REG-Aberforth Split Level Income Trust Plc: Result of Meeting

Aberforth Split Level Income TrustAnnouncement

20/06/2024 12:00

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20 June 2024

Aberforth Split Level Income Trust plc

Legal Entity Identifier: 21380013QYWO82NZV529

 

Result of First General Meeting

In connection with the proposals for the voluntary winding up of Aberforth
Split Level Income Trust plc (the "Company" or "ASLIT") and combination
with Aberforth Geared Value & Income Trust plc ("AGVIT") by way of a scheme
of reconstruction of the Company under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986
(the "Scheme"), the Company is pleased to announce the result of the First
General Meeting.

The Company announces that the special resolution proposed at the First
General Meeting held today has been passed by Shareholders.  Details of the
number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the resolution,
which was held on a poll, is set out below and will also be published on the
Company's website
https://www.aberforth.co.uk/trusts-and-funds/aberforth-split-level-income-trust-plc.

 

 Special Resolution                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Votes For (including Discretionary)  %      Votes Against  %     Votes Total  % Issued Share Capital represented by Votes Total 1  Votes Withheld 2  
 To approve (i) the Scheme; (ii) the reclassification of the Company's shares; (iii) the changes required to be made to the Company's articles of association in order to implement the Scheme; and (iv) the granting of certain powers to the proposed liquidators.  102,532,360                          99.87  128,980        0.13  102,661,340  53.96                                                2,256             

 

1. Only Ordinary Shareholders were entitled to vote on this resolution.  The
number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at the voting record time of 6.30 p.m.
(London time) on 18 June 2024 (the "Voting Record Time") was 190,250,000.  As
at that date no Ordinary Shares were held in treasury.  Therefore, the total
number of voting rights in the Company as at the Voting Record Time was
190,250,000.
 
1. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the
calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution.
 

In accordance with the Scheme, the Shares will be disabled for settlement in
CREST from 6.00 p.m. on 21 June 2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30
a.m. on 24 June 2024.  Following the reclassification of the Shares and
admission of the Reclassified Shares to the London Stock Exchange on 27 June
2024, the Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on
28 June 2024.

 

The full text of the special resolution proposed at the First General Meeting
is set out in the Notice of First General Meeting contained in the Company's
circular to Shareholders dated 28 May 2024 (the "Circular").

 

The Circular is available for viewing on the Company's website at
 https://www.aberforth.co.uk/trusts-and-funds/aberforth-geared-value-income-trust-plc
and at the National Storage Mechanism at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the
Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

 

For further information please contact:

 

 Aberforth Partners LLP Euan Macdonald Peter Shaw           +44 (0) 131 220 0733  
 J.P. Morgan Cazenove (JPMC) William Simmonds Rupert Budge  +44 (0) 203 493 8000  

 



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