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Equiniti Group PLC

25 April 2017

Equiniti Group plc

Incorporated in England and Wales

Registration number: 07090427

LEI: 213800TS721HGE2JIV94

ISIN: GB00BYWWHR75

Equiniti Group plc

("the Company")

Results of 2017 Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, 110 Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1AY on Tuesday 25 April 2017, all the resolutions were voted on by poll and were passed by the Company's shareholders.

The total voting rights of the Company on 21 April 2017, the day on which shareholders had to be on the register in order to be eligible to vote, was 300,054,000. All of the resolutions were passed at the Annual General Meeting. The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below:

 
                                 Votes For               Votes Against          Votes        Total Votes 
                                  (including                                     Withheld     Cast (excluding 
                                  discretion)                                                 Votes Withheld) 
---  -------------------------  ----------------------  ---------------------  -----------  ----------------------- 
      Resolution                   Number       % of       Number      % of       Number       Number        % of 
                                  of shares     shares    of shares    shares    of shares    of shares     issued 
                                                voted                  voted                                 share 
                                                                                                            capital 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Receive the 
       Annual Report 
  1    and Accounts              233,073,416    100.00        3,622      0.00          912   233,077,038     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Approve the 
       Directors' 
       Remuneration 
       Report, excluding 
       the Directors' 
       Remuneration 
  2    Policy                    231,834,403     99.50    1,161,403      0.50       82,144   232,995,806     77.65% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Approve the 
       final dividend 
       of 3.11 pence 
       per ordinary 
  3    share                     233,077,950    100.00            0      0.00            0   233,077,950     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Sally-Ann 
       Hibberd as 
  4    a Director                232,835,919     99.90      240,980      0.10        1,051   233,076,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Darren Pope 
  5    as a Director             232,853,419     99.90      223,480      0.10        1,051   233,076,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Kevin Beeston 
  6    as a Director             232,580,737     99.79      496,162      0.21        1,051   233,076,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Victoria Jarman 
  7    as a Director             230,697,650     98.98    2,379,248      1.02        1,051   233,076,898     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Dr Timothy 
       Miller as 
  8    a Director                230,750,369     99.00    2,326,529      1.00        1,051   233,076,898     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       John Parker 
  9    as a Director             232,588,366     99.79      489,184      0.21          400   233,077,550     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       John Stier 
 10    as a Director             231,941,405     99.51    1,135,494      0.49        1,051   233,076,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Guy Wakeley 
 11    as a Director             232,787,671     99.88      289,228      0.12        1,051   233,076,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Reappoint 
       Pricewater-houseCoopers 
 12    LLP as Auditor            228,854,379     98.19    4,222,819      1.81          751   233,077,198     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      To authorise 
       the Audit 
       Committee 
       to determine 
       the Auditors' 
 13    fees                      228,910,225     98.21    4,166,900      1.79          824   233,077,125     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Grant the 
       Directors 
       authority 
       to allot shares 
 14    in the Company            223,783,626     96.01    9,294,273      3.99           51   233,077,899     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      To dis-apply 
       pre-emption 
 15    rights                    233,046,713     99.99       30,315      0.01          922   233,077,028     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Authorise 
       market purchases 
       of shares 
 16    into treasury             232,955,305     99.95      120,694      0.05        1,951   233,075,999     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Authorise 
       the giving 
       of political 
 17    donations                 212,641,374     91.23   20,436,071      8.77          505   233,077,445     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Approve the 
       amendments 
       to the articles 
 18    of association            233,048,374    100.00        9,476      0.00       20,100   233,057,850     77.67% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
      Authorise 
       the holding 
       of general 
       meetings on 
       14 clear days' 
 19    notice                    229,554,262     98.49    3,522,985      1.51          702   233,077,247     77.68% 
---  -------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  -----------  ------------  --------- 
 

This announcement will be available on the Company's website http://investors.equiniti.com/investors as soon as practicable.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the special business resolutions (15, 16, 18, 19) passed at the meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and shortly be available for inspection at its web site: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

25 April 2017

Enquiries:

Kathy Cong

Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7469 1800

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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