12th Jun 2025 13:46
North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC
("NASCIT", "the Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company held on 12 June 2025, all of the resolutions, as set out in full in the notice of the Meeting dated 15 May 2025 (the "Notice"), were duly passed as set below:
Total votes received (including proxy and poll votes):
Resolution | For | % (of votes cast exl. withheld) | Against | % (of votes cast exl. withheld | Votes Withheld |
1 | 7,120,335 | 99.99 | 824 | 0.01 | 1,384 |
2 | 7,113,641 | 99.93 | 4,981 | 0.07 | 3,921 |
3 | 6,935,405 | 97.39 | 185,736 | 2.61 | 1,402 |
4 | 7,024,678 | 98.7 | 92,792 | 1.3 | 5,073 |
5 | 7,059,035 | 99.19 | 57,862 | 0.81 | 5,646 |
6 | 7,056,401 | 99.13 | 62,069 | 0.87 | 4,073 |
7 | 6,695,406 | 94.06 | 423,064 | 5.94 | 4,073 |
8 | 7,057,155 | 99.16 | 59,742 | 0.84 | 5,646 |
9 | 7,058,972 | 99.18 | 58,198 | 0.82 | 5,373 |
10 | 7,116,130 | 99.98 | 1,524 | 0.02 | 4,889 |
11 | 7,118,152 | 99.98 | 1,524 | 0.02 | 2,867 |
12 | 7,102,264 | 99.73 | 19,056 | 0.27 | 1,223 |
13 | 7,119,403 | 99.97 | 2,041 | 0.03 | 1,099 |
14 | 7,104,393 | 99.72 | 19,951 | 0.28 | 2,679 |
15 | 7,060,742 | 99.09 | 64,945 | 0.91 | 1,336 |
16 | 7,113,476 | 99.87 | 8,946 | 0.13 | 4,601 |
17* | 2,714,623 | 91.79 | 242,814 | 8.21 | 4,170,186 |
* Resolution 17 was put to the Meeting as a resolution of the independent shareholders of the Company. As a result, 9,020,928 of the ordinary shares in issue were eligible to vote on this resolution, these shares not being held by the Concert Party (as defined in the Notice). The waiver of Rule 9 granted by Resolution 17 permits the Concert Party's interest in the Company's shares to increase from 31.555% to a maximum of 35.062% (in each case representing 41,653,210 ordinary shares) as a result of the share buyback authorised by Resolution 15 without requiring the Concert Party to make a mandatory offer for the other shareholders' shares. The results of the poll vote on this Resolution 17 were 2,714,623 votes for, 242,814 against, therefore with 91.79% in favour of the resolution.
Enquiries:
Ben Harber, Company Secretary
Related Shares:
North Atl.smlr