
of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110
of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme") and the issue of New HEFT
Shares to Shareholders who are deemed to have elected to roll over
their investment into the Combined Trust, the Board is pleased to
announce that the Resolutions which were put forward at the First
General Meeting held today and voted on a poll have been approved
by Shareholders.
The poll results were as
follows:
|
Resolution
|
Votes
for
|
%
|
Votes
against
|
%
|
Total votes
cast
|
%
Issued Share Capital
|
Votes
withheld
|
|
1. To approve the reclassification
of the shares in the capital of the Company as shares with "A"
rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes required
to the Company's articles of association.
|
123,026,968
|
99.90
|
126,895
|
0.10
|
123,153,863
|
58.13
|
76,201
|
|
2. To approve the Scheme;
further amend the Company's articles of association in order to
implement the Scheme; and to instruct the Liquidators to give
effect to the Scheme.
|
123,026,968
|
99.90
|
126,895
|
0.10
|
123,153,863
|
58.13
|
76,201
|
These results will also be published
on the Company's website: www.hendersoneurotrust.com.
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 18 June 2024 (211,855,410), being the time at which
a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in
order to vote at the First 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 Shares in issue at the
date of this announcement is 211,855,410. There are no Shares held
in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the
number of voting rights in the Company are 211,855,410.
The full text of the Resolutions can
be found in the notice of First General Meeting contained in the
Company's circular to Shareholders dated 20 May 2024 (the
"Circular"). The Circular
is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which
can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
and on the Company's website at
www.hendersoneurotrust.com.
The Shares will be disabled for
settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 27 June 2024 and trading will
be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 28 June 2024. Following the
reclassification of the Shares on 3 July 2024, the Reclassified
Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 4 July
2024.
Defined terms used in this
announcement have the meanings given in the Circular unless the
context otherwise requires.
For further information please
contact:
|
Henderson EuroTrust plc
Nicola Ralston
Chairman
|
Contact
via Company Secretary
020 7818
4082
|
|
Janus Henderson Investors, Manager
Dan Howe
Head of Investment Trusts
|
020 7818
4458
|
|
Oliver Packard
Head of Investment Trust
Sales
|
0207 818
2690
|
|
Harriet Hall
PR Director, Investment
Trusts
|
020 7818
2919
|
|
Deutsche Numis, Corporate Broker
Nathan Brown
Matt Goss
|
020 7260
1426
020 7260
1642
|
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents
of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website
(or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this
announcement.