abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13
Result of Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company") held on Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 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 2022, available on the Company's website www.abrdnpeot.com*, were duly passed on a show of hands
The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the meeting are shown in the table below:
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| 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 | 109,860,255 | 100.00% | 817 | 0.00% | 10,144 | 109,861,072 |
| 2. Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 109,672,957 | 99.87% | 138,945 | 0.13% | 59,313 | 109,811,902 |
| 3. Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 109,573,492 | 99.87% | 137,145 | 0.13% | 160,578 | 109,710,637 |
| 4. Approve the Dividend Policy | 109,861,028 | 100.00% | 817 | 0.00% | 9,371 | 109,861,845 |
| 5. Re-elect Mr Agble | 109,816,732 | 99.99% | 13,258 | 0.01% | 41,226 | 109,829,990 |
| 6. Re-elect Mr Devine | 109,814,922 | 99.99% | 12,988 | 0.01% | 43,306 | 109,827,910 |
| 7. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams | 109,825,334 | 99.99% | 9,772 | 0.01% | 36,110 | 109,835,106 |
| 8. Re-elect Ms Stillhart | 109,823,935 | 99.99% | 11,586 | 0.01% | 35,695 | 109,835,521 |
| 9. Re-elect Mr Thomson | 109,818,252 | 99.99% | 11,952 | 0.01% | 41,012 | 109,830,204 |
| 10. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor | 109,830,214 | 99.98% | 25,501 | 0.02% | 15,500 | 109,855,715 |
| 11. Remuneration of the Auditor | 109,835,333 | 99.98% | 16,846 | 0.02% | 19,036 | 109,852,179 |
| 12. Allotment of new equity | 109,745,674 | 99.90% | 106,070 | 0.10% | 19,472 | 109,851,744 |
| 13. Disapply pre-emption rights | 109,474,141 | 99.66% | 378,105 | 0.34% | 18,970 | 109,852,246 |
| 14. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares | 108,024,346 | 98.33% | 1,830,339 | 1.67% | 16,530 | 109,854,685 |
| 15. Approve holding meetings on less than 14 days' notice | 109,691,016 | 99.85% | 165,387 | 0.15% | 14,813 | 109,856,403 |
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.
For abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc
abrdn Holdings Limited
Company Secretary
22 March 2023
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