Rathbone Brothers Plc : Result of AGM

11 mai 2017

RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')
RESULTS OF THE 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
N OTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-sixth Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 8 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7AZ on Thursday 11 May 2017, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 7 April 2017) were passed on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 15 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were special resolutions.

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance . A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM .

The results of the poll were as follows:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes cast	Votes cast as a % of the voting capital	Withheld
1	To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016	41,267,109	99.94	23,101	0.06	41,290,210	81.45%	57,490
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2016	38,555,276	96.20	1,524,379	3.80	40,079,655	79.06%	1,268,045
3	To declare a final dividend of 36p per share for the year ended 31 December 2016	41,319,949	100.00	1,101	0.00	41,321,050	81.51%	26,650
4	To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director	41,159,189	99.92	34,032	0.08	41,193,221	81.25%	154,479
5	To re-elect Philip Howell as a director	41,180,192	99.80	84,203	0.20	41,264,395	81.39%	83,305
6	To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director	41,311,229	99.99	4,815	0.01	41,316,044	81.50%	31,656
7	To re-elect James Dean as a director	41,298,540	99.99	2,162	0.01	41,300,702	81.47%	46,998
8	To elect Sarah Gentleman as a director	41,295,940	99.99	2,162	0.01	41,298,102	81.46%	49,598
9	To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director	41,265,018	99.92	34,535	0.08	41,299,553	81.46%	48,147
10	To elect Jim Pettigrew as a director	40,283,499	99.91	36,794	0.09	40,320,293	79.53%	1,027,407
11	To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company	40,454,186	98.87	464,036	1.13	40,918,222	80.71%	429,478
12	To authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors	41,278,577	99.93	27,563	0.07	41,306,140	81.48%	41,560
13	To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	39,888,925	98.25	712,361	1.75	40,601,286	80.09%	746,414
14	To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares	39,431,880	95.45	1,879,553	4.55	41,311,433	81.49%	36,267
15	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights	40,703,522	98.55	598,648	1.45	41,302,170	81.47%	45,530
16	To further authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights regarding shares issued in connection with an acquisition or capital investment	36,911,698	89.36	4,394,828	10.64	41,306,526	81.48%	41,174
17	To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	40,494,219	98.01	820,281	1.99	41,314,500	81.49%	33,200
18	To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) or not less than 14 days' notice	40,875,827	98.95	434,673	1.05	41,310,500	81.49%	37,200

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes cast are expressed as a percentage of 50,696,817 ordinary shares.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Ali Johnson
Company Secretary

Tel: 020 7399 0326

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