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Legal & General Group Plc
20 May 2021
Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 20 MAY 2021
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual
General Meeting held today at One Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA
all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were
passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution For (1) Against Votes Withheld
(2)
No. of shares(1) % No. of shares %
---------------- ------ ------------- ----
Resolution 1
Receipt of financial
statements for the
year ended 31 December
2020 3,968,578,081 100.00 72,943 0.00 3,131,851
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 2
Declaration of a
final dividend of
12.64p per ordinary
share 3,939,505,595 99.19 32,068,426 0.81 208,854
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 3
Election of Ric
Lewis as a Director 3,959,857,095 99.71 11,335,910 0.29 589,870
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 4
Election of Nilufer
von Bismarck as
a Director 3,970,758,054 99.99 430,158 0.01 594,663
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 5
Re-election of Henrietta
Baldock as a Director 3,918,173,097 98.67 52,984,567 1.33 625,211
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 6
Re-election of Philip
Broadley as a Director 3,893,207,669 98.04 77,856,118 1.96 719,088
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 7
Re-election of Jeff
Davies as a Director 3,957,630,328 99.66 13,582,109 0.34 570,438
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Resolution 8
Re-election of Sir
John Kingman as
a Director 3,736,401,100 96.55 133,367,545 3.45 102,014,228
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 9
Re-election of Lesley
Knox as a Director 3,878,766,480 97.67 92,457,659 2.33 558,736
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 10
Re-election of George
Lewis as a Director 3,920,910,647 98.73 50,239,645 1.27 632,583
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 11
Re-election of Toby
Strauss as a Director 3,921,338,381 98.75 49,813,652 1.25 630,842
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 12
Re-election of Nigel
Wilson as a Director 3,970,836,069 99.99 411,078 0.01 535,728
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 13
Re-appointment of
KPMG LLP as auditors 3,919,121,589 98.68 52,249,703 1.32 411,583
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 14
To authorise the
Director's to fix
the Auditors' remuneration 3,940,021,713 99.21 31,418,417 0.79 342,745
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 15
Approval of Remuneration
Report 3,858,805,163 97.17 112,466,802 2.83 510,910
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 16
Authority to allot
equity securities 3,925,331,936 98.84 46,106,649 1.16 344,290
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 17
Authority to allot
contingent convertible
securities 3,937,640,023 99.15 33,710,861 0.85 431,990
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 18
Authority to make
political donations 3,878,069,376 97.66 93,095,462 2.34 616,036
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 19*
Disapplication of
pre-emption rights 3,958,288,284 99.67 12,985,584 0.33 507,007
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 20*
Additional authority
to disapply pre-emption
rights 3,873,208,287 97.53 98,104,325 2.47 468,262
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 21*
Additional authority
to disapply pre-emption
rights in connection
with CCS 3,926,590,014 98.88 44,673,342 1.12 517,518
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 22*
Authority to purchase
own shares 3,896,914,712 98.47 60,425,387 1.53 14,442,775
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 23*
To adopt new Articles
of Association 3,970,904,564 99.99 247,327 0.01 630,984
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Resolution 24*
Authority to call
general meetings
(other than an AGM)
on not less than
14 clear days' notice 3,654,776,173 92.03 316,696,434 7.97 310,267
---------------- ------ ------------- ---- --------------
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each
resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of votes cast was 3,971,574,021 representing
66.55% of voting capital as at 18 May 2021. At the close of
business on 18 May 2021, the issued share capital of the Company
was 5,967,625,491 ordinary shares (no shares are held in
Treasury).
* Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of
Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and also on
the Company's website at
https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of
the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary
business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Name of person making notification: Leanne Cornish
Contact Number: 020 3124 2107
Date of notification: 20 May 2021
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