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Result of EGM

29th Nov 2010 13:05

RNS Number : 9742W
Trinity Capital PLC
29 November 2010
 

Trinity Capital Plc (the "Company")

Result of EGM

 

 

Trinity Capital Plc (AIM:TRC) is pleased to announce that at an extraordinary general meeting of the Company held today resolutions to appoint a new director, adopt a directors' incentive plan for certain directors and renew authorities to allow the Company to purchase its own shares were all duly passed.

 

The new director is Mr John Chapman, aged 54, who is a qualified attorney and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has worked as a white collar criminal prosecutor in the United States and as a commercial litigator handling complex commercial litigation. He has also worked as an advisor to various US and foreign governmental bodies on law enforcement issues. Along with his legal background, Mr. Chapman has extensive experience as a director of quoted, emerging market, closed ended funds.

 

In addition Mr Chapman has been appointed Chairman of the newly constituted legal committee which has been charged with overseeing and making major decisions in connection with the ongoing disputes that the Company is engaged in with the previous Investment Manager and Immobilien I and Immobilien II. He has also been appointed a member of the newly constituted investment committee which is responsible for overseeing the orderly disposal of the Company's assets in accordance with the Company's revised investment policy.

 

Save as set out below, no further information in relation to Mr. Chapman's appointment is required to be disclosed under Paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules

 

Current Directorships

Past Directorships

ACP Mezzanine Limited*

ACP Capital Limited

ACP Investment Management Limited*

ACP Capital (UK) Limited

ACP Capital Next Energy Initiative Limited*

Black Sea Property Fund Limited

Kazakhstan Investment Fund Limited*

Ottoman Fund Limited

Momentum Energy International Inc

South African Property Opportunities plc

Muni Funding Co. of America LLC

Principle Capital Investment Trust Plc

Ukraine Fund Limited*

 

* Company liquidated or in liquidation pursuant to voluntary liquidation

 

Commenting on the appointment, Martin Adams, Chairman of the Company, said:

"The Board is delighted that John's election to the Board has received such strong support from shareholders with over 94 % voting for his appointment. We warmly welcome John as a Director. During the period while he acted as a consultant to Trinity, the Company benefited significantly from John's legal and emerging markets investment experience. John chairs the newly constituted Legal Committee of the Board, which Graham Smith from the Administrator and I have also joined. He is also a member of the newly constituted Investment Committee which I chair and Arvind Pahwa and Pradeep Verma have also joined. All Directors are independent of the Shareholders and I am confident that the experience of the Board will enable us to successfully steer the Company through the challenges of the investment realisations and the disputes in implementing the investment policy and maximising shareholder distributions."

 

 

 

29November 2010

 

Enquiries:

 

 

MHP Communications

Tim McCall / James White +44 20 3128 8100  

 

IOMA Fund and Investment Management Limited

Philip Scales, Director +44 1624 681250

 

Evolution Securities Ltd, Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker

Bobbie Hilliam / Chris Clarke, Corporate Finance +44 207 071 4300

 

Arden Partners plc, Joint Broker

Chris Hardie, Corporate Finance +44 207 398 1600

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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