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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 8706S\n Close Brothers Group PLC\n 18 November 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Close Brothers Group plc \n \n \n Annual General Meeting resolutions passed\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Close Brothers Group plc (the \"group\" or \"Close Brothers\") announces that at the Annual General Meeting of the group duly convened and held on Thursday 18 November 2021 at 10 Crown Place, London EC2A 4FT and electronically, the following special business resolutions of the group were passed: \n \n \n \n \n \n Ordinary resolutions\n \n \n \n \n \n 18. To authorise the Board generally and unconditionally to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company:\n \n \n (a) up to a nominal amount of £12,566,854 (such amount to be reduced by any allotments or grants made under paragraph (b) below in excess of such sum; and\n \n \n (b) comprising equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006) up to a nominal amount of £25,133,708 (such amount to be reduced by any allotments or grants made under paragraph (a) above) in connection with an offer by way of a rights issue:\n \n \n (1) to ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be practicable) to their existing holdings; and\n \n \n (2) to holders of other equity securities as required by the rights of those securities or as the Board otherwise considers necessary,\n \n \n and so that the Board may impose any limits or restrictions and make any arrangements which it considers necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter,\n \n \n such authorities to apply until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company (or, if earlier, until the close of business on 18 February 2023) but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the authority ends and the Board may allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.\n \n \n 1...