RIT Capital Partners PLC Result of AGM (3697W)

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RNS Number : 3697W

RIT Capital Partners PLC

22 April 2021

22 April 2021

RIT CAPITAL PARTNERS PLC (LEI: P31Q1NLTW35JJGHA4667)

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - (ALL RESOLUTIONS PASSED)

AND COMMITTEE CHANGES

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc ('Company') was held on Thursday 22 April 2021.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 29 March 2021 were passed and prints of the items of special business passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follow:

 
                                                 FOR/                       VOTES 
RESOLUTION                                        DISCRETIONARY   AGAINST    WITHHELD 
ORDINARY BUSINESS: 
     Approval of the Directors' Report 
      and Accounts for the year ended 31 
1.    December 2020                                  72,904,626     26,758       7,766 
     Approval of the Directors' Remuneration 
      Report for the year ended 31 December 
2.    2020                                           72,158,731    312,122     468,297 
     Re-election of Sir James Leigh-Pemberton 
3.    as a Director                                  54,696,837  3,157,302  15,085,011 
     Re-election of Philippe Costeletos 
4.    as a Director                                  70,438,658  2,454,538      45,954 
     Re-election of Maggie Fanari as a 
5.    Director                                       72,879,193     11,866      48,091 
6.   Re-election of Maxim Parr as a Director         72,854,811     18,616      65,723 
     Re-election of André Perold as 
7.    a Director                                     72,849,689     22,959      66,502 
8.   Re-election of Mike Power as a Director         72,851,717     19,129      68,304 
     Re-election of Hannah Rothschild as 
9.    a Director                                     72,479,191     24,440     433,969 
     Re-election of Jeremy Sillem as a 
10.   Director                                       63,601,972  8,882,566     454,612 
     Re-election of Jonathan Sorrell as 
11.   a Director                                     72,846,048     24,638      68,064 
12.  Re-election of Amy Stirling as a Director       72,882,655      8,010      48,085 
     Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP 
13.   as auditors                                    72,828,864     64,981      44,905 
     To authorise the Directors to fix 
14.   the remuneration of the auditors               72,885,885     12,124      40,741 
SPECIAL BUSINESS: 
      To renew the power to allot equity 
15.    securities                                    72,760,092    168,317      10,341 
      To authorise the Directors to allot 
16.    equity securities for cash                    72,844,355     72,534      21,861 
     To renew the authority to repurchase 
      up to 14.99 per cent. of the Company's 
17.   issued share capital                           72,869,928     58,380      10,442 
     To change the notice period for general 
      meetings other than annual general 
18.   meetings to 14 days                            72,610,386    310,093      18,271 
 

Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.

Composition of Board Committees

Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.11R, the Company announces the following changes to the composition of its Board Committees with immediate effect:

   --    Sir James Leigh-Pemberton has been appointed to the Conflicts Committee; and 
   --    Maxim Parr has been appointed to the Remuneration Committee. 

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