VOLTA FINANCE LIMITED
Annual General Meeting 7 December 2022 - Voting Schedule
RESULTS OF PROXY VOTING RIGHTS RECEIVED
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD | TOTAL VOTES | |
(excl. votes | |||||
withheld) | |||||
1 | To adopt the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 July 2022, | 2,345,564 | 0 | 0 | 2,345,564 |
including the reports of the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") and the Auditor | (100%) | (0%) | |||
(together the "Accounts"). | |||||
2 | To re-appoint KPMG Channel Islands Limited of Glategny Court, Glategny Esplanade, St Peter | 2,345,196 | 0 | 368 | 2,345,196 |
Port, Guernsey GY1 1WR as the Company's Auditor to hold office until the conclusion of the next | (100%) | (0%) | |||
AGM. | |||||
3 | To authorise the Board to negotiate and fix the remuneration of the Auditor in respect of the year | 2,345,564 | 0 | 0 | 2,345,564 |
ending 31 July 2023. | (100%) | (0%) | |||
4 | To re-elect Graham Harrison as an Independent Director of the Company. | 2,337,271 | 0 | 8,293 | 2,337,271 |
(100%) | (0%) | ||||
5 | To re-elect Dagmar Kershaw as an Independent Director of the Company. | 2,337,271 | 0 | 8,293 | 2,337,271 |
(100%) | (0%)) | ||||
6 | To re-elect Stephen Le Page as an Independent Director of the Company. | 2,337,271 | 0 | 8,293 | 2,337,271 |
(100%) | (0%) | ||||
7 | To elect Yedau Ogoundele as an Independent Director of the Company. | 2,337,171 | 2,293 | 6,100 | 2,339,464 |
(99.90%) | (0.10%) | ||||
8 | To approve the quarterly dividend policy of paying approximately 8% of NAV per annum, absent of | 2,345,564 | 0 | 0 | 2,345,564 |
a notable change in circumstances with a dividend payment date in January, April, July and | (100%) | (0%) | |||
October. | |||||
SPECIAL BUSINESS - SPECIAL RESOLUTION | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD | TOTAL VOTES | |
(excl. votes | |||||
withheld) | |||||
9 | THAT in accordance with Article 5(7) of the Articles, the Board be and is hereby authorised to issue | 2,340,850 | 4,714 | 0 | 2,345,564 |
equity securities (within the meaning of the Articles) as if Article 5(2) of the Articles did not apply to | (99.98%) | (0.20%) | |||
any such issue, provided that this power shall be limited to the issue of up to a maximum number | |||||
of 3,658,058 Ordinary shares (being not more than 10% of the number of Ordinary shares in issue | |||||
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Annual General Meeting 8 December 2021 - Voting Schedule
as at the date of this notice) or such other number being not more than 10% of the Ordinary shares | ||||||
in issue at the date of the AGM, whether in respect of the sale of shares held as treasury shares, | ||||||
the issue of newly created shares or the grant of rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, | ||||||
shares which, in accordance with the Listing Rules, could only be issued at or above net asset value | ||||||
per share (unless offered pro rata to existing Shareholders or pursuant to further authorisation by | ||||||
Shareholders). This authority will expire on the conclusion of the next AGM of the Company unless | ||||||
previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a general meeting, save that the | ||||||
Company shall be entitled to make offers or agreements before the expiry of such power which | ||||||
would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors shall be | ||||||
entitled to allot equity securities pursuant to any such offer or agreement as if the power conferred | ||||||
hereby had not expired. | ||||||
SPECIAL BUSINESS - ORDINARY RESOLUTION | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD | TOTAL VOTES | ||
(excl. votes | ||||||
withheld) | ||||||
10 | THAT the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases, for | 2,345,546 | 18 | 0 | 2,345,564 | |
the purposes of Section 315 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended), of Ordinary | (99.99%) | (0.01%) | ||||
shares in the Company on such terms and in such manner as the Directors may from time to | ||||||
time determine, provided that: | ||||||
(a) | the maximum number of Ordinary shares hereby authorised to be acquired is 5,483,429, | |||||
representing not more than 14.99% of the issued Ordinary share capital of the Company as | ||||||
at the date of this notice; | ||||||
(b) | the minimum price (excluding expenses) payable by the Company for each Ordinary share | |||||
is €0.01. The maximum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for any such Ordinary | ||||||
share is the higher of (i) an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market | ||||||
quotations for an Ordinary share in the Company as derived from The London Stock | ||||||
Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on | ||||||
which such share is contracted to be purchased; and (ii) the amount stipulated by Article | ||||||
3(2) of the EU Buy-back and Stabilisation Regulation (2016/1052/EU) being the higher of | ||||||
the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid for an | ||||||
Ordinary share in the Company on the trading venues where the market purchases by the | ||||||
Company pursuant to the authority conferred by this resolution will be carried out (provided | ||||||
that limb (ii) shall not apply where the purchases would not bear the risk of breaching the | ||||||
prohibition on market abuse); | ||||||
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(c) the authority hereby conferred shall expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of | |||||
the Company unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general | |||||
meeting; and | |||||
(d) the Company may make a contract to purchase the Ordinary shares under the authority | |||||
hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority, which contract will or may be executed | |||||
wholly or partly after the expiry of such authority, and may purchase its Ordinary shares in | |||||
pursuance of any such contract. | |||||
11 | THAT, in accordance with Section 160 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended), | 2,334,052 | 11,144 | 368 | 2,345,196 |
the change to the basis of Director's remuneration agreed by the Board in 2017 and applied | (99.52%) | (0.48%) | |||
subsequently, be ratified. It should be noted that this change in basis did not result in an increase | |||||
in remuneration for any individual director. | |||||
12 | THAT, in accordance with Article 20(2) of the Articles, the individual Director's remuneration | 2,333,952 | 11,144 | 468 | 2,345,096 |
specified in such article be amended to 'not exceed €100,000' per annum. Such amendment is | (99.52%) | (0.48%) | |||
ratified, effective from 1 February 2017. | |||||
SPECIAL BUSINESS - SPECIAL RESOLUTION | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD | TOTAL VOTES | |
(excl. votes | |||||
withheld) | |||||
13 | THAT, in accordance with Section 42 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended), | 2,342,803 | 0 | 2,761 | 2,342,803 |
the draft form of articles of incorporation, available on the Company's website | (100%) | (0%) | |||
(https://www.voltafinance.com/investors/other-documents), be approved and adopted as the | |||||
new articles of incorporation of the Company (the "New Articles") in substitution for and to the | |||||
entire exclusion of the existing articles of incorporation. | |||||
In addition, a copy of the proposed New Articles of the Company, together with a copy of the | |||||
existing Articles marked to show the changes being proposed, will also be available for | |||||
inspection on request at the Company's registered office from 31 October 2022 until the | |||||
conclusion of the meeting. | |||||
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