RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD ON 21 APRIL 2023
Pursuant to Rule 704(16) of the Listing Manual, Keppel Corporation Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held at 3.00 p.m. on 21 April 2023, all resolutions relating to the matters as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 30 March 2023 were put to the meeting and duly passed.
- RESULTS OF AGM
The following are the poll results in respect of the resolutions passed at the AGM:
Resolution | Total | For | Against | |||
number of | Number of | As a | Number of | As a | ||
Shares | Shares | percentage | Shares | percentage | ||
represented | of total | of total | ||||
by votes for | number of | number of | ||||
and against | votes for | votes for | ||||
the | and | and | ||||
Resolution | against the | against the | ||||
Resolution | Resolution | |||||
(%) | (%) | |||||
Ordinary Business | ||||||
1. | Adoption of Directors' | 802,324,653 | 802,078,996 | 99.97 | 245,657 | 0.03 |
Statement and Audited | ||||||
Financial Statements | ||||||
2. | Declaration of Dividend | 804,186,887 | 803,947,330 | 99.97 | 239,557 | 0.03 |
3. | Re-election of Danny | 803,720,759 | 722,074,618 | 89.84 | 81,646,141 | 10.16 |
Teoh as Director | ||||||
4. | Re-election of Till | 803,157,050 | 789,899,375 | 98.35 | 13,257,675 | 1.65 |
Vestring as Director | ||||||
5. | Re-election of Veronica | 803,354,987 | 800,576,622 | 99.65 | 2,778,365 | 0.35 |
Eng as Director | ||||||
6. | Re-election of Olivier | 803,376,687 | 797,940,354 | 99.32 | 5,436,333 | 0.68 |
Blum as Director | ||||||
7. | Re-election of Jimmy | 803,389,867 | 797,490,125 | 99.27 | 5,899,742 | 0.73 |
Ng as Director | ||||||
8. | Approval of fees to | 803,041,682 | 799,656,265 | 99.58 | 3,385,417 | 0.42 |
non-executive | ||||||
Directors for FY2023 | ||||||
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Resolution | Total | For | Against | |||
number of | Number of | As a | Number of | As a | ||
Shares | Shares | percentage | Shares | percentage | ||
represented | of total | of total | ||||
by votes for | number of | number of | ||||
and against | votes for | votes for | ||||
the | and | and | ||||
Resolution | against the | against the | ||||
Resolution | Resolution | |||||
(%) | (%) | |||||
9. | Re-appointment of | 802,152,816 | 801,042,202 | 99.86 | 1,110,614 | 0.14 |
Auditors | ||||||
Special Business | ||||||
10. | Authority to issue | 803,213,684 | 777,449,294 | 96.79 | 25,764,390 | 3.21 |
shares and convertible | ||||||
instruments | ||||||
11. | Renewal of Share | 803,335,431 | 800,583,152 | 99.66 | 2,752,279 | 0.34 |
Purchase Mandate | ||||||
12. | Renewal of | 422,059,486 | 420,653,329 | 99.67 | 1,406,157 | 0.33 |
Shareholders' Mandate |
for Interested Person Transactions
Notes:
1. The following directors of the Company ("Directors") have abstained from voting on the following resolutions:
Name | Shareholding Interests | Resolution Number |
Danny Teoh | 129,825 | 3, 8, 12 |
Loh Chin Hua | 4,005,746 | 12 |
Till Vestring | 103,000 | 4, 8, 12 |
Veronica Eng | 56,000 | 5, 8, 12 |
Jean-Francois Manzoni | 123,000 | 8, 12 |
Teo Siong Seng | 35,483 | 8, 12 |
Tham Sai Choy | 170,570 | 8, 12 |
Penny Goh | 44,000 | 8, 12 |
Shirish Apte | 3,000 | 8, 12 |
Olivier Blum | 0 | 6, 8, 12 |
Jimmy Ng | 0 | 7, 8, 12 |
2. Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited has a direct interest in 371,408,292 shares held in the capital of the Company and has abstained from voting on Resolution 12.
- RE-APPOINTMENTOF DIRECTORS TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE
The Company wishes to announce that Ms Veronica Eng will, upon her re-election, continue to serve as Chairman of the Board Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee.
Ms Eng retired as a Founding Partner of Permira in late 2015. Over her 30-year career with Permira, Ms Eng held a number of key positions in the firm and had extensive experience in a wide range of roles in relation to its funds' investments across sectors and geographies. She served on the board of Permira and its Executive Committee, chaired the Investment Committee and was the Fund Minder to various Permira funds. In addition, she also had oversight of Permira's firm-wide risk management as well as its operations in Asia. She is also a Professor (Practice) at the National University of Singapore's Business School.
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The Board considers Ms Eng as an independent director for the purposes of Rule 704(8) of the Listing Manual.
With the abovementioned, the Audit Committee will continue to comprise all independent directors, namely:
- Mr Tham Sai Choy
- Ms Veronica Eng
- Mrs Penny Goh
- Mr Shirish Apte
- SCRUTINEERS
RHT Governance, Risk & Compliance (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. was appointed as scrutineers for the AGM.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
Caroline Chang / Samantha Teong
Company Secretaries
21 April 2023
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