JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12
20 June 2024
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
Results of First General Meeting
In connection with the proposals for the merger of interests of Henderson EuroTrust plc (the "Company") with Henderson European Focus Trust plc ("HEFT") to form Henderson European Trust plc (the "Combined Trust") by means of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme") and the issue of New HEFT Shares to Shareholders who are deemed to have elected to roll over their investment into the Combined Trust, the Board is pleased to announce that the Resolutions which were put forward at the First General Meeting held today and voted on a poll have been approved by Shareholders.
The poll results were as follows:
| Resolution | Votes for | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast | % Issued Share Capital | Votes withheld |
| 1. To approve the reclassification of the shares in the capital of the Company as shares with "A" rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes required to the Company's articles of association. | 123,026,968 | 99.90 | 126,895 | 0.10 | 123,153,863 | 58.13 | 76,201 |
| 2. To approve the Scheme; further amend the Company's articles of association in order to implement the Scheme; and to instruct the Liquidators to give effect to the Scheme. | 123,026,968 | 99.90 | 126,895 | 0.10 | 123,153,863 | 58.13 | 76,201 |
These results will also be published on the Company's website: www.hendersoneurotrust.com.
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at 6.30 p.m. on 18 June 2024 (211,855,410), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in order to vote at the First General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a Resolution.
The number of Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 211,855,410. There are no Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 211,855,410.
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of First General Meeting contained in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 20 May 2024 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.hendersoneurotrust.com.
The Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 27 June 2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 28 June 2024. Following the reclassification of the Shares on 3 July 2024, the Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 4 July 2024.
Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the Circular unless the context otherwise requires.
For further information please contact:
| Henderson EuroTrust plc Nicola Ralston Chairman
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Contact via Company Secretary 020 7818 4082 |
| Janus Henderson Investors, Manager Dan Howe Head of Investment Trusts
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020 7818 4458
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| Oliver Packard Head of Investment Trust Sales
| 0207 818 2690 |
| Harriet Hall PR Director, Investment Trusts
| 020 7818 2919 |
| Deutsche Numis, Corporate Broker Nathan Brown Matt Goss |
020 7260 1426 020 7260 1642 |
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