HDIV Henderson Diversified Income Trust Plc

TIDMHDIV

RNS Number : 9919Y

Henderson Diversified Income TstPLC

08 January 2024

08 January 2024

Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800RV2228EO1JEN02

Results of First General Meeting

In connection with the proposals for a combination of the assets of Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc (the "Company") with Henderson High Income Trust plc by means of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme"), the Board is pleased to announce that the Resolutions which were put forward at the First General Meeting held today and voted on a poll have been approved by Shareholders.

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the resolutions are set out below and will also be published on the Company's website: www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com .

 
                                                                                             Votes 
                                 Votes for                                                cast (excl. 
                                   (incl.                 Votes            Total votes       votes         Votes 
 Resolution                    discretionary)     %      against     %         cast       withheld)(1)    withheld 
 1. To approve the 
  reclassification 
  of the shares in 
  the capital of 
  the Company as 
  shares with "A" 
  rights and shares 
  with "B" rights 
  and to approve 
  changes required 
  to the Company's 
  articles of association.      46,226,635      97.76   1,057,891   2.24   47,284,526        25.97        434,168 
                             ----------------  ------  ----------  -----  ------------  --------------  ---------- 
 2. To approve the 
  Scheme; further 
  amend the Company's 
  articles of association 
  in order to implement 
  the Scheme; and 
  to instruct the 
  Liquidators to 
  give effect to 
  the Scheme.                   46,303,036      97.77   1,057,891   2.23   47,360,927        26.01        357,767 
                             ----------------  ------  ----------  -----  ------------  --------------  ---------- 
 

(1) As a percentage of total voting rights

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at 6.30 p.m. on 4 January 2024 (182,072,717), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in order to vote at the First General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

The number of Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 187,434,303. There are 5,361,586 Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 182,072,717.

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of First General Meeting contained in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 12 December 2023 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com .

The Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 8 January 2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 9 January 2024. Following the reclassification of the Shares on 15 January 2024, the Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 16 January 2024.

Final interim dividend

On 8 December 2023 the Board announced that, subject to the passing of the Resolutions at the First General Meeting, a final interim dividend of 0.55 pence per Share in respect of the year ending 30 April 2024 would be paid to Shareholders (on the register as at close of business on 5 January 2024) on 15 January 2024. This condition has been satisfied.

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

 
For further information please 
 contact: 
Henderson Diversified Income     Contact via Janus Henderson 
 Trust plc 
Angus Macpherson 
Janus Henderson Investors 
 UK Limited                      +44 (0) 207 818 1818 
 Dan Howe (Head of Investment 
  Trusts) 
  Oliver Packard (Sales) 
 Harriet Hall (PR) 
J.P. Morgan Cazenove             +44 (0) 203 493 8000 
William Simmonds 
 Rupert Budge 
 

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