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abrdn Private Equity Opp Trst plc
27 March 2024

abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13

27 March 2024

Result of Annual General Meeting & Investment Manager Update

Result of AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company" or "APEO") held on Wednesday, 27 March 2024, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2023, available on the Company's website www.abrdnpeot.com*, were duly passed.

Proxy votes

The proxy votes received in respect of the AGM resolutions proposed at the meeting are shown in the table below:

For and Discretionary

Against

Votes

Total Votes

Resolution

Number

No. of

Votes

% of

Votes Cast

No. of

Votes

% of

Votes Cast

Withheld

(excluding Votes Withheld)

1. Receive the Annual Report and Financial Statements

109,836,666

100.00

3,722

0.00

11,691

109,840,388

2. Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

109,660,172

99.86

155,541

0.14

36,366

109,815,713

3. Approve the Dividend Policy

109,838,935

100.00

3,722

0.00

9,422

109,842,657

4. Re-elect Mr Agble

109,783,542

99.98

20,309

0.02

48,228

109,803,851

5. Re-elect Mr Devine

109,748,143

99.95

51,436

0.05

52,500

109,799,579

6. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams

109,778,477

99.99

15,957

0.01

57,645

109,794,434

7. Re-elect Ms Stillhart

109,788,129

99.99

15,722

0.01

48,228

109,803,851

8. Re-elect Mr Thomson

109,779,716

99.98

24,135

0.02

48,228

109,803,851

9. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor

109,787,683

99.96

47,269

0.04

17,127

109,834,952

10. Remuneration of the Auditor

109,823,435

99.99

15,573

0.01

13,071

109,839,008

11. Allotment of new equity

109,814,610

99.98

27,015

0.02

10,454

109,841,625

12. Disapply pre-emption rights

109,174,155

99.41

653,166

0.59

24,758

109,827,321

13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

107,895,091

98.23

1,941,487

1.77

15,501

109,836,578

14. Approve holding meetings on less than 14 days' notice

109,722,870

99.90

111,598

0.10

17,611

109,834,468

15. Adoption of new Articles of Association

109,738,298

99.92

83,135

0.08

30,646

109,821,433

Copies of the resolutions passed under special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*.

*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.

Investment Manager Update

At the AGM, Mr Devine, the APEO Chair, also provided an update, further to the Company's announcement on 16 October 2023, on the status of sale by abrdn plc ("abrdn") of its European-headquartered Private Equity business, including the Company's investment manager, abrdn Capital Partners LLP, to an indirect subsidiary of Patria Investments Limited ("Patria")(the "Transaction").

Mr Devine said:

"In October 2023, abrdn announced the conditional sale of its European-headquartered Private Equity business, which includes APEO's investment manager, abrdn Capital Partners LLP, to an indirect subsidiary of Patria Investments Limited, a global alternative asset manager established in Latin America.

As I mentioned in our Annual Report, the Board has been undertaking extensive diligence on the proposed Transaction with abrdn, our investment management team, and with Patria, to fully understand the impact of the sale, and what it means for APEO and its shareholders.

I am pleased to confirm that the Board has completed its due diligence exercise and has agreed to consent to the Transaction by waiving the "Manager Change of Control" provisions set out in our Investment Management Agreement.

During our diligence, we received various assurances, including that there will be: (i) no change to the management and administration services which are provided to APEO; (ii) no change to APEO's investment management process; and (iii) no change to the personnel managing APEO. Importantly, we also received comfort that the Transaction will be cost neutral for the Company - there are not expected to be any additional costs to the Company (and so shareholders) as a result of it.

The Transaction remains subject to regulatory approval and, upon receipt of that approval, the Board is excited to continue to work with APEO's management team, and the wider team at Patria."

For abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc

abrdn Holdings Limited

Company Secretary

27 March 2024

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