22nd May 2025 15:30
Legal & General Group Plc 22 May 2025 |
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 22 May 2025
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at the British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 9JZ, 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 shares1 | % | No. of shares | % | ||
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024 | 3,012,710,967 | 99.74 | 7,720,637 | 0.26 | 13,819,040 |
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 15.36 pence per ordinary share | 2,972,842,141 | 98.01 | 60,281,579 | 1.99 | 1,114,960 |
Resolution 3 Election of Clare Bousfield as a Director | 3,030,211,808 | 99.94 | 1,852,998 | 0.06 | 2,150,560 |
Resolution 4 Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director | 2,992,478,190 | 98.71 | 39,032,092 | 1.29 | 2,020,802 |
Resolution 5 Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director | 2,940,801,783 | 97.01 | 90,585,036 | 2.99 | 2,144,265 |
Resolution 6 Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director | 3,017,308,513 | 99.54 | 14,050,637 | 0.46 | 2,171,934 |
Resolution 7 Re-election of Carolyn Johnson as a Director | 2,995,495,137 | 98.81 | 35,977,021 | 1.19 | 2,058,926 |
Resolution 8 Re-election of Nilufer Kheraj as a Director | 2,995,124,645 | 98.80 | 36,481,698 | 1.20 | 1,924,841 |
Resolution 9 Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director | 3,002,993,602 | 99.66 | 10,278,829 | 0.34 | 20,259,653 |
Resolution 10 Re-election of George Lewis as a Director | 2,992,349,859 | 98.72 | 38,767,185 | 1.28 | 2,045,183 |
Resolution 11 Re-election of Ric Lewis as a Director | 2,993,154,795 | 98.72 | 38,921,093 | 1.28 | 2,161,792 |
Resolution 12 Re-election of Tushar Morzaria as a Director | 2,992,670,826 | 98.69 | 39,639,781 | 1.31 | 1,904,759 |
Resolution 13 Re-election of António Simões as a Director | 3,023,282,011 | 99.70 | 9,103,482 | 0.30 | 1,851,644 |
Resolution 14 Re-election of Laura Wade-Gery as a Director | 2,917,027,870 | 96.21 | 115,040,696 | 3.79 | 2,147,800 |
Resolution 15 Reappointment of KPMG LLP as auditors | 2,940,006,728 | 98.64 | 40,576,484 | 1.36 | 53,655,468 |
Resolution 16 To authorise the Audit Committee, on behalf of the Board, to determine the Auditors' remuneration | 2,989,834,622 | 98.59 | 42,759,234 | 1.41 | 1,638,801 |
Resolution 17 Approval of Remuneration Report | 2,815,780,815 | 93.68 | 189,920,674 | 6.32 | 28,533,671 |
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations | 2,947,897,163 | 97.76 | 67,423,051 | 2.24 | 18,908,357 |
Resolution 19 Authority to allot equity shares | 2,957,266,122 | 97.52 | 75,267,188 | 2.48 | 1,701,850 |
Resolution 20 Authority to allot shares in respect of Contingent Convertible Securities (CCS) | 2,974,920,378 | 98.10 | 57,610,497 | 1.90 | 1,706,805 |
Resolution 21* Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 3,000,566,073 | 98.96 | 31,566,233 | 1.04 | 2,100,815 |
Resolution 22* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 3,022,023,621 | 99.66 | 10,185,034 | 0.34 | 2,025,277 |
Resolution 23* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS | 2,971,235,323 | 97.99 | 60,948,050 | 2.01 | 2,050,559 |
Resolution 24* Authority to purchase own shares | 3,012,558,026 | 99.41 | 17,798,666 | 0.59 | 3,879,468 |
Resolution 25* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 2,824,980,599 | 93.14 | 207,926,805 | 6.86 | 1,327,756 |
Notes:
1 | The 'for' votes include those giving the Chair 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 3,033,123,720 representing 52.21% of voting capital as at 21 May 2025. At the close of business on 21 May 2025, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,809,096,777 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
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*Denotes a Special Resolution.
Name: Leanne Cornish
Role: Group Head of Company Secretariat and Corporate Governance
Tel: 020 3124 4111
Email: [email protected]
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