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RESULTS OF COURT MEETING AND GENERAL MEETING
RESULTS OF COURT MEETING AND GENERAL MEETING.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nNOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION\nTHIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n13 November 2024\nRECOMMENDED CASH AND SHARE OFFER\nby\nNEWRIVER REIT PLC\nfor\nCAPITAL & REGIONAL PLC\nto be effected by means of a Scheme of Arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006\nRESULTS OF COURT MEETING AND CAPITAL & REGIONAL GENERAL MEETING\nThe Board of Capital & Regional plc (\"Capital & Regional\") announces that at the Court Meeting and the Capital & Regional General Meeting held earlier today in connection with the recommended cash and share offer by NewRiver REIT plc (\"NewRiver\") for Capital & Regional (the \"Combination\", forming the \"Combined Group\"), all resolutions were duly passed with over 99 per cent. support from shareholders on each resolution.\n \nAs previously announced, the Combination is to be implemented by means of a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the \"Scheme\") and today:\n \n(i) a majority in number of Scheme Shareholders who voted and were entitled to vote, either in person or by proxy, who together represented not less than 75 per cent in value of the Scheme Shares voted, voted in favour of the Scheme at the Court Meeting; and\n(ii) the requisite majority of Capital & Regional Shareholders voted to approve the special resolution required to be approved in connection with the Scheme at the Capital & Regional General Meeting.\nFull details of the resolutions passed are set out in the notices of the Court Meeting and the Capital & Regional General Meeting contained in Part 10 and Part 11 respectively of the scheme document published by Capital & Regional on 21 October 2024 in connection with the Combination (the \"Scheme Document\").\n \nThe tables below set out the results of the poll at the Court Meeting and the Capital & Regional General Meeting. Each Scheme Shareholder present, in person or by proxy, was entitled to one vote per Scheme Share held at the Scheme Voting Record Time. At the Scheme Voting Record Time, Capital & Regional had 232,996,247 Scheme Shares in issue, none of which ...