6th Nov 2025 15:49
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
Result of General Meeting
LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73
06 November 2025
The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the ordinary resolution relating to the issue of New Shares in connection with the proposed combination of the assets of the Company with the assets of Fidelity Japan Trust Plc ("FJV") was approved by the Company's shareholders at the general meeting of the Company held at 03.00 p.m today.
The full text for the resolution is contained in the Notice of General Meeting incorporated in the circular dated 14 October 2025 (the "Circular"), a copy of which is available on the Company's website at https://www.ajot.co.uk.
The implementation of the proposals remains condition upon, amongst other things, the passing of the resolution to be proposed at the First FJV General Meeting to be held tomorrow 07 November, and the Second FJV General Meeting to be held on Thursday, 27 November.
For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolution were as follows:
Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld* | |||
Resolution 1 To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities under section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 to shareholders of Fidelity Japan Trust Plc in connection with the scheme of reconstruction and winding up of Fidelity Japan Trust plc, provided that this authority will (unless previously revoked) expire on 31 December 2025.
| 33,721,634 | 99.86% | 46,806 | 0.14% | 23,584 |
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.
Enquiries:
Joe BauernfreundAsset Value InvestorsInvestment Manager | 020 7659 4800 |
Nezia MorganMUFG Corporate Governance LimitedCompany Secretary | 020 4617 1038 |
James Maxwell, Asha Chotai, James Waterlow, Anthony DebsonSinger Capital Markets LimitedSole Sponsor and Joint Financial Adviser | 020 7496 3000 |
Notes:
A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.13 will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 137,198,943 with 1,360,716 held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company were 135,838,227.
Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
Related Shares:
Avi Japan Oppo.