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28 May
2024
abrdn Property Income Trust
Limited
(a non-cellular company
limited by shares incorporated in Guernsey with registration number
41352)
LEI Number:
549300HHFBWZRKC7RW84
Results of General Meeting
held on 28 May 2024
On 14 May 2024, abrdn Property
Income Trust Limited's ("API" or the "Company") announced that a circular ("Circular")
to convene a general meeting of API Shareholders (the "General Meeting") had been published
and sent to Shareholders to allow them to consider and, if thought
fit, approve a change to API's investment policy in order to
implement a Managed Wind-Down.
API announces the result of the
General Meeting of the Company held today. Shareholders who
together represented a majority of the API Shares voted at
the General Meeting voted to approve the
ordinary resolution to adopt the New Investment Policy of the
Company.
Voting results of the General Meeting
The table below sets out the results
of the vote at the General Meeting:
|
Number of API Shares voted
***
|
% of API Shares voted*
|
For
|
125,639,338
|
95.65
|
Against
|
5,717,221
|
4.35
|
Withheld**
|
134,148
|
-
|
Total
|
131,356,559
|
100
|
* All percentages rounded to two decimal
places
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is
not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or
'Against' the ordinary resolution.
*** Includes discretionary
votes.
Capitalised terms in this
announcement, unless otherwise defined, have the same meanings as
set out in the Circular.
Managed Wind-Down
Under the proposed Managed Wind-Down
process, the Company will be managed with the intention of
realising all of the assets in its portfolio in an orderly manner,
with a view to repaying borrowings and making timely returns of
capital to Shareholders whilst aiming to obtain the best achievable
value for the Company's assets at the time of their
realisations.
While the timeline for disposals
will depend on the market environment, realisation of all of the
Company's assets and the return of proceeds to API Shareholders is
expected to take place over an 18-36 month period, assuming assets
are realised as sales of individual assets or groups of assets,
rather than via a sale of the whole portfolio, which is also a
possibility.
At an appropriate point in the
Managed Wind-Down process, API will seek Shareholders' approval to
appoint a liquidator to wind up the Company and to cancel the
Company's admission to trading on the Main Market of the London
Stock Exchange. Trading in API Shares will no longer be possible
from that time.
Enquiries
abrdn Property Income
Trust
James Clifton-Brown
(Chair)
via Winterflood
Jason Baggaley (Fund
Manager)
+44 7801 039 463
Lazard (Financial Adviser to API)
Patrick
Long
+44 20 7187 2000
Jolyon Coates
Winterflood (Corporate Broker to API)
Neil
Langford
+44 20 3100
0160
H/Advisors Maitland (Communications Adviser to
API)
James
Benjamin
+44 20 7379 5151
Important notices
Lazard & Co., Limited
("Lazard"), which is authorised
and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct
Authority, is acting exclusively as financial adviser to API and no
one else in connection with the matters referred to in this
announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than API
for providing the protections afforded to clients of Lazard nor for
providing advice in relation to the matters referred to in this
announcement. Neither Lazard nor any of its affiliates owes or
accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether
direct or indirect, whether in contract, in tort, under statute or
otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Lazard in
connection with this announcement, any statement contained herein
or otherwise.
Winterflood Securities Limited
("Winterflood"), which is
authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the
United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for API and no-one else in
connection with the matters set out in this document and will not
be responsible to anyone other than API for providing the
protections afforded to customers of Winterflood or for providing
advice in relation to the matters set out in this document. Neither
Winterflood nor any of its affiliates owes or accepts any duty,
liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect,
whether in contract, in tort, under statute or otherwise) to any
person who is not a client of Winterflood in connection with this
document, any statement contained herein or otherwise.
Capitalised terms used in this
announcement have the meanings given to them in the
Circular.