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Empiric Student Property PLC
23 May 2022
23 May 2022
Empiric Student Property plc
("Empiric" or the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries,
the "Group")
RESULT OF AGM
The Board of Empiric Student Property plc (ticker: ESP) (the
"Board"), the owner and operator of premium student accommodation
serving key UK universities, announces that all resolutions
proposed at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 23 May
2022 were voted on and duly passed by a poll by the Company's
shareholders and the results of the poll, including proxy votes
received, are set out below.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the
resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted
to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for
inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Resolutions 1 to 11 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary
resolutions and resolutions 12 and 15 (inclusive) were proposed as
special resolutions.
As at the date of the meeting, there were 603,203,070 ordinary
shares with voting rights in issue. The Company does not hold any
shares in Treasury.
RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST WITHHELD
VOTES*
VOTES % OF VOTES % OF
VOTES VOTES
CAST* CAST*
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1. To receive the Company's
Annual Report and Accounts
for the financial period
ended 31 December 2021 405,130,400 100.00% 17,296 0.00% 7,189,295
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2. To approve the Directors'
Remuneration Report 376,664,246 98.10% 7,293,186 1.90% 28,379,559
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3. To re-appoint BDO LLP
as Auditors of the Company 405,439,658 99.98% 80,940 0.02% 6,816,393
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4. To authorise the Directors
to determine the remuneration
of the Auditors 412,246,153 99.99% 32,268 0.01% 58,570
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5. To authorise the Directors
to declare and pay all
dividends as interim dividends 412,285,883 100.00% 18,307 0.00% 32,801
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6. To elect Martin Ratchford
as a Director of the Company 407,799,905 98.90% 4,527,405 1.10% 9,681
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7. To re-elect Mark Pain
as a Director of the Company 377,633,660 94.48% 22,064,340 5.52% 12,638,991
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8. To re-elect Alice Avis
as a Director of the Company 404,485,199 98.10% 7,828,104 1.90% 23,688
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9. To re-elect Lynne Fennah
as a Director of the Company 398,507,963 96.65% 13,819,932 3.35% 9,096
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10. To re-elect Duncan
Garrood as a Director
of the Company 406,100,563 98.49% 6,227,332 1.51% 9,096
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11. To authorise the Directors
to allot shares under
(section 551 of the Companies
Act 2006) 402,524,697 97.63% 9,781,545 2.37% 30,749
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12. Special Resolution
- subject to the passing
of Resolution 11, the
Directors shall have the
power to allot equity
securities (pursuant to
sections 570 and 573 of
the Companies Act 2006)
for cash 412,082,841 99.95% 216,617 0.05% 37,533
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13. Special Resolution
- subject to the passing
of Resolution 11, the
Directors shall have the
power to allot equity
securities (pursuant to
sections 570 and 573 of
the Companies Act 2006)
for cash for the purpose
of financing an acquisition
or other capital investment 369,597,195 89.65% 42,679,063 10.35% 60,733
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14. Special Resolution
- authorise the Company
to make market purchases
of own shares in the Company 405,318,593 98.33% 6,878,787 1.67% 139,611
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15. Special resolution
- that a general meeting
may be called on not less
than 14 clear days' notice 398,778,282 96.72% 13,531,576 3.28% 27,133
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* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:
Empiric Student Property plc (via Maitland/amo below)
Duncan Garrood (Chief Executive Officer)
Lynne Fennah (Chief Financial & Sustainability
Officer)
Jefferies International Limited 020 7029 8000
Tom Yeadon
Andrew Morris
RBC Europe Limited (trading as RBC
Capital Markets) 020 7653 4000
Marcus Jackson
Elliot Thomas
07747 113 930 / 020 7379
M aitland/amo (Communications Adviser) 5151
James Benjamin empiric-maitland@maitland.co.uk
Alistair de Kare-Silver
The Company's LEI is 213800FPF38IBPRFPU87.
Further information on Empiric can be found on the Company's
website at www.empiric.co.uk .
Notes:
Empiric Student Property plc is a leading provider and operator
of modern, predominantly direct-let, premium student accommodation
serving key UK universities. Investing in both operating and
development assets, Empiric is a fully integrated operational
student property business focused on premium studio-led
accommodation managed through its Hello Student(R) operating
platform, that is attractive to affluent growing student
segments.
The Company, an internally managed real estate investment trust
("REIT") incorporated in England and Wales, listed on the premium
listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct
Authority and was admitted to trading on the main market for listed
securities of the London Stock Exchange in June 2014.
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