Capita plc - Result of Meeting
PR Newswire
London, January 14
Capita plc
("Capita" or the "Company")
Capita gains shareholder approval for the proposed sale of its Education Software Solutions Business
Capita is pleased to announce that the resolution proposed at the general meeting of the Company held at 11:00 a.m. on 14 January 2021 (the "General Meeting"), seeking approval for the proposed sale of its Education Software Solutions business to Tiger UK Bidco Limited, a newly formed company ultimately owned by funds advised by Montagu Private Equity (the "Disposal"), was duly passed by shareholders. Full details of the poll result are set out below.
Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Votes Total | % of ISC Voted | Votes Withheld |
THAT the Disposal be approved | 1,308,560,457 | 99.97 | 348,043 | 0.03 | 1,308,908,500 | 78.32 | 518,733 |
The full text of the resolution is set out in the notice of General Meeting forming part of the circular to shareholders dated 16 December 2020.
Please note a 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is therefore not included in the calculation of votes 'for' and 'against' the resolution.
The total number of issued ordinary shares in the Company (excluding treasury shares) as at 6:00 p.m. on 12 January 2021, being the voting record time, was 1,668,973,568 ordinary shares. Therefore, the total number of votes exercisable as at the voting record time were 1,668,973,568.
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.
Barclays Bank PLC, acting through its Investment Bank ("Barclays"), is acting as sole sponsor to Capita on the Disposal.
For more information please contact:
Capita investor enquiries
Stuart Morgan
Director of Investor Relations
Tel: 07989 665484
Email: IRteam@capita.co.uk
Capita media enquiries
Capita external communications
Tel: 0207 654 2399
Email: media@capita.co.uk
Barclays(Sole Sponsor to Capita)
Omar Faruqui
Tom Macdonald
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7623 2323
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Important Notices
This announcement is an announcement and not a circular or prospectus or equivalent document and prospective investors should not make any investment decision on the basis of its contents. Nothing in this announcement constitutes an offer of securities for sale in any jurisdiction.
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Barclays, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA, is acting exclusively for Capita and no one else in connection with the Disposal and will not be responsible to anyone other than Capita for providing the protections afforded to clients of Barclays nor for providing advice in relation to the Disposal or any other matter referred to in this announcement.