HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800GS89AL1DK3IN50
28 January 2021
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting of the Company
held on Thursday, 28 January 2021
Henderson European Focus Trust plc (the 'Company') announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included four special resolutions:
- Resolution 12: to authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares up to to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital;
- Resolution 13: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares;
- Resolution 14: to hold general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice; and
- Resolution 15: to approve the amended Articles of Association.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 10 December 2020 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com.
The poll results were as follows:
| Resolutions | Votes for (including at Chair's discretion) | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast | % Issued Share Capital | Votes withheld |
| 1 Annual Report and financial statements | 10,725,588 | 99.01% | 107,697 | 0.99% | 10,833,285 | 50.66 | 1,767 |
| 2 Directors' Remuneration Policy | 10,820,415 | 99.94% | 6,141 | 0.06% | 10,826,556 | 50.63 | 8,496 |
| 3 Directors' Remuneration Report | 10,820,100 | 99.94% | 6,141 | 0.06% | 10,826,241 | 50.63 | 8,811 |
| 4 Approval of final dividend | 10,831,054 | 99.98% | 2,231 | 0.02% | 10,833,285 | 50.66 | 1,767 |
| 5 Re-election of Mrs Victoria Hastings | 10,686,178 | 98.69% | 142,356 | 1.31% | 10,828,534 | 50.64 | 6,518 |
| 6 Re-election of Ms Eliza Dungworth | 10,693,156 | 98.75% | 135,372 | 1.25% | 10,828,528 | 50.64 | 6,524 |
| 7 Re-election of Mr Robin Archibald | 10,418,529 | 96.21% | 410,005 | 3.79% | 10,828,534 | 50.64 | 6,518 |
| 8 Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor | 10,823,987 | 99.92% | 9,055 | 0.08% | 10,833,042 | 50.66 | 2,010 |
| 9 Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration | 10,826,395 | 99.96% | 3,975 | 0.04% | 10,830,370 | 50.65 | 4,682 |
| 10 Authority to allot ordinary shares | 10,824,267 | 99.95% | 5,115 | 0.05% | 10,829,382 | 50.65 | 5,670 |
| 11 Authority for electronic communications | 10,818,195 | 99.95% | 5,137 | 0.05% | 10,823,332 | 50.62 | 11,720 |
| 12 Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares* | 10,806,353 | 99.83% | 18,324 | 0.17% | 10,824,677 | 50.62 | 10,375 |
| 13 Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares* | 10,819,953 | 99.92% | 9,009 | 0.08% | 10,828,962 | 50.64 | 6,090 |
| 14 Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice* | 10,806,856 | 99.77% | 25,382 | 0.23% | 10,832,238 | 50.66 | 2,814 |
| 15 Approval of the Articles of Association* | 10,524,493 | 97.23% | 299,559 | 2.77% | 10,824,052 | 50.62 | 11,000 |
* Special resolution.
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 the close of business on 26 January 2021 (21,382,578), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the annual 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 ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 21,638,991. On a poll the voting rights are one vote for every one share held. The number of voting rights is therefore 21,382,578 (256,413 shares being held in Treasury).
A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:
www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com
A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
| James de Sausmarez Director and Head of Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Tel: 020 7818 3349 | Laura Thomas Investment Trust PR Manager Janus Henderson Investors Tel: 020 7818 2636 |
| Johana Woodruff For and on behalf of Henderson Secretarial Services Limited Henderson European Focus Trust plc Tel: 020 7818 2220 |
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