16 May 2025
JPMORGAN EUROPEAN DISCOVERY TRUST PLC
(THE "COMPANY" OR "JEDT")
Results of General Meeting
Following the general meeting of the Company (the "General Meeting"), which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that the resolution set out in the notice of the General Meeting (the "Resolution") was duly passed on a poll as a special resolution.
Immediately prior to the passing of the Resolution, the Company's issued share capital comprised 136,314,903 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Shares"), of which 33,641,819 Shares were held in treasury. Accordingly, the Company was granted the authority to repurchase up to 15,390,695 Shares pursuant to the terms of the Resolution.
Details of the number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the Resolution are set out in the table below and will also be published on the Company's website (www.jpmeuropeandiscovery.co.uk).
| Resolution | Votes for (including discretionary) | Votes against | Total votes | Votes | ||||
| Number | % of shares voted(2) | Number | % of shares voted(2) | Number | Proportion of issued share capital voted (%)(2) | |||
| To authorise the Company to purchase Shares. | 54,910,054 | 97.23 | 1,566,465 | 2.77 | 56,476,519 | 54.50 | 6,992 | |
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| Notes: | | | ||||||
| 1. | Each holder of Shares present at the General Meeting, in person or by proxy, was entitled to one vote per Share held at the voting record time, being 6.00 p.m. on 14 May 2025 (the "Record Time"). At the Record Time, the Company's issued share capital comprised 136,314,903 Shares, of which 32,691,467 Shares were held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company at the Record Time was 103,623,436. | |||||||
| 2. | Rounded to two decimal places | |||||||
| 3. | A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of Shares voted "For" or "Against" the Resolution or in the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted. | |||||||
A copy of the notice of the General Meeting is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism (https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) and on the Company's website (www.jpmeuropeandiscovery.co.uk).
A copy of the Resolution passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
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| JPMorgan European Discovery Trust plc Marc van Gelder | Contact via Company Secretary |
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| Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Corporate Broker to JPMorgan European Discovery Trust plc) Andrew Worne Robert Peel Hamish Kennett | +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
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| JPMorgan Funds Limited (Company Secretary) | +44 (0) 20 7742 4000 |
| Priyanka Vijay Anand | |
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JEDT's Legal Entity Identifier: 54930049CEWDI46Y3U28
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