Partnership Assurance Group PLC Result of Court Meeting and General Meeting (5732T)

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RNS Number : 5732T

Partnership Assurance Group PLC

30 March 2016

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30 March 2016

REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT

Partnership Assurance Group Plc

Court Meeting and General Meeting

The Partnership Assurance board is pleased to announce that, at the Court Meeting and General Meeting held today in connection with the proposed recommended all-share merger with Just Retirement Group plc, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed.

Details of the resolutions passed are set out in the notices of the Court Meeting and General Meeting contained in the scheme document posted to, amongst others, Partnership Assurance Shareholders on 5 November 2015.

The results of the poll, including proxies received, are set out below.

 
                                    Votes for       %         Votes against   %        % of ISC voted   Votes withheld 
---------------------------------  --------------  --------  --------------  -------  ---------------  --------------- 
 Result of the Court Meeting: 
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 Resolution to approve the Scheme 
  of Arrangement                    353,698,137     99.95     161,143         0.05     80.40            N/A 
---------------------------------  --------------  --------  --------------  -------  ---------------  --------------- 
 Result of the General Meeting: 
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 Special Resolution to, for the 
  purposes of giving effect to 
  the Scheme: 
  (a) authorise the directors of 
  the Company to take all such 
  action as the may consider 
  necessary 
  or appropriate for carrying the 
  Scheme into full effect; and 
  (b) amend the articles of           354,470,216     99.95     160,873         0.05     80.57            188,960 
  association of the Company be 
  amended by the adoption and 
  inclusion 
  of the new articles as set out 
  in the notice covering the 
  General Meeting                     353,257,910     99.56     1,561,869       0.44     80.62            270 
---------------------------------  --------------  --------  --------------  -------  ---------------  --------------- 
 

Other

A copy of this announcement will be available free of charge (subject to any applicable restrictions with respect to persons resident in certain jurisdictions) on Partnership Assurance's website.

Enquiries:

Partnership Assurance (Investors)

 
 Katherine    +44 (0) 20 
  Jones        7444 8040 
 

Partnership Assurance (Media)

 
             +44 (0) 20 
 Jim Boyd     7618 2744 
 

Evercore (Lead financial adviser to Partnership Assurance)

 
                               +44 (0) 20 
 Andrew Sibbald                 7653 6000 
                               +44 (0) 20 
 Nick Chapman                   7653 6000 
 Citigate (Financial PR adviser to Partnership 
  Assurance) 
                               +44 (0) 20 
 Grant Ringshaw                 7282 2851 
                               +44 (0) 20 
 Shabnam Bashir                 7282 2822 
 

Important notices

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to and does not constitute an offer or an invitation to purchase or subscribe for any securities or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities pursuant to this announcement or otherwise in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.

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